One of the only artifacts left inside the ruinous school house was an age old Pratt & Whitney Tape-O-Matic drill. This behemoth of a mechanism had to weight well over one thousand pounds, which likely points toward why it was simply left to rot away. Operation consisted of feeding a reel of raised tape into the machine which would be mechanically interpretated and serve as the instruction set for whatever material needed to be milled. Posted below is a Tape-O-Matic advertisement.
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