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In 1960 soft drinks came in glass bottles that came back. The empties returned filthy, were washed in hot caustic, were inspected by one person watching them pass…
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In 1965 every manufactured object in the world began as lines drawn by hand on a board the size of a door. A draughtsman worked with a tee…
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In 1955 a canal lock was worked by a man who lived in the cottage beside it, because the job required somebody to be there at any hour…
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In 1960 a large works, mill or warehouse was protected overnight by one man walking a fixed round, carrying a clockwork drum on a strap that recorded the…
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In 1960 a glassworks ran a furnace that had not been out for years, worked molten material at over a thousand degrees within a few feet of men…
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In 1960 a sawmill ran a six-foot blade with nothing over the cutting zone, moved logs by hand with peaveys on a deck where a shifting log had…