 What didn't happen because of the original Super-Opener?
THE SUPER OPENER BY MICHAEL ZUROY [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, August 1958. The International rips apart cans in three and three-tenths seconds. Our own Piltdon opener barely manages to open a can in eight point nine without chimes. In four months I want a new can-opener that will be faster, lighter, stronger, flashier and more musical than any other on the market. I want it completely developed, engineered and tooled-up, ready for production. A designer had to dream at his board, investigate, search, build, test, compare, discard. What had happened, to the proud dream he once had, the dream of exploring uncharted engineering regions, of unlimited time to investigate and develop? Since the early 1980's the schools had been turning out more technicians than industry could absorb. "We must work along classical can-opener lines. Three new models and a group of cans were waiting for them on the bench. The machinist departed and Hanson locked the opener on a can. Likewise several corn cans, sweet potato cans and corned-beef hash cans, leaving their contents intact. I designed this opener with sixteen degree, twenty-two minute pressure angle modified involute gear teeth, seven degree, nineteen minute front clearance cutter angle and thirty-six degree, twelve minute back rake angle. "This," he exulted, "will make can-opener history.
 Feetch became famous
 Feetch became famous  Feetch got a raise  People had to begin wearing hats and helmets  Piltdon made a lot of money