- ISBN: 9780152014216
- ISBN10: 0152014217
Toilets, Toasters & Telephones: the How and Why of Everyday Objects
- List Price: $20.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Browndeer Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2000
Description:
Who invented the toilet? How did the telephone get its shape? Why are the letters on a computer keyboard arranged the way they are? Who decides?
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In this fascinating history of everyday objects, Susan Goldman Rubin explains how manufacturers realized that well-designed products made more money; why the shape of an object depends on the materials and technology available; and that some designs just can't be improved upon.
Filled with entertaining anecdotes, remarkable facts, and definitely user-friendly, Toilets, Toasters, & Telephones, with 30 photographs and 13 elegant drawings by Elsa Warnick, is a delightful narrative of the history of some of the familiar objects we see all around us and the inspired geniuses who are responsible for what they look like.
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