Observed arrival · 2026-11-03
Things Atlas: a map of everyday objects
A bilingual interactive atlas places 116 everyday objects on a world map and timeline, tracing invention, patenting, mass production and popularization.
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- Readers tracing the histories of everyday objects
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- Entries distinguish invention, patenting, mass production and popularization, with some dates explicitly flagged as disputed.
Field notes
The page groups entries across BCE and numbered-year ranges, with a corresponding timeline scale and an English-Chinese language switch. Its 116-item list runs from silk (3500 BCE) to the smartwatch (2015); some records carry an explicit disputed marker, and a visible control filters for those entries.
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