The key challenge in building a better carton was how to protect each egg individually. Strides toward improvement were made in 1867, when John and George Stevens patented a transport case with ...

The Egg Carton - September 16, 2014 Fergus Tomlin in Smithers B.C. shares the story behind Joseph Coyle's egg carton, a design that solved an on-going dilemma for a frustrated deliveryman with a ...

The standard cardboard egg carton has been around a long, long time, basically because it does a serviceable job of keeping eggs from getting broken. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be ...

The egg carton was in fact the invention of a Canadian – a 40-year-old newspaper magnate by the name of Joseph Coyle, who first conceived of an alternative to the then-standard practice of ...

Hungarian design student Otília Erdélyi has redesigned the egg carton and come up with a more economical and more environmentally friendly design.

His design was the first egg carton, offering a measure of protection for this most breakable of commodities. Coyle’s cardboard creation was first made by hand before a machine was invented to ...