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While looking through a yearly volume of the Scientific American Architects and Builders Supplemental volume for April, 1887, I was very much impressed by the sheer size and heaviness and oddness of some of the good advertised in the back of this one issue. For example, here’s the distant relation of a convenience that we all take for granted nowadays:
