The Spork: An Inventor's Bizarre LegacyThe man behind your utensil also designed a safety coffin.
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The Secret Life of ObjectsMeet the eccentric 19th-century polymath who patented the modern spork. Dr. Samuel W. Francis was a doctor, novelist, and philanthropist whose wild imagination produced a range of strange inventions, from a self-opening coffin to a typewriter that looked like a piano. His spork, combining a spoon, fork, and knife, was just one of many creations from a mind that saw problems—and solutions—everywhere.
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