The Australian brothers who made everything from EVs to humidicribs

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Electric scooter, humidicrib, fax machine, Olympic scoreboard — versions of all these inventions (and hundreds more) were created by a pair of brothers, Donald and Edward Both, in their South Australian workshop from the 1930s.

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