Benjamin Arthur, Illustrator, animation director & author

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A Toy Story of Invention

NPR, with Manu Prakash · 2017

How a child's whirligig became the Paperfuge: a paper centrifuge that costs about twenty cents and spins blood samples at up to 125,000 rpm, made by Stanford bioengineer Manu Prakash for clinics without electricity.

Made for
NPR
With
Manu Prakash
Year
2017
Ben’s part
Director and animator
Running time
1:36

From the cutting-room floor

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