the Giant Wheel o’ Damage, used to test packaging so that your packages would make it through the railway delivery of 1920, as unharmed as possible, according to an April 17, 1920 report in The Traffic World

The Container Club of Chicago, an association of “corrugated and solid fibre box manufacturers,” used this “drum box testing machine”  designed by the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory, a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture established in 1910, and installed at the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research, now the Carnegie Institute of Technology at the University of Pittsburgh.

In a Feb. 5. 1921 advertisement, the Container Club of Chicago urged shippers to “send a case of your product on this trip. Give it the jars, bumps and knocks it encounters from draymen, freight handlers, rough riding freight cars, the shock of quick stopping of heavy equipment, etc. In five minutes a haul of 2,000 miles is actually simulated by means of a large, hollow revolving drum on the inside of which are scientifically constructed hazards to give the case the severe test it would get in actual transit.” The goal was to reduce damage to packages that could lead to costly claims.

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