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Antique French Gadgets

PopSci travels to Paris's Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers to round up the scientific instruments and machines of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Posted 4.23.07 at 2:00 am 0 Comments

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Believe this had something to do with generating electricity.
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Some kind of early telegraph . . . I think the guy cranking one handle could Morse-code the dude cranking the other. Mostly they'd talk about what that dome on the top is for.
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