Comments by "Dave Powell" (@davepowell7168) on "Machine Thinking" channel.

  1. Try turning to professional help.
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  2. I enjoyed this programme. I wonder if the Antikithera mechanism used all rivets. I presume early naval clocks also compasses regulated with Flinders bar and Kevin's balls essential for navigation may have needed screws. Certainly steam propulsion.
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  3. I'm a stud. Threaded.
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  4. The expression ^turn the screws ^is derived from hard labour imprisonment where convicts had to turn a crank which could be made even harder by screws. Oscar Wilde (author and playwright) served time at Reading Gaol which had a crank and treadmill.
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  5. I remember metric, imperial and Whitworth nuts and bolts.
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