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Fast food franchise
How a milkshake-mixer salesman turned a burger restaurant into a global giant
CCTV
How do we feel about being watched?
Retirement
How should we treat our elders?
Santa
Why does Father Christmas wear red and white?
Sewing machine
A device that changed women's lives was designed to make a man very rich
Hollerith punch card
The machine that turned data into money
Stock option
An incentive for good performance, or another way to boost executives' pay?
Fundraising appeal
What's the best way to get people to give to charity?
SWIFT
A system that solved big problems is now facing its greatest challenge
Wedgwood
What does the fashion industry owe to an 18th-century potter?
