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American Experience

How one carrot peeler revolutionized design | Extended Audio Description | The Curb Cut Effect

Season 37 Episode 2 | 7m 12s

EAD Did you know that many of the household products we use every day were originally designed by or for people with disabilities? Take OXO's Good Grips vegetable peeler, for example, designed by Sam and Betsey Farber so that Betsey, who had arthritis, could cook without pain.

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