When a Victorian woman (let’s call her Clara) was doing housework around her English manor one day in the 19th century, she noticed that a button was coming loose on her blouse. She reached for the small sewing kit hanging at her waist and mended it lickety-split.
Making afternoon tea, she saw the sugar supply was running low, so she reached for a tiny notebook and jotted down a reminder to buy more. When she got a splinter, she grabbed a magnifying glass and easily plucked it out of her finger. That night when Clara went to check on her
