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In 1960 a knife blade was forged, then ground by a man lying forward over a spinning sandstone wheel with his face close to the work, then hafted…
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In 1960 a furniture factory held a year of timber in its own yard waiting to dry, cut real joints by machine and fitted them by hand, laid…
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In 1960 a cement works quarried its own limestone next door, blasted it on a schedule the district learned to recognise, and burned it in a rotating steel…
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In 1960 wire rope was made on machines carrying dozens of heavy bobbins spinning around a central axis, in buildings that transmitted the vibration through the floor, with…
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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…