My father was a historian, and the work of James Burke has inculcated in me a particular fascination with the history of technological development.
(I actually attracted the attention of quite a few other moviegoers when I was watching Sleepy Hollow, noticed a board with obvious signs of a rotary saw cut-- in the 18th Century-- and groaned. Loudly. At length. Some woman whose name I cannot recall came up with the idea of not needing to haul a sawmill blade back and forth sometime around 1810 or so. This was like seeing a biplane in a Western. GROOOOAN.)
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Date: 2014-08-16 06:19 am (UTC)(I actually attracted the attention of quite a few other moviegoers when I was watching Sleepy Hollow, noticed a board with obvious signs of a rotary saw cut-- in the 18th Century-- and groaned. Loudly. At length. Some woman whose name I cannot recall came up with the idea of not needing to haul a sawmill blade back and forth sometime around 1810 or so. This was like seeing a biplane in a Western. GROOOOAN.)