Albert Stallion imagined whiteboards while working at Alliance during the 1960s. Partnership (presently known as PolyVision) created enameled steel for building cladding, however Stallion noted it could likewise possibly be utilized as a composition surface. Stallion later left Alliance to frame his own whiteboard creation organization, MagiBoards.

Entryway sign to the workplaces of Magiboards at The Cut in Waterloo, London, in 1966. Made of enameled steel

Whiteboards turned out to be economically accessible in the mid 1960s, however didn't turn out to be broadly utilized until 30 years after the fact. Early whiteboards should have been cleaned with a sodden material and markers tended to abandon marks, even subsequent to deleting the board.Dry-eradicate markers for whiteboards were designed in 1975.

Whiteboards began winding up generally utilized by organizations in the mid 1990s.They turned out to be increasingly basic in study halls during the 1990s because of worries over medical issues in youngsters with residue hypersensitivities and the potential for chalk residue to harm PCs. By the late 1990s, about 21% of American study halls had changed over from blackboards to whiteboards.