Every answer leaves a crumb that leads to the next question.
It started with my son asking whether I used to write on a typewriter. Each gallery here begins with a question like that, then wanders: from a games console to a Viking king, from a goose feather to the keys under your fingers.
Galleries
20 exhibitsPick up a crumb
- LB-NAM-001 Xbox The Xbox name was a working nickname meant to be replaced. Marketing tested better names, and the placeholder beat them all.
- LB-NAM-004 James Bond, ornithologist Ian Fleming named his spy after the author of a bird book, because it was the plainest name he could find.
- LB-QTK-006 Upper case and lower case Printers kept metal letters in two wooden cases: capitals in the upper one, small letters in the lower one, closer to hand.
- LB-QTK-009 Mistake Out and Tipp-Ex A Texas secretary invented correction fluid in her kitchen, and a German inventor made correction paper. Her son became one of the Monkees.