Multitasking in 1500s! The Book Wheel


	Multitasking in 1500s! The Book Wheel

stevemt

12-6-2006 4:51 AM

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stevemt says:

This is a pretty cool picture of a innovative design of a book machine allowing the person to read multiple books without needing to move, or get up.

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					<P align="center"><IMG src="http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/readingwheel.jpg" alt="readingwheel.jpg" id="image1078" /></p> <P>In 1588, the Italian Engineer <A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8%26location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FVarious-Ingenious-Machines-Agostino-Ramelli%2Fdp%2F0486281809%26tag=proceedinofth-20%26linkCode=ur2%26camp=1789%26creative=9325">Agostino Ramelli</A> described a novel invention to facilitate the reading of multiple books at once:</p> <BLOCKQUOTE><P>A beautiful and ingenious machine, which is very useful and convenient to every person who takes pleasure in study, especially those who are suffering from indisposition or are subject to gout: for with this sort of machine a man can see and read a great quantity of books, without moving his place: besides, it has this fine convenience, which is, of occupying a little space in the place where it is set, as any person of understanding can appreciate from the drawing.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>The machine makes an appearance in Richard Lester’s 1974 film <EM>The Three Musketeers</EM>, and is described in <A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8%26location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FHistory-Reading-Alberto-Manguel%2Fdp%2F0140166548%2Fsr=8-1%2Fqid=1163650287?ie=UTF8%26s=books%26tag=proceedinofth-20%26linkCode=ur2%26camp=1789%26creative=9325"><EM>A History of Reading</EM></A> by Alberto Manguel.</p> <P>* Another invention to make reading easier: <A href="http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/?p=85">Lying Down Glasses</A>.
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