We tend to think of everyday objects as if they've always looked more or less the way they do now. A vacuum cleaner is a vacuum cleaner, a refrigerator is a refrigerator, and a telephone is pretty difficult to mistake for anything else. Go back far enough, however, and things get considerably stranger. Before manufacturers figured out the designs we're familiar with today, ordinary household products could be enormous, complicated, or just completely unrecognizable. Some required multipl...
We tend to think of everyday objects as if they've always looked more or less the way they do now. A vacuum cleaner is a vacuum cleaner, a refrigerator is a refrigerator, and a telephone is pretty difficult to mistake for anything else. Go back far enough, however, and things get considerably stranger. Before manufacturers figured out the designs we're familiar with today, ordinary household products could be enormous, complicated, or just completely unrecognizable. Some required multipl...
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