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Akanksha Singh
Akanksha Singh
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How alarm clocks put knocker-uppers out of business
Meet the people paid to rouse the workers of industrial Britain.
The lies that skulls told us
The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
How refrigeration destroyed the massive international ice industry
Ice harvesters once made a living from frozen lakes and ponds, but the work was strenuous and dangerous. Then refrigeration changed everything.