Overview

David Lindsay tours the typical home to examine the most taken-for-granted objects, and finds incredible stories behind everyday items. From the intercom, the letterbox, the microwave oven, pencils, ballpoint pens, sticky 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.

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""An ideal introduction to the world of inventors and their inventions."" - Booklist ""Lindsay's writing is excellent and often delightfully humorous."" - Library Journal

An ideal introduction to the world of inventors and their inventions. - Booklist Lindsay's writing is excellent and often delightfully humorous. - Library Journal

Author Information

David Lindsay is the author of Madness in the Making and The Patent Files: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Invention. He lives in New York City.

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