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Can You Crack This? The Overlooked Netherlands Creation That Shaped the Modern World
One can find many contenders to claim the designation as “planet’s greatest invention.” The circular axle. The movable type. The steam engine.
According to a new book, though, that title should go to the mechanised sawmill invented through Dutchman Cornelis Corneliszoon during 1593.
“Prior to mechanised cutting, building a modest merchant vessel required around ten sawyers working over 90 days,” notes Jaime Dávila. “Using wind-powered sawmills, the same amount of cut lumber might be produced in less than a week.”
Thanks to their speedy automated cutter, which converted logs into planks with almost no human effort, the Dutch could build ships more quickly compared to any other nation, an advantage that sparked a century of Netherlands maritime, financial and artistic dominance in the continent and the world.
The Original Genuine Industrial Machine
Corneliszoon’s sawmill, contends the writer, represented “mankind’s first true industrial machine.” A windmill rotated a wheel. A single part converted the rotary movement into up-and-down action for the cutting blade. A separate mechanism changed the rotary motion into a lateral movement feeding the log to the cutter. A geared mechanism moved the wood forward a measured step each cycle.
“Each element was simple by itself. Corneliszoon’s brilliance lay in how to combine these parts in order that they operated within a precisely synchronized order, cutting with each descending motion and moving on every return stroke. It was an astonishingly intelligent use of basic components.”
Which brings us to today’s puzzle. The task is for you to reinvent a key the fundamental concepts underpinning this historic machine.
Circular to Vertical
Construct a mechanism that turns circular movement to up-and-down action. Your available these components exclusively: A spinning wheel. Two pegs. Two bars. A “guide”, that is a tube or sleeve through which one of the rods can slide perfectly. (Assume you can mount components on a stand, so the components do not fall down.)
The solution returns later today UK with the solution.
Meanwhile, PLEASE NO HINTS. Rather, please propose (less celebrated) candidates for the planet’s most impactful creation.
Katherine Bryant
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