Are You Able to Solve It? That Forgotten Dutch Creation Which Forged the Modern Globe

One can find numerous contenders for the title of “world’s most significant invention.” The wheel. The movable type. The combustion motor.

According to a recent publication, however, that honor should go to a mechanised timber mill conceived through Dutchman Corneliszoon van Uitgeest in 1593.

“Before automated cutting, building a modest merchant vessel necessitated approximately 10 lumberjacks laboring for 90 days,” notes the author. “With wind-powered sawmills, an identical quantity of cut lumber might be produced within a week.”

Thanks to their rapid mechanical saw, that turned logs to boards using virtually no manual labor, Dutch builders were able to construct vessels faster than anyone else, which unleashed a century of Netherlands maritime, financial and cultural supremacy across Europe and the globe.

The Original True Industrial Machine

The inventor's lumber mill, argues Dávila, was “humanity’s initial true industrial apparatus.” A windmill rotated a gear. One component converted the circular motion to vertical action for the saw. A separate mechanism changed the spinning motion into a sideway’s movement advancing the log to the blade. A geared mechanism shifted the log ahead a measured step each cycle.

“Each element seemed simple on its own. The Dutchman’s brilliance lay in how to integrate them so they acted within a precisely synchronized order, sawing with each descending stroke while moving on every upward stroke. This constituted a remarkably intelligent use of basic parts.”

A fact that brings us up to today’s puzzle. I’d like you to reinvent a key the fundamental ideas behind this historic invention.

Circular to Vertical

Design a mechanism that turns circular motion to vertical motion. You have these components only: A spinning wheel. Two pegs. Two rods. A “guide”, which is a cylinder or housing through which a single the bars will fit snugly. (Consider that you can put things on a base, so that the components don’t fall down.)

The solution returns later today UK time with the solution.

In the interim, PLEASE NO HINTS. Rather, please suggest (less celebrated) candidates as the planet’s greatest creation.