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  • Shot Towers

    Shot Towers

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    Is it some sort of munitions testing facility? Why build it in downtown Baltimore? There’s a reason for everything, and then I found out there were lots of them, and some are still around, almost 200 years and several technological revolutions later.

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Motor oil and doughnuts are not often talked about in the same paragraph, but at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago these two very dissimilar products befuddled the fair’s visitors. And from almost any place on the fairgrounds you could learn the exact temperature of the world around you.

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