Patented: 1,000 Design Patents

This book is truly just a collection of 1,000 patents from 1900 to 2020. It is interesting to flip through and glean bits of history. However, I wish the editor had cut the amount of patents in half and written a blurb about each one. It would be interesting to know what made him select each patent, the history of the object being patented, backstory on the inventor or company, and why it made history. For example, the stoplight. It's an object we take for granted but use everyday, like so many of the items in the book. I think this would be a great book to put on your coffee table for guests to flip through. Or it would look great on a bookshelf or on a gallery wall because it has an interesting aesthetic.