Publisher’s note: Welcome to Earlywood, where we talk about all sorts of tingles and throbs. Every Saturday, we publish a free excerpt from one of the thousands of pieces I’ve written since 1996. Sometimes it’s from a magazine article. Or a blog entry. Or (in this case) a book, “Ingenious Mechanicks,” published in 2018. Each entry has been updated or an…
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