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How a Bicycle is Made (1945)

From British Council Film, how a bicycle was designed and manufactured in 1945.

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DO NOT WORK FOR FREE UNDER THE GUISE OF GOOD EXPOSURE

 

"If you don't value your own work, neither will anyone else."

Helpful hints from joeeze: Refrigerator-freezer thermometer — be cool

It's a fact: if your refrigerator's temperature isn't ≤ 40°F and your freezer ≤0°F, your food is more prone to going bad and making you sick.

You could look it up.

Drop a few bucks on a thermometer — get two, one apiece for your fridge and freezer — and see if you're running dangerously hot.

                                       

The ones pictured above and below, all by Taylor, are for sale at Amazon for between $2.21 and $7.75.

Choose your unpoison.

99% of the people in the U.S., asked to name a refrigerator/freezer/oven thermometer brand, can't go beyond Taylor — assuming they got there in the first place.

And yet I don't recall ever seeing an ad for Taylor thermometers.

FunFact: Taylor Instruments was founded in 1851 in Rochester, New York.