I love the history of innovations —
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That is, a motor that would sit in your house and spin, and you could move it around and use it to power whatever things needed spinning.
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(Sewing machines and fans or whatever)
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Ad text: "You can use the same motor for whipping cream, beating eggs, or mixing mayonnaise. You can keep your knives keen and sharp."
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@starsandrobots The East Germans put this into practice with the Purimix, a blender/floor waxer/vacuum cleaner/meat grinder/etc. -
@starsandrobots On the other end of the spectrum, the first Bell System phone switch was first designed to run off a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_shaft
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@starsandrobots USB power is the new home motor -
@macegr hmmmmmm USB power :: the grid, no? - End of conversation
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@starsandrobots@timhwang this used to be a thing with Model T Fords too. You could use its motor for all kinds of household spinning.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@starsandrobots@leastfixedpoint reasonable, given that lots of home appliances of the time could be hooked up to it, probably -
@psygnisfive@starsandrobots It makes me think of the wane of general-purpose computing
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