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Bic Cristal
1950
Invention
The moment credited to one person and owed to many.
- 16
- in design
- 9:16
- average
- 148 min
- in total
- 45
- across the network
All briefs
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Charles and Ray Eames
Design is not style — it is constraint-driven making, tested in splints before seats.
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Geodesic dome
A dome that bears weight by refusing walls — not a shelter, but a stress map made solid.
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IDEO
1991
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Paper clip
The Gem paper clip succeeded because it solved a physical problem; Vaaler’s did not — and nothing else matters.
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Trinitron
Sony
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Walkman
Sony Design Team · 1979
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Zippo
George G. Blaisdell · 1932
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Anglepoise lamp
George Carwardine · 1933
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Ballpoint pen
László Bíró · 1888
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Buckminster Fuller
Fuller’s domes worked—but his patent didn’t cite the man who built one first.
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Instant camera
Edwin Land / Polaroid
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Post-it note
Spencer Silver & Art Fry / 3M
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Richard Sapper
Sapper didn’t make objects—he engineered revelations.
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Rubik's Cube
Ernő Rubik · 1974
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Swiss Army knife
Karl Elsener