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I’d like to tell you a story. That is, I’d like to, but my lawyer says I mustn’t… perhaps in a hundred years, when my stock of old jokes has has been reviewed by the Supreme Court… Attending a meeting of the Sheffield SMEE, I was leafing through a 1941 volume of Model Engineer and noticed a water feed pump. As shown, it can not work because the pump handle, rocking at the base, describes a curved path but the pump piston rod connected about half way up the lever is square on to the the base. This difficulty is what the Watt parallel motion solves. In this issue, dangerous scam, a bayonet in a bottle, a robot workshop, disappearing nuts, extending a locomotive to fit a short name? a…

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