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Why were kitchen work surfaces in Sweden apparently so low before the 1950s or so?
Why were apparently kitchens so low in Sweden before the 1950s or so?
This may be the same thing everywhere else as well. It's just that I have only heard it in Swedish context.
Before the ...
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Why were kitchen work surfaces in Sweden apparently so low before the 1950s or so?
Three thoughts:
I doubt that people somehow suddenly got significantly taller in Sweden in the first half of the 20th century.
As a comment already points out, people did get substantially taller.
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Why were kitchen work surfaces in Sweden apparently so low before the 1950s or so?
The discovery that people work best at a waist-high workspace was one of the discoveries of efficiency experts working in factories in the late 19th century.
It was brought to the kitchen by Christine ...
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When did "JFK" become a recognizable initialism for John F. Kennedy?
Semi-answering my own question: I don't see any usage of "JFK" in NewspaperArchive.com prior to August 1960. The earliest newspaper reference I've found is from the San Antonio Express of ...
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