On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:56:42 -0500, J. Clarke wrote:

Face it, there's nothing magic
about machining two pieces of steel flat and sticking them together at
right angles--they can do that as well in India or China as they do in
the US and Japan and the EU.

I've got one of the first squares from Stanley Rule and Level Company.
They put the handle and the blade in a jig and poured molten metal into a
matching set of holes. After all these years, it's still right on!

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Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw