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In 1960 a television was hundreds of components wired point to point by hand, by rows of women at benches, into a chassis that slid out of a…
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In 1960 an officer walked a fixed route alone for a whole shift, with no radio, contactable only at a locked post on the street with a lamp…
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In 1960 a knife blade was forged, then ground by a man lying forward over a spinning sandstone wheel with his face close to the work, then hafted…
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In 1960 a furniture factory held a year of timber in its own yard waiting to dry, cut real joints by machine and fitted them by hand, laid…
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In 1960 a cement works quarried its own limestone next door, blasted it on a schedule the district learned to recognise, and burned it in a rotating steel…
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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…