Word: silversmithing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been replacing damaged portions of his body with artificial parts for centuries. Peg legs have been used since 600 B.C., and metal hands since the 16th century. Boston Silversmith Paul Revere was well known for the quality of the false teeth he fashioned long before his midnight message to Massachusetts' minutemen. But today's many and various replacements, made of such space-age materials as Teflon, the nonstick plastic, and pyrolytic carbon, a diamond-hard substance, are far more sophisticated. Unlike earlier devices, which were worn outside the body and usually removed at night, they are true replacements...
...documentary signposts. He was born in 1593, at Vic, a town in the duchy of Lorraine. At some time between 1610 and 1616, he is assumed to have gone to Italy and worked in Rome. By 1617 he was back in France, marrying the daughter of a prosperous ducal silversmith, Diane Le Nerf. The marriage paid well in contacts and commissions. In 1620 La Tour moved to Lunéville, his wife's town, and begged the Duke of Lorraine for tax exemption-"since nobody of the petitioner's art and profession lives there, or in the region...
...silversmith on Cape Cod, while a 1970 Wisconsin graduate in anthropology is quietly living on a New York State farm, making harpsichords for sale. The income from a career in the crafts may be uncertain, but it is not necessarily low. Blacksmiths can make more than $10,000 a year, and according to one careful computation, a toolmaker today can net more in his lifetime than a judge. It is not, of course, the pay that attracts youth to the crafts; it is a chance to be autonomous and to have time "to look inside themselves," as one explains...