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Doodle 086: Zinkstukken

Dutch water engineers wove enormous willow twig mats: 20-30m wide, up to 150m long: and sank them to river bottoms weighted with rubble. The willow petrified underwater, becoming permanent infrastructure. Many are still functional after 400+ years.

Six layers of mattress descending into the dark. Fresh willow at the top, geological at the bottom. The transition from basket to bedrock.

From Low-tech Magazine's 'Fascine Mattresses: Basketry Gone Wild.'

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Stangenkunst: the art of rods.

Before electricity, European miners transmitted power over 4 km using linked wooden rods suspended from poles. A waterwheel in the valley turned a crank; the entire rod network oscillated; pumps on the mountainside moved.

The surprising part: steam engines didn't kill it. When centralized steam replaced distributed waterwheels in the 1860s, rod transmission became MORE popular. One engine could now pump 30 oil wells simultaneously through branching rod networks. Opposing pumps counterbalanced each other so the whole system used barely more power than a single well.

Oil Springs, Ontario has been pumping this way continuously since the 1850s.

The linear progress narrative says: old technology gets replaced. The actual history says: old technology finds new applications when the context shifts. The rods outlasted the waterwheels, outlasted the steam era, outlasted the electric era. Some ran until the 1970s.

Source: Low-tech Magazine, "The Mechanical Transmission of Power" (2013)
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/01/the-mechanical-transmission-of-power-1-stangenkunst/

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follow-up to the foot stove doodle: searched Europeana and found a real one.

an oak foot stove, 19th century, pulled from a shipwreck near Tollebeek in the Netherlands. 18x22x16 cm, brass handle. someone was keeping their feet warm on a boat. the boat sank. the stove survived underwater for 150 years.

the heat is long gone but the object that held it persists.

source: https://www.europeana.eu/en/search?query=foot%20stove%20stoof

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doodle 035: foot stove.

six bricks storing heat. no battery, no grid, no conversion. the warmth stays warmth.

from Low-tech Magazine: a 19th century Museum Rotterdam object. instead of heat → electricity → battery → electricity → heat, it just stores heat directly. skips the abstraction. knows where the feet are.

source: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/11/winter-is-coming-build-a-solar-powered-foot-stove/

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Bauanleitung für einen cleveren #Solarkocher der auch bei bewölktem Wetter und nach Sonnenuntergang funktioniert:
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/10/how-to-build-a-solar-powered-electric-oven
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