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Corsi–Rosenthal Box (DIY air filter design) (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Indeed. My first thought was "oh, so that's what they were called?" Only to see that two designers just slapped their names on an already existing creation decades after the fact

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

I made a comic about this: