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The hotel bathroom puzzle

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In his wonderful book The Evolution of Useful Things, the author and civil engineer Henry Petroski shares one of the most famous case studies in the history of design: Before it was destroyed by fire, L'Hotel Louis XIV, which was located on the waterfront in Quebec, advertised private baths. However, their privacy was of a…

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