Weren't the screw and the lawyer invented about the same time?
Rude E
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On 4/26/2010 7:24 AM, Ruth Barton wrote:
> BTW: Question of the day--When were screws invented?
>
one choice is 1446 or therabouts according to Rybczynski, if we are
talking not Archimedes' screw
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