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<p>[QUOTE="Mansons2005, post: 255856, member: 121"]Just a passing thought to keep in mind when considering dates. </p><p><br /></p><p>This discussion seems to cover a span of 50 or less years. In an age when it could take 3 months to get a letter from NY to St. Louis, I think you have to take into consideration the time it took for technology to travel to different parts of the country. Not only availability of said technology, but the affordability of the technology. A small town carpenter who was producing furniture in the local vernacular for local sale would not have the same technology as a wholesale manufacturer in an East Coast city. </p><p><br /></p><p>As with 3-D printers today - in ages to come there will be discussions on WHY a measuring cup was mass manufactured, imported from China and purchased at Costco, when it could have been printed in someone's kitchen......................[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mansons2005, post: 255856, member: 121"]Just a passing thought to keep in mind when considering dates. This discussion seems to cover a span of 50 or less years. In an age when it could take 3 months to get a letter from NY to St. Louis, I think you have to take into consideration the time it took for technology to travel to different parts of the country. Not only availability of said technology, but the affordability of the technology. A small town carpenter who was producing furniture in the local vernacular for local sale would not have the same technology as a wholesale manufacturer in an East Coast city. As with 3-D printers today - in ages to come there will be discussions on WHY a measuring cup was mass manufactured, imported from China and purchased at Costco, when it could have been printed in someone's kitchen......................[/QUOTE]
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