The committee
R. Quist
Quist once watched a ceiling fan complete four thousand revolutions and reported that it neither improved nor deteriorated. No one at the Review has seen him blink.
Specimens considered
- No. 207A lamp on a jointed arm3.7
- No. 205A clock built for glancing rather than reading2.3
- No. 204The ball return3.7
- No. 199The coiling door3.4
- No. 177A seat that resets itself3.9
- No. 171The drive-through pneumatic tube4.3
- No. 168The barber pole3.6
- No. 166The DMV eye test machine3.4
- No. 149The postal counter scale3.6
- No. 143The library reshelving cart3.0
- No. 142The rotating pie case4.3
- No. 136The bolted-down TV remote2.2
- No. 125The laundry cart's front left wheel1.7
- No. 116The paint shaker2.3
- No. 104The key-cutting machine4.4
- No. 103The blood pressure machine3.6
- No. 102The fuel pump nozzle4.2
- No. 101The change machine's two-second pause2.2
- No. 092A margin built entirely of holes4.5
- No. 091The seatback tray table2.7
- No. 084The number that advances by one3.6
- No. 081Eleven circuits of carousel four3.4
- No. 061The odometer3.6
- No. 060The bathroom scale1.7
- No. 058The push lawnmower3.9
- No. 044The parking validation stamp2.3
- No. 034The supply closet3.7
- No. 021The break room coffee pot3.4
- No. 018The escalator handrail3.3
- No. 010The ceiling fan on low3.9