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THE WHOLE EARTH CATALOG

If you don't know what is "the Whole Earth Catalog" don't feel bad, you're one more person who haven't heard from this book and it's content. Let me explain, The Whole Earth Catalog was first published by Stewart Brand between 1968 until 1972. This book had from covert the first photo of the Earth from outer space; on this book you could found almost everything, it had reviews of books, articles, products, etc. and the contact information so that if you needed or desired to buy one of those things you could contact them directly. On this book or catalog you could find a great variety of topics, from simple topic like "How to grow plants" (agriculture) or "How to navigate using the stars" (astronomy) to more complex topics like "How build ancient machinery" (engineering), and even random topics like "How to stop a trip from drugs" (some kind of medicine). This book for the people of that age was like the Internet for us nowadays, something where you could look at trying to solve a question you have and getting the answer by buying the article or product that talks about the topic you where doing research on. Steve Jobs said "It was sort like Google in paperback form..." the author accomplished his goal which was the idea of a book on which anyone could find the entire infor

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.