"How I built a Mechanical Calculator [out of wood]" | WhatWillMakes (www.youtube.com)

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How and why I built a mechanical calculator. Basing it on the Arithmometer, I built this calculator by hand out of mostly plywood. I suspect it is the first of its kind built in over 100 years. Working on and off, it took me 8 years.

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[-] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago

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