At the bottom front of almost every washing machine there is a small panel - a flap, a hinged cover or a clip-off plate. Behind it is a filter.
Its…
A wine glass has a stem, a tumbler does not, and the difference is widely treated as a matter of formality - stems are for occasions, tumblers are for everyday.…
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In 1960 losing your teeth was an ordinary expectation of middle age, and dental laboratories were built at a scale that assumed it.
A denture began as an…
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In 1960 watercress was grown in shallow gravel beds fed continuously by spring water, on farms that existed where the geology put the spring and nowhere else.
It…
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In 1960 the candle industry had already lost the thing it existed for. Electric light had been general for decades, and what remained was churches, emergencies, decoration and…
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In 1960 a piano was built around a single iron casting holding many tonnes of string tension, with a curved spruce soundboard kept permanently under load, strings wound…