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the pivot is located between input effort and output load, the lever swings about the pivot when force is applied in order to overcome the force of resistance on the opposite side.
It was taken from the Lever family tomb, where it had been since the 1950s.
He was born in Bolton in 1851, but Lever will forever be associated with Port Sunlight, the model village he created to house the Lever Brothers' workers.
 
 
 
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