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Old 08-04-2010, 01:12 PM   #59
Amber Lamps
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Originally Posted by Papa_Complex View Post
Impossible. New Jersey didn't exist until 1702.

You can do amazing things with tools made out of the same material that you want to work, a work ethic, and patience.

KSGregman, they used such complex tools as rope, wooden rollers, sand, and water.
Thanks man, that's all I'm trying to say....how do they cut diamonds? We have been doing it for hundreds, maybe thousands of years...

I guess that I ASSumed that he knew about logs, ropes, levers, pulleys, scaffolds, fulcrums, etc....All of our "modern" machines/building techniques are simply variations of ancient ones.
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