As the U.S. war effort ramped up in the early 1940s, the Navy put out a request for chair design submissions. They needed a chair that was fireproof, waterproof, lightweight and strong enough to survive a torpedo blast. And they got this: https://buff.ly/2JmEO2L
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(Not thinking at all about how our current administration would think something like this was a stupid waste of money. And the project would be cancelled because some techbro sent the algorithm off to hunt down anything with the word "diverse" in it.)