The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.

Statutes of repose are a compromise of the interests of consumers on the one hand and of manufacturers and sellers on the other.

However, although steam-powered machines were used in the 19th century also to roughcast and polish mass-produced lenses for everyday use of just a few centimeters in diameter (for glasses and lorgnettes, opera glasses and small cheap telescopes), those of the best quality, used mainly in optical equipment, were still manufactured and finished off by hand, one by one.

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