Consider the piggy bank. Behind that innocent ... Continuing with the money-saving theme, [gzumwalt] didn’t use a micro or even a 555. No, the core of this project is a pair of micro lever ...

The piggy bank originated about 500 years ago at the dawn of capitalism, when ordinary people started to possess silver coins ...

Many examples of money banks exist today from the ancient East, and they are often shaped like wild boars. The most famous of these terracotta piggy banks are from the Indonesian island of Java ...