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Are You Able to Solve This? That Forgotten Netherlands Invention Which Forged the Contemporary Globe
One can find many contenders for the title of “world’s greatest innovation.” The circular axle. The movable type. The combustion motor.
According to a recent publication, though, that honor belongs to the automated sawmill invented through Dutchman Cornelis Corneliszoon during 1593.
“Prior to automated cutting, building a modest merchant vessel required approximately 10 lumberjacks laboring over 90 days,” notes the author. “With wind-powered lumber mills, the same quantity of cut lumber could be produced in less than a week.”
Thanks to their speedy automated cutter, which turned timber to boards using virtually no manual labor, the Dutch were able to build ships faster than any other nation, which unleashed one hundred years of Netherlands maritime, economic as well as artistic dominance across the continent and the world.
The Original Genuine Manufacturing Machine
Corneliszoon’s sawmill, contends Dávila, was “mankind’s initial true factory apparatus.” A wind turbine rotated a gear. One component converted its rotary movement to up-and-down action for the cutting blade. Another component transformed that same spinning movement into a sideway’s movement feeding the timber toward the blade. A geared mechanism shifted the log forward a measured step each stroke.
“Every component was simple by itself. Corneliszoon’s brilliance was to combine these parts in order that the machine acted in a perfectly controlled sequence, sawing on every downward stroke while moving on every return stroke. It was a remarkably clever application of fundamental parts.”
Which leads us to today’s puzzle. The task is for you to reimagine one of the basic ideas underpinning this historic invention.
Circular to Vertical
Design a machine which converts rotary movement into vertical action. Your available these components exclusively: A spinning wheel. Two pegs. Two bars. A “sleeve”, which is a tube or sleeve through which a single the bars will fit snugly. (Consider that you can mount components on a base, so that the components do not collapse.)
I’ll be back later today UK time with the solution.
In the interim, NO SPOILERS. Instead, please suggest (non obvious) candidates as the planet’s most impactful invention.
James Shepherd
A seasoned business strategist with over a decade of experience in digital marketing and corporate growth initiatives.
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