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In 1960 a brush was filled with animal hair - pig bristle, horsehair, badger, squirrel - each chosen for a specific stiffness and taper, cleaned, combed, sorted by…
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In 1960 organ pipe metal was melted and poured across a long bench to cast a sheet, planed to thickness, cut to a pattern and rolled into a…
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In 1960 an umbrella was a steel frame of dozens of separate components assembled by hand, carrying a cover cut on the bias and sewn panel by panel,…
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In 1960 a jam factory's entire year happened in a few violent weeks when the fruit came in, because soft fruit spoils within days and the crop does…
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In 1960 a spectacle lens was a glass blank cemented to a holder and ground against a spinning metal tool with abrasive slurry, in successively finer grades, then…
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In 1960 a tobacco factory was a major employer running some of the fastest machines in any industry, with leaf stripped and graded by hand by rows of…