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Wednesday, 18 August 2010 05:43 |
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My father and I built a scale, working model of a canal lock for my 7th grade history class. It was a marvel of chicken wire, sawdust, and white glue landscape, tubing, pumps, working lock gates, and moving water. It was beautiful, and it worked. It was an Erie canal lock, but much like those of the less well known D&L canal system, and there in that museum was a larger scale working lock, just like the one we built in our basement shop. While ours was long ago lost at the hands of my history teacher, who was not so much an archivist and allowed it to fall into ruin, the one sitting in the museum still worked beautifully. I was in heaven. The working canal lock my father and I built was more of a toy than anything else. Many other things my father built for me were toys, whether for fun, or for school: kites that looked like jets, toy motors made of nails and wire, an electronically controlled incubator to hatch chicken eggs, and a die cast vehicle construction site that emulated the massive construction of the Robert Moses power plant that was ongoing for much of my childhood. I had little choice but to become a toy inventor and a rocket scientist. It was my destiny.
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