Spinning Copper Making the Air & Fuel Reservoirs for Langley's Aerodrome #5

Using this century-old technique, spinning copper over a wooden buck to create domes which are then soldered together making a sphere for pressurized air or fuel reservoirs. These are aeolipile components for Langley's Aerodrome #5, the first contraption that proved mechanical flight was possible (May 6th 1896).

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Easily got my thumbs up! No stupid music. Nicely presented video which we got to hear the actual sounds of the machinery, tooling, processes, people , etc

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Yes, we thought that might be interesting to hear copper spinning! Thanks.

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Luke Lindley, you're a very skilled artist!