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1900 FRISBEE
One of history’s most famous
inventors, Albert Einstein, once
said: “If at first an idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for
it.” With this quote in mind, we
show you the inventions below.
The story of the Frisbee started by the Frisbie
Baking Company of Bridgeport that delivered
pies to many colleges in New England. Students
soon discovered that tossing and catching the
empty pie tins was super fun; they played with
them endlessly. Many colleges (including Yale!)
are still fighting about being the inventors place
of the Frisbee.
1927 CHEESE SLICER
On a hot summer day in Norway… Thor
BjØrklund was happy to find ‘Gouda-cheese’ in
his lunch-box, however the cheese did melt due
to the high temperature. Frustrated as he was
Thor found the cheese slicer, so next time his wife
could present him slices that wouldn’t melt.
1946 BIKINI
None of the inventions above could rely on as
much resistance than the two-piece-swimsuit.
Just a couple of days before the bikini was introduced, nuclear tests were performed at “Atol Bikini”. The French hoped their invention would be
as explosive as those tests and named the bikini
after them. As a result models in Paris resisted to
show the swimwear.
Words by Veerle de Boer, Looks by Constantijn Pennekamp
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