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Introduction: Barbara Penner, Adrian Forty, Olivia Horsfall Turner and Miranda Critchley
Acoustic Location Device: Bryony Quinn
Action Office Acoustic Area Conditioner: The ‘Maskitball’: Kristen Gallerneaux
Air-curtain Roof: Laurent Stalder
All-plastic House: Carola Hein
Arsenic Wallpaper: Lucinda Hawksley
Arundel Print: Tanya Harrod
Asbestos-cement Rondavel: Hannah le Roux
Ashtray: Catherine Slessor
Atmospheric Railway: Niall McLaughlin
Cab-fare Map: Paul Dobraszczyk
Central Heating: Mario Carpo
Chaparral 2J: The ‘Sucker Car’: Eirik A. G. Bøhn
Chatelaine: Iris Moon
The Clapper: Charles Rice
Close-constraint Key: Ben Vandenput
Concorde: Thomas McQuillan
ConvAirCar: Emily M. Orr
Cybernetic Anthropomorphic Machines: Lydia Kallipoliti
Cybersyn: Hugo Palmarola and Pedro Ignacio Alonso
Cyclegraph: Barbara Penner
Cyclops 1: Thandi Loewenson
Dougong: Guang Yu Ren and Edward Denison
Dymaxion House: Barry Bergdoll
Edison’s Anti-gravitation Under-clothing: Bob Nicholson
Electrotype Pattern: Angus Patterson
Fisher-Price Peg Figures: Mark Morris
Flashcube: Harriet Harriss
Flying Boat: David Edgerton
Glass Lantern Slide: Daniel M. Abramson
Globe of Mars: Lucy Garrett
High-pressure Water Mains: Adrian Forty
House Environment: Eszter Steierho‰er
‘Hummingbird’ Taxi: Lucinda Hawksley
Incandescent Light Bulb: Mari Hvattum
Integrated Radio/TV Cabinet: Anders V. Munch
Invacar: The ‘Invalid Carriage’: Elizabeth Guffey
Kodachrome: Tacita Dean
Letraset: Robin Kinross
Leucotome: Carsten Timmermann
Manchester Pail System: ‘Dolly Vardens’: Barbara Penner
Mechanical Polygraph: Danielle S. Willkens
Medical Wax Model: Thomas Kador
Memo: Adrian Forty
Milk Spoon: Hugo Palmarola
MiniDisc: Priya Khanchandani
Minitel: Shahed Saleem
Moon Towers: Bryony Quinn
Nikini: Rachel Siobhán Tyler
‘No Nonsense’ Fountain Pen: Pippo Ciorra
North Bucks Monorail City: Gillian Darley
Notgeld: Tom Wilkinson
Oil from Coal: David Edgerton
Optical Telegraph: David Trotter
Paper Aeroplane Ticket: Gökçe Günel
Paper Dress: Olivia Horsfall Turner
Pasilalinic-sympathetic Compass: Richard Taws
Phase-change Chemical Heat-storage Barrel: Daniel Barber
Player Piano: Hal Foster
Pneumatic Postal System: Jacob Paskins
Polaroid SX-70: Deyan Sudjic
Public Standards of Length: David Rooney
Pyrophone: Tim Boon
Realistic Wax Mannequin: Maude Bass-Krueger
Rotring, Letratone, MiniCAD: Tony Fretton
Scaphander: ‘Man-boat’: Steven Connor
Scarificator: Thomas Kador
Serving Hatch: Tim Ainsworth Anstey
Sinclair C5: Simon Sadler
Skirt Grip: Amy de la Haye
Slide Rule: Adrian Forty
Slotted Screwdriver: Richard Wentworth
Space Frame: Catherine Slessor
Stanley 55 Combination Plane: Nikos Magouliotis
Telephone Table: Edwin Heathcote
Teletype: James Purdon
Théâtrophone: Carlotta Darò
Think City Electric Vehicle: Kjetil Fallan
Trombe Wall: Paul Bouet
T-shirt Plastic Bag: Johanna Agerman Ross
Ultratemp® Roasting Rack: Christian Parreno
UV-radiated Artificial Beach: Maarten Liefooghe
Vertical Filing Cabinet: Zeynep Çelik Alexander
Water Bag: Sarah Bell
Writing Case: Barry Curtis
Zeppelin: Jeremy Myerson
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