Michael Bierut celebrates the elegantly simple design of the Brannock...
kottke.org     May 15, 2008          

Michael Bierut celebrates the elegantly simple design of the Brannock Foot-Measuring Device. Charles F. Brannock only invented one thing in his life, and this was it. The son of a Syracuse, New York, shoe magnate, Brannock became interested in improving the primitive wooden measuring sticks that... [read full story]                

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