High-quality black-and-white photographs of large old machines and tools

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yes it sure would be something to see all these things in action. about 8 years ago in Milan ITALY under one of the Leonardo daVinci museems, yes under. there is a old machine shop from long long ago. big wooden chevron cut gears for no thrust& smooth running and many wire streachers/sizers, as well as some lathes and something that took me a while to work out just what it was and how it worked. it was a D O M,( drawn over mandrl) pipe manufacturing machine. it was awesome to see.all of in in the dirt floor under the building. I wish I had more time there but they had a big function going on and closing early and I was off to switzerland the next day. I love going to Italy .