>>6759204>but they built shit to last.You would also build things to last if you were poor as fuck and lacked materials.
> i guess that's cause everything back then was made from wood, metal or glassTrue. Also most of those things you mention were very basic in their design so there wasn't really anything that could get broken.
The problem is that these days a lot of things are designed to break down in certain timespan. Friedrich Wohler has to be spinning in his grave when his research is used for this kind of shit.