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In 1960 a silk mill was kept deliberately damp, because silk's strength and stretch change with the moisture in the air and dry silk will not behave.
The…
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In 1960 a needle began as steel wire cut into lengths exactly two needles long, because a blank with a point at each end could be ground at…
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In 1960 a cable ship was built around circular tanks holding thousands of miles of cable, coiled down flat by hand by men walking the coil as it…
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In 1965 a refinery flare burned permanently, visible across the district. The sulphur smell told the town which way the wind was blowing. Process samples were collected by…
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In 1960 a playing card was two layers of paper laminated with a black core so that no light could pass through it, cut with the paper grain…
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In 1960 a brush was filled with animal hair - pig bristle, horsehair, badger, squirrel - each chosen for a specific stiffness and taper, cleaned, combed, sorted by…