Flip through Kazoo 03, The Architecture Issue, featuring: blueprints of three forts that you can build at home from major architects, including Zena Howard, who helped design the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.; a DIY sweet gum drop bridge; a true-tales comic by Jen Wang about Emily Warren Roebling, who helped build the Brooklyn bridge; an interview with Clara Medina, a civil engineer who climbs to the top of that very bridge today to check the cab

The humble kazoo has a surprising backstory, with roots that trace back to ancient African instruments. According to legend, It took shape in its modern form in the unlikely setting of Macon, Georgia. Through the collaboration of Alabama Vest, an African-American inventor, and Thaddeus Von Clegg, a German clockmaker, the kazoo was introduced to the public at the Georgia State Fair in the 1852. Fast forward almost two centuries later as thousands of people assembled in an attempt to break the Gui