Oh, nothing, just individually locating and downloading 9.5gb worth of (200+) high-rez (3600px wide) scans out of a 16th C book of extremely satisfying machines from the Library of Congress, one at a time, labeling them, and putting them in a folder for future collage work.
@pluralistic it … pumps the water up with screws? And then it goes back down a pipe?
I am not satisfied. I am disturbed
@pluralistic for some reason, I find the idea of gears at 45 degree angles off-putting as well
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Also, it uses the river to pump river water up three stories. What anyone does with it once there is up to them. But kinda ingenious to use the Archimedes screw as the drive train for the mechanical energy.
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