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My friend Geoff is a classic Abel. He is one of the sweetest, most compassionate guys you''d ever want to meet, but ask him about Phil and his eyes go all flinty and he takes you back to a day in Florida about five years ago on one of the trips that the three of us had been making with five other guys for 19 years.Geoff is playing with Phil when, halfway through the round, Geoff notices something:"As everyone putts out, it registers that though Phil was closest, he didn''t pick up the flagstick and replace it. So I pick it up. At the next hole I notice he leaves it again, right at his feet. In fact, he''s gotta step over the flag to leave the green. As we walk to the next tee, it occurs to me that I''ve never seen Phil actually pick up a flagstick. As the day goes on, I keep a running count. Zero. Then I think back to previous trips ..."

The author then takes the first of a number of ruminative breathers, speculating on the button. The Romans used buttons only as ornaments and even the ancient Chinese never progressed beyond the toggle and loop. Unlike the handsaw, which was refined over time, the button and its buttonhole simply appeared in northern Europe in the thirteenth century--true works of an anonymous inventive genius. Then we proceed to an influential treatise on ingenious machines published in 1588 by Agostino Ramelli, a military engineer. Among the machines is a bookstand that revolves like a Ferris wheel, holding eight books at a constant angle by means of a gearing system used in astronomical clocks. The author comments: "Of course, gravity would have done the job equally well (as it does in a Ferris wheel), but the gearing system allowed Ramelli to demonstrate his considerable skill as a mathematician." Then the author writes: "This splendid folly distracts me-I''m supposed to be looking for screwdrivers."

And two steam products currently on offer from Domena include an all-in-one combined steam station and ironing board (CR 1500) and FG971 steam generator. On the first model the generating station is attached under the ironing board and has a detachable water container. The FG971 also offers a detachable water container with capacity of 0.6 litres and has a three-minute heat-up time. Further to these the maker will be unveiling new products later in the spring.Looking ahead, manufacturers only see the category of steam generators continuing to chip into the conventional iron''s market share, if only slowly; at the same time however the demand for cheaper priced products will remain.

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