As childhood sweethearts, Olive Ewing and Raymond Clapper lived a block apart in Kansas City’s (Kan.) packinghouse district. The grocer’s daughter and the laborer’s son went to the same ...

The Clapper™ is a miracle of the 1980s, turning lights and TVs on and off with the simple clap of the hands, and engraving itself into the collective human unconsciousness with a little jingle ...

[Richard] put up a great virtual teardown of The Clapper, that provides a lot of insight into how this magic relay box actually works, along with some historical context for the world The Clapper ...