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In 1960 a patterned carpet began as a design painted square by square on squared paper, was translated into thousands of punched cards by hand, and was woven…
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In 1960 sugar beet were pulled out of the ground by hand, knocked together to shake off the soil, and topped with a heavy hooked knife swung thousands…
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In 1960 the first stage of sewage treatment was men with long forks raking the screens clear by hand, continuously, into barrows.
The sludge was dried in open…
There are buttons on the sleeve of almost every jacket, and on almost every jacket they do not do anything.
They cannot be undone, because on most garments there are…
On a great many cars there is a line of text etched into the passenger-side mirror warning that objects are closer than they appear, and nothing of the kind on…
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In 1960 an aeroplane was aluminium held together by several hundred thousand rivets, each one driven by two people working on opposite sides of a structure, unable to…