Article ID: CBB012540070

The Better Clothspin (Fall 2006)

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Why do inventors keep trying to improve a technology that is not only supremely simple but-for most of us-obsolete?

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Authors & Contributors
Wohleber, Curt
Rose, Alexander
Chiles, James R.
DeWalt, Bryan
Lamm, Michael
Möllers, Nina
Journals
American Heritage of Invention and Technology
Sociologie
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Publishers
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Leuven University Press
Concepts
Things; objects in the world
Inventors and invention
Material culture
Household technology
Steam Shovels
Consumer Goods
People
Thew, Richard P.
Tupper, Earl
Lowe, Edward
Christensen, Neils
Corning, Erastus
Glidden, Joseph F.
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Renaissance
21st century
16th century
Places
United States
Ohio (U.S.)
Europe
Belgium
Institutions
American Patent Agency
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M Corporation)
General Electric
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