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New Britain Machine made hand tools and the Stanley works, that started with Stanley all-steel vacuum flask, later expanding into a wide range of other items, ending up big in the electric tool business and merging with Black and Decker.—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2025 During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023 It is then pumped into a truck-sized double-thick vacuum flask on wheels and sent to hospitals.—Washington Post, 24 June 2020 Those without vehicles were seen carrying fuel in cans, bottles, and even vacuum flasks.—Riyaz Wani, Quartz India, 4 Aug. 2019
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