This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Between 1852 and 1887 the U.S. patent office issued over 100 patents for clothespins. These tools for attaching laundry ...
Exploring the many inventive uses to which the diary has been put, Loveman shows how Pepys's history became part of the history of the nation. Full text views reflects the number of PDF downloads, ...
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talented at making ordinary things seem strange and new.” “Gulliver’s Travels” had turned Swift into a noted social critic who, as King writes, believed that real enlightenment “came ...