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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 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 stonemason cut stone by hand at a bench with a mallet and chisel for a full working day, in a dry enclosed workshop full of…
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In 1960 a suit from a tailor took six weeks and three fittings. A cutter read the customer's body, drafted a paper pattern for that person alone, and…
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In 1960 almost every house had a piano, and keeping them playable was done by one man with a bag of tools who worked entirely by ear.
He…