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It is a wooden box on legs, about the size of a chest of drawers, with a crank on the side, a hopper on top, a couple of…
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The cold in an American kitchen in July used to be harvested. Not manufactured - cut, like a crop, out of a frozen pond the previous January.
Crews…
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In 1964, when a rural American household needed a well, the question of where to dig was frequently answered by a neighbour with a forked branch.
He held…