Sorry to burst your bubble: The inventors of Bubble Wrap, the pop-able plastic that we all know and love, didn’t set out to make wallpaper. That story about air bubbles trapped between two shower curtains? It might have lost something in translation.

This true tale involves a honeymoon interrupted by the Black Tuesday stock market crash, an escape from Paris before the Nazi invasion, and the search for the perfect raincoat.

Howard Fielding, son of one of the partners who spent a decade on their dream, tells the story as he did for the History Channel's "Mega-Brands That Built America."