Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 3 · column 2 of 7 · from the scan, no model involved
dents to the school library to research the historic machines they were building. “I had (the students) write twoparagraph abstracts from the (textbook) instructions and library research, short enough so somebody would read it,” Mr. Vickers explained.
Students’ scaled-down working models now are on display inside the school’s display case, which is located in the main hall.
Eleven historic machines were built by students, some with names seemingly impossible to pronounce. The Tympanum is one, a Greek device that in its day was used for raising water. The Shadouf is another, and offered a good example of students’ ingenuity. To improvise a water-holding piece described as a “burlap bag,” the student who created the Shadouf cut a piece of window blind to form a cone. When the cone didn’t hold water,
82.8%