Patented: History of Inventions

Filing Cabinets: How They Changed the World

Mar 1, 2023

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Is There a Machine That Does the Thinking for You?

01:35

What Is the First Filing Cabinet?

01:48

Is the Filing Cabinet Just a File Cabinet?

02:11

Introduction

4min

How Did You Get Started With the Filing Cabinet?

3min

The Invention of the Filing Cabinet

2min

Is the Filing Cabinet the New World of Rigidity?

3min

Is There a Machine That Does the Thinking for You?

2min

What Is the First Filing Cabinet?

2min

What's in the Filing Cabinet?

2min

What's the Dewey Decimal System?

2min

What Happens When You File Things in a File Cabinet?

2min

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The Filing Cabinet

2min

11.

Is the Filing Cabinet Really Important?

3min

12.

Is the Filing Cabinet the Ground Zero of the Information Age?

2min

13.

Is the Filing Cabinet Just a File Cabinet?

2min

14.

The Filing Cabinet

3min

It’s perhaps the most overlooked invention of all time. Consigned to a forgotten corner in the basement of history. The Filing Cabinet.

Yet the humble Filing Cabinet was at the centre of an information revolution and became critical to the infrastructure of 20th century nation states and businesses. One sign of the deep mark it has left on us are the names we give things on our computers - Files, Folders, Tabs.

To help us restore the filing cabinet to its rightful place is Craig Robertson, author of The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information.

Produced and edited by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long

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Patented: History of Inventions

Filing Cabinets: How They Changed the World

Is There a Machine That Does the Thinking for You?

What Is the First Filing Cabinet?

Is the Filing Cabinet Just a File Cabinet?

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