Tue. 11/30 - How Mark Twain Invented the Bra Clasp

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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How Mark Twain invented the bra clasp. Kinda. Plus, beavers doing the work of million dollar machines to restore land and prevent wildfires––in a fraction of the time and for a fraction of the cost. And a new twist has emerged in the McDonald’s milkshake machine lawsuit saga. Sponsors: Tentree, Use code KOTTKE to get 15% off at tentree.com Lendtable, Use code KOTTKE at Lendtable.com to get an extra $50 added to your Lendtable balance Links: Mark Twain disliked suspenders so much that he invented the bra clasp. (That’s right.) (Literary Hub) Mark Twain, Scrapbook Innovator (West Virginia University Libraries) Celebrity Invention: Mark Twain's Elastic-Clasp Brassiere Strap (The Atlantic) How Mark Twain’s Hatred of Suspenders Drove Him to Invent (Smithsonian Magazine) The Facts in the Case of Mark Twain's Vest Strap (Journal of the Patent Office Society, 1939) Curious Questions: Did Mark Twain really invent the bra strap? (Country Life) A dry California creek bed looked like a wildfire risk. Then the beavers went to work (Sacramento Bee) The McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hacking Saga Has a New Twist (Wired) New details in the McDonald's ice cream machine hacking lawsuit (The Takeout) McDonald's Ice Cream Machine Drama Gets Messier as Restraining Order Issued | Food & Wine (Food and Wine) Fri. 04/23 - A McShake Up: The Battle Over McDonald's Ice Cream Machines (Kottke Ride Home) Thu. 09/02 - What Is Grimace & Why Are Hyperlinks Blue? (Kottke Ride Home) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	welcome to the cocky ride home for tuesday November 30th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird today.
0:42.7	How Mark Twain invented the braclasp, kind of. Plus, beavers doing the work of million-dollar machines to restore land and prevent wildfires in a fraction of the time and for
0:55.4	a fraction of the cost.
0:57.5	And a new twist has emerged in the McDonald's milkshake machine lawsuit saga.
1:03.7	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:09.4	Today is Mark Twain's birthday, having been born in Missouri in 1835 as Samuel Clemens,
1:17.1	so I thought we should take a moment to honor one of his most significant contributions to society.
1:23.7	No, not the adventures of Tom Sawyer, or even his description of fingerprinting as a method for solving crimes before it was a common strategy, which is true, by the way.
1:34.8	No, no, I am talking about Mark Twain's invention of the braw clasp.
1:41.1	Yes, you heard that right. Mark Twain invented the bra clasp. So Mark Twain was a big
1:48.2	fan of innovation. He was friends with both Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. He claimed to be the
1:54.4	first person in Boston to own a telephone for private use and was also one of the first writers to use a typewriter to write a
2:02.5	full book. There even exists one surviving film of Mark Twain that was shot in 1909 by Edison
2:09.4	himself. As for his contribution to the forensic use of fingerprinting, there was a precedent
2:16.5	of fingerprinting in ancient Babylon as well as in
2:19.4	ancient China, but those were pretty much unknown to 19th century Westerners.
2:24.6	Twain's description of identifying a murderer via a thumbprint in his 1883 memoir, Life on the
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