Inventions & Industry
Ruth Fenner and the double hinge
An improvement to a folding chair travelled further than the workshop that devised it, largely because it made one familiar task less awkward.
Early twentieth centuryRead
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Keeping a colour at Hollingford
The dye rooms' sample cards reveal a trade in which remembering a shade could matter as much as producing it.
Late nineteenth centuryRead
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The bell at the end of the cloth
A small workshop signal changed how one weaving room divided its attention, while leaving the larger machinery almost untouched.
Interwar yearsRead
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A broader wheel for Elderwick
One bicycle maker's answer to rough streets achieved a devoted local following and very little agreement beyond it.
Turn of the twentieth centuryRead
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The changing shape of a packing crate
At a small pottery, the history of packaging can be read through the corners, handles and pencil marks of its returnable wooden boxes.
Mid-twentieth centuryRead
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