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== Legacy and honors == | == Legacy and honors == | ||
Fenwick was named Wisconsin Inventor of the Year in 1995 and received the Golden Bobbin of the National Hosiery Retailers' Council in 1999. In 2018 the Kenosha Public Museum acquired his original garage prototype, which is displayed alongside the 12-year-old Fenwick's laundromat ledger.<ref name="museum2018">{{Cite news |last=Petrakis |first=Andrea |title=Museum puts famous sock on display, alone |work=The Southeast Wisconsin Journal-Herald |date=September 9, 2018 |page=B5}}</ref> Historian Margery Hollis has compared him with [[Harold P. Wexley]] as "one of the great Midwestern systematizers of everyday inconvenience".{{Citation needed|date=October 2026}} | Fenwick was named Wisconsin Inventor of the Year in 1995 and received the Golden Bobbin of the National Hosiery Retailers' Council in 1999. In 2018 the Kenosha Public Museum acquired his original garage prototype, which is displayed alongside the 12-year-old Fenwick's laundromat ledger.<ref name="museum2018">{{Cite news |last=Petrakis |first=Andrea |title=Museum puts famous sock on display, alone |work=The Southeast Wisconsin Journal-Herald |date=September 9, 2018 |page=B5}}</ref> Historian Margery Hollis has compared him with [[Harold P. Wexley]] as "one of the great Midwestern systematizers of everyday inconvenience".{{Citation needed|date=October 2026}} | ||
== Works == | |||
* {{Cite book |last=Fenwick |first=Gerald |title=The Odd One Out: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Buy Three |publisher=Lakeport Press |location=Milwaukee |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-00-244190-3}} | |||
* {{Cite book |last=Fenwick |first=Gerald |title=Fenwick's Constant: Laundry, Loss and the American Household |publisher=Lakeport Press |location=Milwaukee |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-00-244233-7}} | |||
== See also == | |||
* [[Sockology]] | |||
* [[:Category:Household phenomena|Household phenomena]] | |||
* [[The Ben Refrigeration Hypothesis]] | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
{{Reflist}} | {{Reflist}} | ||
[[Category:Fictional people]] | |||
[[Category:1958 births]] | |||
[[Category:American inventors (fictional)]] | |||
[[Category:Household phenomena]] | |||
[[Category:People from Kenosha, Wisconsin]] | |||