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wdyasq

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Mechanical Marvels
« on: October 29, 2009, 05:51:02 PM »
http://www.archive.org/download/mechanicalmoveme00hiscrich/mechanicalmoveme00hiscrich.pdf


I had this new idea ..... I found drawings of it in this book .... Published over a century ago... oops.


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just a note that .pdf is huge like 66 megs
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Re: Mechanical Marvels
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2009, 06:19:50 PM »
Kurt, not only is it huge, it hangs my Preview app. This pdf is way too big. It's high res scans of a book. For archive purposes, that's fine, but it's a beast to open.


Pages 3 and 4 seem to be blank. I don't know if they are missing or if I got a bad download.


Before you open this, turn off the page drawer feature in your reader and just open one page at a time in order.

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Re: Mechanical Marvels
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2009, 07:31:33 AM »
foxit reader had no problem opening it once i got it on my computer do not try opening it in your browser though lol and yes there were some blank pages for me 2.
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Re: Mechanical Marvels
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2009, 08:10:05 AM »
Hi


What an interesting read.  I had no trouble downloading the PDF file and was able to open it as it downloaded. I don't know if I will ever use it other than for iterest sake I have saved it to my PC, but I love amassing sometimes useless information, my wife and I have enough books between us to start a small library, snd we try to never park near old bookshops..................


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Re: Mechanical Marvels
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2009, 06:08:37 AM »
It does work - but I had to try quite a few different pdf readers before I could open it!


Not had a chance to have a good look at it yet though.

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