Solderless protoboard
The title of this page may need to be changed. There is a lot of loose usage of protoboard, proto-board, breadboard.... In any case they all seem to come back in some way to more casual, one off methods of circuit construction. Breadboard, I have heard, originated in the early days of electronics when the wooden kitchen breadboard was re-purposed to be the foundation of a circuti. Cooks beware. Perhaps their highest form was in the Atwater Kent Breadboard Receivers The online Museum of Atwater Kent Breadboard Receivers and Atwater Kent Breadboard Receivers).
There are many links to the topic:
Fairly closely related to bread/proto boards are development boaards. Typically they have some basic circuitry ( a power supply and a microprocessor for example ) and a area for prototyping. See Microcontroller#Development_Boards.
