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Occupations | Tends machine that button-tufts mattresses: Adjusts needle stroke and button tying mechanism to thickness of mattress. Fills machine hopper with tufting buttons. Places mattress on movable table of machine and turns wheel to adjust distance between mattress and machine head. Presses button to start machine and moves table laterally, forward, and backward to space tufts as machine head inserts tufts into both sides. May tend machine that automatically moves table and tufts mattress, or semiautomatic machine that requires lever operation for each stroke. May tend machine that tufts with knots. May tuft by hand [TUFTER, HAND (furniture)]. (references) |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 55 54 54 4F 4E 2D 54 55 46 54 49 4E 47 2D 4D 41 43 48 49 4E 45 4F 50 45 52 41 54 4F 52 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010101 01010100 01010100 01001111 01001110 00101101 01010100 01010101 01000110 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00101101 01001101 01000001 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000101 00100000 01001111 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B U T T O N - T U F T I N G - M A C H I N E   O P E R A T O R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0055 0054 0054 004F 004E 002D 0054 0055 0046 0054 0049 004E 0047 002D 004D 0041 0043 0048 0049 004E 0045 004F 0050 0045 0052 0041 0054 004F 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3655545449481554554054434841154735374243483924950395235544952 |
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