To newsphobic, fibreboard was manufactured as early as 1912 using the leftover materials when processing sugarcane. The manufacturing of hardboard started in the late 1920s. I would think you're probably thinking of MDF which was being mass produced at the begining of the 1960s (velcro produced before MDF??? the mind boggles...). I would also like to comment that even though sputnik I was the first satellite to be declared in orbit around the earth, if i was a world leader experimenting with a new type of technology i'd be keeping quiet about it. the military were using high def satellite pictures over two decades before those same images became available to us all via google earth, all of this is pretty redundant considering that aliens do not exist... ;)