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Hoke's Tool Co.

From an isolated workshop in a distant windswept town came a constant stream of dazzling leaps of mechanical imagination. While many of these brilliant tools have been lost, researchers at the Institute of Backyard Studies have uncovered a number of notable works. Still more can be found in Henry Hoke's Guide to the Misguided.

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    • "The elementary machines that form the basis of most complex technology: the lever, the inclined plane and wedge, the pulley, the wheel ... together these form the basis of mechanical advantage"

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