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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…
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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…