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Comments on Brick Road-Printing Machine
Now with Disney and Thunderbirds update! Pretty impressive machine performs a difficult task admirably well; those of us who have done this task by hand salute the designers. (Read
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| "Thunderbirds (again!) features an automated road laying machine on a far larger scale in the episode "End of the Road" (1965), which can blast cuttings through mountains, flattens the ground, lays the road surface, and paints the lane markings, all in one pass." ( 11/17/2010 1:45:54 AM) |
| "Take a look at this excerpt from that episode; the road laying machine starts at around 5:15 of 'End of the Road':
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| "Take a look at the atomic road building machine (and borer) in the 1958 Disney program Magic Highway USA starting at about 2:15.
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