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Monday, May 29, 2006

Learn how lotus plants inspired architects and industrial designers.

Architects and engineers were puzzled over how to keep all those skyscrapers free of dust in an a more cost effective way than manual labor. The lotus plant inspired one solution. There are other interesting industrial innovations from nature, but the lotus is first in the video.

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