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yuti — October 23, 2007 / 5:31 pm
Whatever its intended function, an object’s from alone often suggests new and more imaginative forms, as the stick did the fork and the shell the spoon. It is no less the case with manufactured things, and few artifacts have been more formed, de-formed, and re-formed than the common paper clip, as a survey once made clear. Attribution of the study and its follow-ups has become as confused as the origins of the objects itself, credit going variously to, among others, Lyold’s of London, “relentlessly inquisitive Germans” at a Munich manufacturing firm, and Howard Sufrin heir to Pitsburgh family business that made Steel City Gem Paper Clips. According to Sufrin, who claims to have conducted the original study in 1958, three of every ten paper were lost, and only one in ten was ever used to hold paper together. Other uses included toothpicks; fingernail and era cleaners; makeshift fasteners for nylon, bras, blouses; tie clasps; chips in card games; markers in children’s games; decorative chains and weapons(Petroski, 1992).
I’m questioning, what if we are going to the future, will we used thing as they use to be?
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