Word: pushcart
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...English. His father, sprig of a Bavarian Protestant family which had produced craftsmen and tradesmen for generations, was a restless bookbinder who went from Augsburg to Paris. Rudolf, born in Paris in 1858, learned to use his hands in his father's atelier, delivered finished goods in a pushcart. Stirred by the ferment of new inventions-the storage battery, the gas engine, electric lights, dry-plate photography-the boy spent hours browsing in the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, two blocks from his home...