Hear us out on this&but there's a case to be made that the telescoping ladder may be one of mankind's most ingenious inventions. For all of recorded history, man has used some form of ladders and scaffolding to scale any heights over 10 feet&and that usually meant toting a big, cumbersome, hugely inconvenient ladder around. [&]

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