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Adam Smith famously used a pin factory to illustrate the advantages of specialization, choosing this "very trifling manufacture" because the different tasks were performed under one roof: "One man ...

Other projects supported by the Heritage at Risk Capital Fund include the derelict Toll House at Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare and Swindon’s Health Hydro, which contains England’s oldest Turkish ...

In the early 1800s, a barn in Gloucester was converted into a pin factory. Now in 2026, its restoration has finally begun, ...

SHELTON — Demolition was slated to begin Monday on the remains of the historic Star Pin building off Canal Street, the scene of a massive fire Saturday night. Firefighters have remained on-site for ...

SHELTON — The focus of the city’s continued revitalization of Canal Street has now turned to the historic Star Pin Co. building, which was built in 1875 and has sat vacant for some 15 years. The state ...

ECONOMISTS, the worldly philosophers, do not on the whole live up to that tag. They are familiar enough with the economy as it exists in equations and official statistics, but are fair strangers to ...