One of the inventions which most astonished me as a boy was the
coordinated mechanism allowing machine guns to fire through the arc of
the propeller of a Bf109 fighter. The crank driving both was an
amazingly elegant solution (When I discovered the engine was actually
built around a canon firing through the propeller boss, I was doubly
impressed).
Today's invention is loosely related to this synchronisation idea.
Read more: http://iotd.patrickandrews.com/2011/02/02/1496-loadlift/
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