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He came with a wagon, set up in the yard, and worked for a day or two.
The travelling tinner carried sheet metal, solder, a small furnace and…
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A bottle that claims to treat forty unrelated things is telling you about its market, not its contents.
Labels listed enormous ranges of complaints because a remedy sold…
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Every music machine before it played a pattern built into the hardware. This one replayed the air.
Sound vibrating a diaphragm moved a cutting point that scratched a…
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Loose fibres have no strength. Twisting them makes them grip each other, and that is thread.
Short fibres laid side by side pull apart instantly. The same fibres…
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The blade does not chop. It slices, and that single fact shapes the whole tool.
A scythe blade is drawn sideways through standing stems close to the…
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A hen decides to sit, and nobody can make her do it.
A broody hen stops laying, refuses to leave the nest, puffs up and becomes extremely defensive…