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The comfort of a home is a pile of small ideas. Lighting, heating and cooking have changed bit by bit over the centuries. The electrification of households in the 20th century sped this up. These advances go almost unnoticed because they seem so natural.
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by Johann Hinrich Wichern
Christmas never came fast enough for the poor children of an old farm near Hamburg. They had been taken in there and kept asking when it would come. Their teacher made a wooden wreath with twenty small red candles and four large white ones.
Photo: Burkhard Mücke (CC BY 4.0)
by Ami Argand
Solid wicks gave a lot of smoke and little light. A physicist from Geneva replaced them with tube-shaped wicks and got a lamp ten to twelve times brighter than a plain candle.
Photo: Torsten Scherning at German Wikipedia (Original text: Torsten Scherning) (Public domain)
by Clifford Warren Ashley
A well-balanced cloverleaf at the end of a rope. Clifford Ashley wanted to copy a knot used by oystermen. As he came close to the original he realised it was only a plain figure-eight knot swollen by damp.
Photo: David J. Fred (CC BY-SA 2.5)
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