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Thrilling Tales of Human Ingenuity: The Lazy Susan

“Necessity is the mother of invention.”

– Unknown

The products of our ingenuity surround us and construct the framework of the modern world. Smartphones. Computers. Cheese that sprays from a can. Each of these items evolved in response to an obvious human need.

But what of the Lazy Susan? What crisis faced a past generation and spurred the development of this miracle of rotational technology?

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A Lazy Susan
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Let us open the eye of our imagination and see the world as it might have been during those dark times…

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