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    from clogging, and an ordinary wooden spoon. The "labour-saving" devices did not necessarily save labour, either. While the advent of mass-produced standardized...
    29 KB (3,378 words) - 11:37, 23 April 2024
  • technique much easier for amateurs to employ today, but no such labour-saving devices were available to Laverents. In 2000, Multiple SIDosis was selected...
    2 KB (179 words) - 22:46, 6 January 2020
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    20th century. Consumer goods such as Televisions and household labour saving devices became increasingly common. By the late 1950s, Britain was one of...
    59 KB (5,566 words) - 18:40, 30 May 2024
  • (such as Tittenhurst Park), and included futuristic appliances and labour-saving devices. The unusual roof emphasised post-war abstractism as opposed to...
    5 KB (516 words) - 09:28, 20 October 2023
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    Organum, aid and accelerate the process of induction. They are "labour-saving devices or shortcuts intended to accelerate or make more rigorous the search...
    23 KB (3,260 words) - 12:47, 8 April 2024
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    a flaring vortex of incandescent gas.” In spite of the myriad "labour saving devices" which will doubtless have multiplied by that date, and will have...
    13 KB (1,309 words) - 00:16, 7 June 2024
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    incorporating self-emptying ashpans and rocking grates which were labour-saving devices. A tender version, the Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0 was also produced. The...
    12 KB (905 words) - 09:44, 1 May 2024
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    into Australia at this time. These include electric appliances, labour saving devices, materials, fittings and storage systems. For more information see...
    19 KB (2,397 words) - 05:34, 16 January 2024
  • metal industry especially about he ignorance and lack of usage of labour saving devices like lathers, hammers, cutters, planing and milling machines. He...
    4 KB (429 words) - 18:19, 23 October 2022
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    and branded soap in his father's grocery shop. This was an early labour-saving device for the housewife as prior to this, commercially made soap was bought...
    10 KB (927 words) - 23:06, 10 December 2023
  • Lots of new clothes? A dream home with all the latest comforts and labour saving devices? A new car . . . a motor launch . . . a light aircraft of your own...
    9 KB (1,244 words) - 19:43, 18 July 2023
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    curving garages. Particularly clever design incorporating up-to-date labour saving devices. Must have caused quite a stramash amidst the douce, opulent villas...
    3 KB (384 words) - 22:45, 29 December 2022
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    trip to the US, being impressed by the production system and the labour saving devices. He pointed out that "it was not possible to develop these at Sunbeamland...
    16 KB (2,007 words) - 10:12, 23 May 2024
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    rapidly round the curlers. These were popular with hairdressers as a labour-saving device, and with manufacturers, as they were only used once and some 20...
    32 KB (4,561 words) - 09:09, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Australian residential architectural styles
    Modernist features of open planning, a minimal colour scheme, and labour saving devices that were new to Australia at the time. The house won the Sir John...
    103 KB (10,269 words) - 06:51, 9 May 2024
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    available innovations in steam technology from home and abroad. Various labour-saving devices were utilised to produce a simple, standard and effective design...
    34 KB (3,846 words) - 15:00, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Agriculture in Canada
    implements for the grain crop or horticultural farmer which are labour saving devices. Many Canadian museums such as Reynolds-Alberta Museum will showcase...
    69 KB (5,547 words) - 16:49, 12 December 2023
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    a labour-saving device on farms, and helped farmers accomplish much more than they could previously. The engine was typically belted to the device being...
    16 KB (2,254 words) - 16:48, 8 June 2024
  • 1940s household robots and humanoid butlers to once cutting-edge labour saving devices, to explore the social history of domestic life through inventions...
    18 KB (610 words) - 14:19, 5 March 2024
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    Their deity was Hephaestus, the god of all skilful things and labour-saving devices. This village has been renamed Dedeçam. Ramsay speaks of two other...
    67 KB (10,225 words) - 23:17, 2 April 2024
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