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SonofDonald

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11. Thank you for that

Reply to hunter (Reply #8)

Wed May 17, 2017, 11:01 PM

May 2017

I knew they've made modern copy's of the device but that is so neat to see how it was actually built by hand, amazing how much talent had existed back then, and as it stated....

This probably wasn't the first time something like this was attempted.

Mind blowing.

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Thank you for that SonofDonald May 2017 #11

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