Small innovation but great influence

36 types of daily supplies, quietly serving people as 'anonymous heroes' are being selected by the London Science Museum.

On this occasion, visitors will have the opportunity to learn the idea of ​​inventing seemingly simple objects but have a great influence in our lives such as elastic band, food tins (cans), paper clips, egg box (shatterproof) .

Specific examples are insulated packaging invented by Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes through the Sealed Air Company in the 1950s, a few years later it became an important packaging for IBM to preserve computers in excess Shipping process, delivery. It is a flexible plastic wrapping paper with small air bags that are arranged regularly on both surfaces that, when not in use, can squeeze these air bags to create pleasurable sounds. There are more than 95,000 fans of this type of wrapping paper via Facebook.

The triangle or oval paper clip with various materials patented by Samuel B Fay in 1867 was widely promoted in 1894. It still proves effective, and on Facebook has 13,000 members who admire this little gadget.

The modest elastic band made of rubber with good resilience is an invention from England, the patent was granted to Stephen Perry in 1845, and no one has ever seen it ever since. Royal Mail has always chosen red elastic band because they think this color makes items and parcels easy to detect.

According to the Daily Mail , Emperor Napoleon of France left an idea when he announced a 12,000 franc award to anyone who found a food preservation solution to protect soldiers' health. And the cans with the airtight metal cans contained in the food were created by Nicholas Appert in 1810. However, at that time it was quite inconvenient because soldiers had to use their sword. Statistics show that the British consume more than 20 million cans of food annually.

The clamp that helped to hang the clothes without wind was the invention of David M Smith in 1853. Almost its shape has not changed ever since whether made of wood or other material.

Car headlights were Percy Shaw's idea when he looked at cat eyes in 1934. He then founded Reflecting Roadstuds to produce this kind of product to help the doctors stay awake at night. dark.

The hanger for clothes is an American idea named Albert J Parkhouse. He was so fed up with the clothes that had left the mess in the room, so he used a bent zinc wire to form a hanger that we often use today.

Missing a bleeding hand, everyone needed a small piece of personal tape , which was launched in 1920 by Earle Dickson, Johnson & Johnson received and launched.

Before 1911, Americans often complained because the eggs in the cartons were too high when they were delivered. The editor of British Columbia called on people to find remedies and then the foam box containing 8 eggs was born.

The convenient container for transporting goods across the sea and through tractors was a fairly recent invention in 1956, by Malcolm McLean.

Tea in the filter bag dipped in hot water for quick drinking was born in 1904 by Thomas Sullivan, whose original idea was to check the quality of each batch of products.