industrial history

Jean Fouquet’s fifteenth-century work entitled "Blue Team of Master Masons wins the LXXIX Diocesan Productivity Award".

Despite the team’s industrious endeavour, the cathedral remained unfinished for another two hundred years. In the century subsequent to Fouquet’s work, increasingly widespread use of tobacco from the Americas prompted stoneworkers’ descendants to take ever frequent crafty clay pipe breaks behind unfinished gargoyles.

Furthermore, innovations in the design of the modern loamy-soil digging spade*, the upper crosspiece of which resulted an ideal feature upon which to lean, brought with them thitherto unprecedented levels of slacking.

* link features two implements, each designed to suit the resting requirements of individuals of different heights.