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How Your Hobby Started

By Carlton M. Mull

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Man's imagination let to the often quoted saying, "Necessity is the Mother of Invention". In early days when men watched the unexplained phenomena of nature that dealt with forces of power, their imagination undoubtedly let to experiments applying energy to useful purposes. Historical records of such events has given us the story of the lives of many great pioneer inventors.

It would be as difficult for an engineer of today to solve problems if he had only the limited knowledge of the wheel, the lever, a vacuum, electricity and many other basic laws of physics and mechanics, as it was for the inventors of the fifteenth century to find solutions to visions they contemplated.

So it was in the time of the great artist, Leonardo da Vinci using his talent and imagination to draw sketches of a cylinder and t...

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