Analog Hand: Hand Cranked Word Processing

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Ages 9-12

 

Vacation Program

  • Thursday, April 16, 2020
  • 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
  • Designed for ages 9 to 12
  • By Andrew Sargent, Site Historian & Lead Educator

for centuries, great mechanics sought to make machines to rival the human hand. Japanese, French and Swiss masters all succeed. And now you.

• Construct a machine than can crank out your initials.
• Contruct Thomas Jefferson's 'Polygraph' copier.
• And other clever copiers.


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