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Nuts and Bolts

99% Invisible

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The Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way

Roma recently wrote a book that's actually called Nuts and Bolts, Seven Small Inventions that Changed the World in a Big Way. She takes ordinary objects like the nail, spring, and pump and shows us how these inventions were extraordinary feats of engineering in their own right. Roma: "It just reminds you that great engineering, great design can be really simple and small"

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