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A Machine for Making Rifle Stocks - The Blanchard Lathe (1820s)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9697959
> >The so-called Blanchard lathe [actually, it’s a shaper since the cutter is a rotating wheel] works much like a modern key-cutting machine with a stock blank [a rough gunstock form] in place of the key blank. An iron master form, in the shape of the musket stock, slowly rotates allowing a guide wheel to roll over it and to direct, in turn, the cutting wheel as it makes identical movements on the rotating wooden stock blank. > > ! > > https://www.nps.gov/spar/learn/historyculture/thomas-blanchard-and-his-lathe.htm
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Final flag of the secessionist Confederacy, Virginia, USA, 1865
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surrender_flag_of_the_Civil_War_by_Matthew_Bisanz.JPG
Yes, it's a flag of surrender. And also a literal dishtowel. They used what they had, which wasn't much, apparently, lmao
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'Long' bone dice, found in Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia, antiquity
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prehistoric_Times_of_Bohemia,Moravia_and_Slovakia-_NM_Prague_30.JPG