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3 days ago

New Research Could Rewrite the Story of One of New York's Earliest Shipwrecks

Museum of the City of New York and Dutch experts will re-examine 17th-century ship timbers to confirm whether they belong to the Dutch ship Tyger.
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1 month ago

Can you solve it? The forgotten Dutch invention that created the modern world

Corneliszoon's sawmill, argues Davila, was mankind's first true industrial machine. A windmill turned a wheel. One component transformed the rotary motion into up-and-down motion for the cutting blade. Another component transformed the rotary motion into a sideway's motion feeding the log to the blade. A ratchet system moved the log forward one precise increment per cycle. Each element was modest on its own.
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