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#industrialdesign — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🎒🏞️ The Smithsonian traces backpack #design from a two-million-year-old practice to Ötzi’s hazel-and-board frame around 3300 BCE, then follows improvements through a #CivilWar cavalry officer’s patented canvas-and-metal pack, a #Duluth #canoe-hauling design, #aluminum-frame #mountaineering models, and the nylon #JanSport that made the #backpack a school staple. Roughly 450 million are sold annually.

    👉 smithsonianmag.com/innovation/

    #backpack #history #invention #hiking #science #socialstudies #engineering #innovation #industrialdesign #school #outdoors #otzi

  2. Relativity Space raises $500 million as its sets sights on the industrialization of Mars - 3D-printed rocket startup Relativity Space has closed $500 million in Series D funding (making offi... - feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcr #emerging-technologies #tigerglobalmanagement #scienceandtechnology #industrialdesign #relativityspace #fundings&exits #bailliegifford #lockheedmartin #u.s.government #iconiqcapital #unitedstates #3dprinting #aerospace #longbeach #robotics