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Are You Able to Solve This? The Forgotten Netherlands Invention That Forged the Modern World
There are many contenders for the designation as “world’s greatest innovation.” The circular axle. The movable type. The steam engine.
According to a new book, however, that honor belongs to the automated timber mill conceived through Dutch inventor Corneliszoon van Uitgeest in 1593.
“Before automated sawing, constructing a modest merchant vessel required approximately ten lumberjacks working over three months,” writes Jaime Dávila. “Using wind-powered sawmills, an identical amount of processed timber could be produced in less than a week.”
Thanks to their speedy mechanical cutter, that turned timber into planks with almost no human effort, the Dutch could construct ships faster than any other nation, an advantage that unleashed one hundred years of Dutch maritime, financial and artistic supremacy in the continent and the world.
The First True Industrial Machine
The inventor's sawmill, argues the writer, was “humanity’s initial true industrial machine.” A wind turbine turned a wheel. A single part converted its rotary movement into up-and-down action to power the saw. A separate mechanism changed that same spinning movement into a lateral movement feeding the log to the cutter. A geared mechanism moved the log ahead a measured step each cycle.
“Every component seemed simple on its own. The Dutchman’s genius lay in how to combine these parts so the machine acted in a precisely synchronized order, sawing with each descending motion while advancing on every return motion. It was an astonishingly clever use of basic parts.”
A fact that brings us to today’s challenge. The task is for you to reinvent one of the fundamental ideas underpinning Corneliszoon’s machine.
Round and Up
Construct a mechanism which converts circular motion to up-and-down motion. Your available these components exclusively: A spinning wheel. Two pins. Two bars. A “guide”, which is a tube or housing through which a single the rods can slide snugly. (Assume it is possible to put things on a stand, so the parts do not collapse.)
The solution returns later today UK with the answer.
Meanwhile, NO SPOILERS. Instead, please propose (non obvious) contenders for the world’s most impactful creation.
Laura Miller
En passionerad livsstilsbloggare som älskar att dela enkla lösningar för en mer harmonisk vardag.
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