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Popular Science: A 1967 foot-powered tool you could build today—if you wanted to

By Bill Gourgey

Popular Science: A 1967 foot-powered tool you could build today—if you wanted to
Tech & DIY
  • Publisher: Popular Science
  • Editor: Marina Galperina
  • Published: April 24, 2023

This vintage Popular Science tutorial invokes spinning wheels and DIY guitar pedals.

FROM ANCIENT treadwheel cranes to modern guitar effects pedals, the creative energy of our feet has come a long way. Roman aqueducts, medieval castles, and Gothic cathedrals were raised, mega-stone by mega-stone, by machines powered by human-size hamster wheels...

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A 1967 foot-powered tool you could build today...

Many thanks to Marina Galperina, Popular Science Managing Editor.


Series: Articles & Essays Tagged with: DIY, foot pedal, pedal effects, Popular Science, power tools, science, stair climber, tools, treadle

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