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August 20th, 2018 by: John Dean Davis

Levees, Slavery, and Maintenance

Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 3 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.08.20.01 Davis_Levees Slavery and Maintenance Why is the U.S. Army in charge of the levees on the Mississippi River? There’s no one-sentence answer to this question. Even answering it in a paragraph would be difficult. The story of how the military became entwined with the great river…

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August 20th, 2018 by: Daniel Levinson Wilk

A Brief Episode in the History of Dusting

Technology’s Stories vol 6, no. 3 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.08.20.02 PDF: Wilk_Brief Histry of Dusting Cleaning kicks up dust, and dust takes its time to settle. In the early twentieth century, as business boomed and corporations clogged the sky, skyscraper managers scheduled a gap of hours between cleaning and dusting. They wrote about it in trade…

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August 20th, 2018 by: Camilla Røstvik

“Feminine Waste Only!!!” A History of the UK Sanitary Bin in the Twentieth Century

Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 3: DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.08.20.03 PDF: Rostvik_Feminine Waste Only Every fortnight one man enters all the women’s toilets at our university, removes and replaces the sanitary bins, and drives away in a van. Observing this system, I became curious about the grey rectangle with foot-operated pedals, “modesty flaps”, bearing the warning “for…

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