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There is one in a box in a lot of American attics: a wooden handle, a hood with two lenses in it, a sliding wire rack out front,…
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Older people describe it and younger people do not believe it: a curl of amber paper hanging from the kitchen ceiling, turning slowly, black with flies. Several of…
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There is a vehicle in old photographs of American main streets that everybody looks past: a flat wooden platform on four wheels, no sides, no seat to speak…
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Barbed wire looks like the least interesting thing on a farm, and it reorganised the use of an entire continent.
The problem it solved was weight. Across the…
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To make a telephone call, you lifted the receiver and a person answered - and then physically built your call by plugging a cord into a hole.
The…
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The sidewalk used to be made of boards, raised several inches above the ground on timber stringers, running along the front of the buildings.
That elevation is the…