Author: Jessica Leigh Hester / Source: Atlas Obscura
Mundane Madness is a month-long quest to anoint the most overlooked everyday objects. Also check out the original call for entries, and how Round 1 went down.
More than 6,400 readers voted in the first round of Mundane Madness, our bracket challenge to celebrate the most wondrous inventions that don’t often get their due.
Some of the matchups were nail-biters. Work ground to a halt in the Atlas Obscura newsroom while we bickered over the relative merits of glass and paper. “Microscopes, telescopes!” said Abi Inman, our audience development manager. “Hugely instrumental to our understanding of the universe.” Fair point. But then again, “none of those ideas were shared before the printing…
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