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The drinking fountain button
An elegant button for a civilized era.
Who among us hasn’t walked up to a drinking fountain, expecting a bubbling stream of life-giving water, only to experience the crushing disappointment of a measly trickle after smashing in that button? A quick patent search shows the cartridge idea dates back to at least the late 1950s, and drinking fountain manufacturers have all but standardized on it today. But ironically, it’s a lack of even that basic maintenance that turns bubblers into dribblers, Haws technical product manager Josh Linn tells me.
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