Drink Me
How Americans came to have cup holders in their cars.
Click on images for an expanded view.
MYSLATE
MySlate is a new tool that lets you track your favorite parts of Slate. You can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and more.
Tornado Survivor Finds Her Missing Dog in the Rubble of Her Home During a TV Interview
Will the IRS's Tea Party Profiling Convince Conservatives That All Profiling Is Wrong?
How did Suharto steal $35 billion?
Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic professor of civil engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of a dozen books on engineering and design, the latest of which is The Toothpick: Technology and Culture.
Photographs of: drive-in fromCorbis; 4Runner cup holders and Audi cup holders by Lori Johnson.
Click here to load comments.