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| 2007: Swedish Innovations (Illustrations - Sara Lund) |
Two very useful inventions probably in your tool box. The always useful adjustable spanner, A wall plug, usually referred to as a rawlplug in the UK, a brand name that became a generic term. The Swedes call them a Thorsmanpluggen, invented in Sweden in 1964 by Oswald Thorsman together with their colour coding, red being a medium size general purpose plug.
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| 2007: World of Invention (Illustrations - Peter Till) |
Bridge Building in Thomas Telford's imagination. Railway locomotion
Communications. Television
E Mail, Internet and the World Wide Web. Still to come - Space Tourism to the moon
Sunday Stamps theme - Celebrating Inventions - See It On A Postcard
6 comments:
Amazing what one can learn from a stamp. I had no idea of what to call a "bucha" (that's the portuguese word) in English, let alone in Swedish....
That world of invention set is lovely. A far cry from the TV/Rockband/movie etc junk that Royal Mail is now so keen on....
What? Our wall plugs (tac in Catalan) are not colour coded. That would be really useful!
The World of Invention series of stamps is cool (and new to me).
What a great set the British one. I love the railways as smoke!
As others have commented, that Royal Mail set is fantastic
The world of invention series is nicely comical! I've only seen yellow and red wall plugs, and never thought about them being coloiur coded for size, but it makes sense now that I know.
Those are amazing stamps! I don't know the term rawlplug, they are just wall plugs or masonry plugs here. They do come in a lot of colors, and here the colors have to do with their load capacity. That might mean the same as size, if that's the size of what is to be held up. I have a bunch!
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