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Re: Circa 1885 George Eli Whitney model engine
« on: March 09, 2021, 11:29:20 pm »
Quote from: tom1356 on March 09, 2021, 11:24:06 pm
George made 100 steam engines for Singer sewing machines to export to China. Foot binding prevented them from using a treadle. Is it possible this was one of them?

Certainly a possibility, though things like this surviving and coming back from the far east are fairly rare I'd think. No reason it couldn't have been used to drive a sewing machine, or small machine tool like a lathe somewhere in the "western world" as well.
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