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In 1960 a glove began with a cutter stretching a skin by hand to find out how much give it had and in which direction, because a glove…
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In 1960 a flour mill was a tall building in which grain was lifted once to the top and then fell through a dozen or more stages of…
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In 1960 a tyre factory was black - the carbon black that makes rubber strong was handled loose, and it covered the floors, the machines and everybody in…
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In 1965 a mail order company printed a book of a thousand pages, committed to every price in it for six months, and posted it to millions of…
A pasta spoon has a hole in the middle of it, and the overwhelming majority of people who own one assume the hole is there to let water drain through.…
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On the back of a great many shirts, just below the yoke where the pleat sits, there is a small fabric loop.
Most people have noticed it, nobody…