Needles: Cutting from steel wire (1), flattening end (4), stamping eye (2), punching eye (3), filing eye and pointing end (7), polishing (8). Specific monotonous task. Process virtually unchanged for nearly 200 years. From Diderot 'Encyclopedie' Paris 1751-1780.

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Needles: Cutting from steel wire (1), flattening end (4), stamping eye (2), punching eye (3), filing eye and pointing end (7), polishing (8). Specific monotonous task. Process virtually unchanged for nearly 200 years. From Diderot 'Encyclopedie' Paris 1751-1780.

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