Quartz·3 min read·easy
20 simple inventions that took far too long to exist
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This article explores the historical delay in the adoption of simple, everyday inventions like wheeled luggage and can openers. It highlights how technology often exists long before it is applied to common consumer goods.
From wheeled luggage to the can opener, these ordinary objects appeared decades or centuries after the technology to make them already existed
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