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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 1955 the remnants of a trade were still being worked in brick sheds behind houses - a hearth, an anvil, bellows, and a family making chain and…
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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…
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In 1960 the first stage of sewage treatment was men with long forks raking the screens clear by hand, continuously, into barrows.
The sludge was dried in open…
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In 1960 an aeroplane was aluminium held together by several hundred thousand rivets, each one driven by two people working on opposite sides of a structure, unable to…