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Pick up a spot welder and join the revolution.

Save this story Save this story Enthusiasts of the maker movement foresee a third industrial revolution. Illustration by Harry Campbell In January of 1903, the small Boston magazine Handicraft ran an essay by the Harvard professor Denman W. Ross, who argued that the American Arts and Crafts movement was in deep crisis. The movement was concerned with promoting good taste and self-fulfillment through the creation and the appreciation of beautiful objects; its more radical wing also sought to advance worker autonomy. The problem was that no one in America seemed to need its products. The solutio

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