From the 'Clapper' to arsenic wallpaper, why objects go extinct - CNN

A group of professors, historians, artists and curators explores why objects become obsolete, and what it tells us about the worlds they existed in.

design The "Clapper", literal snail mail, anti-gravity underwear -- there are reasons why all of these objects are extinct. But now, a new book is exhuming them from the trash heap of history. In "… [+6447 chars]

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