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What is this antique mystery machine? Historical society needs help figuring it out.

Allan Rose Hill
Nov 01, 2024
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image: Dorchester County Historical Society

What is this contraption? It's been sitting for decades in the Maryland storage space of the Dorchester County Historical Society but nobody knows what it does or where the hell it came from. Can you help?

Executive director Zoe Phillips says it appears to be more than 100-years-old and that the electric motor w…

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