I picked “Simple Working Models of Historic Machines” because since I was a kid I found machinery interesting, that is one of the reasons I became an Engineer, I used to disassemble things and try to assemble them again.
One of the machines in this book is the “Chinese South-pointing Chariot” a mechanism that was built to point South at all times, regardless of the direction you walking to. It doesn’t really exist anymore as machinery nowadays, we know of its existence since 200 CE so it does have a history. It is basically a compass but it only tells you where the South is, which is enough information to know in what direction are you traveling.
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The text above is my intro. I'm planing to go deeper into this amazing gear machine and the history behind it. Another option I have is "Environmental Conservation" which is on page 50 of The NextWhole Earth Catalog" this is my second choice because I want to know if the environmental issues back then were the same ones we have today, and what was their interpretation of the environmental issues on the future.
Jose Christian Morris Huerta
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