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		sockfish on Dec 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Corrugated-paper-making machine patent (1918) This experiment has been done in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in the 90s. It gained a tonne of publicity but it did not end up getting widely adopted. Most homeless people (understandably) feared getting stigmatized if they were spotted sleeping in one. https://museumrotterdam.nl/collectie/item/71471-1-3

frostburg on Dec 25, 2021 [–]

Those looking like tented coffins probably didn't help. I'd really like one of the Fuller ones (from the Fifties!) I mentioned above.

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