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For most of the twentieth century an American car seated three in front. Not uncomfortably and not as an emergency measure - as the design intent. The seat…
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The building came on a truck, and that explains almost everything else. Here are ten.
1. The Counter Was the Point and the Booths Were the Overflow
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The Stripe Was a Cassette Tape
The brown band on the back of the old cards was magnetic tape, in the same sense that a cassette was magnetic tape, and…
Named after the thing it barely does, and placed under the window deliberately. Here are sixteen.
1. The Name Is Wrong
Only a minority of the heat leaving a typical…
The Problem Is Harder Than It Sounds
A machine taking money has to answer a question that a person answers effortlessly and unconsciously: is this a real coin, and which…
Three Pins, Three Completely Different Jobs
It looks like a symmetrical arrangement of three identical things, and it is nothing of the kind. The three pins are doing three unrelated…