Review
"An ideal introduction to the world of inventors and their inventions."
--Booklist
--Booklist
"Lindsay's writing is excellent and often delightfully humorous."
--Library Journal
--Library Journal
Book Description
Take a look around you--every little object and product has its own story to tell, and here are the most fascinating. (SEE 2 QUOTES.)
From the Back Cover
Take a look around you - every little object and product in your home has its own story to tell, and here are the most fascinating. David Lindsay tours the typical American home to examine the most taken-for-granted objects, and finds incredible stories behind everyday items.
From the intercom, the mailbox, the microwave oven, pencils, ballpoint pens, Scotch tape, and Post-its to the screw thread, the yo-yo, blue jeans, zippers, and even condoms, here are the fascinating stories of the quotidian objects whose history is little known.
From the intercom, the mailbox, the microwave oven, pencils, ballpoint pens, Scotch tape, and Post-its to the screw thread, the yo-yo, blue jeans, zippers, and even condoms, here are the fascinating stories of the quotidian objects whose history is little known.
About the Author
David Lindsay is the author of Madness in the Making: The Triumphant Rise and Untimely Fall of America's Show Inventors and The Patent Files: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Invention. He has contributed to publications such as The Wall Street Journal, American Heritage, The Village Voice, Biography, and New York Press.
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