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  2. Marble (toy) - Wikipedia

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    A very large American-made marble-making machine at Bovey Tracey, Devon, England. Marbles are made using many techniques. They can be categorized into two general types: hand-made and machine-made. Marbles were originally made by hand. Stone or ivory marbles can be fashioned by grinding.

  3. Pointing machine - Wikipedia

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    Workshop of the Strasbourg cathedral A computer controlled router carving a sculpture from a block of marble 15th Century measuring device with plumb-bobs. A pointing machine is a measuring tool used by stone sculptors and woodcarvers to accurately copy plaster, clay or wax sculpture models into wood or stone. In essence the device is a ...

  4. Martin Frederick Christensen - Wikipedia

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    On 19 December 1902, Martin F. Christensen filed U.S. Patent No. 802495A, [7] for a machine that made spherical bodies or balls. The patent was published on 24 October 1905. [8] The first machine-made marbles were created in a barn behind Christensen's house, which led to a manufacturing facility. [9] This machine could only round one marble at ...

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  6. Marble sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Lorenzo Bartolini, (Italian, 1777–1850), La Table aux Amours (The Demidoff Table), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Marble sculpture. Marble has been the preferred material for stone monumental sculpture since ancient times, with several advantages over its more common geological "parent" limestone, in particular the ability to absorb light a small distance into the surface before ...

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  8. Stonemasonry - Wikipedia

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    A 15-storey apartment building in La Tourette (Marseille), designed by Fernand Pouillon.Constructed using the massive precut stone method. Gobekli Tepe, early monumental Neolithic stonemasonry using flint-carved limestone columns (~9500 BCE) 12th-century stonemasonry at Angkor Wat Diamond-wire saw in use for quarrying marble Stonemason working with medieval tools Stonemasonry with andesite ...

  9. Bush hammer - Wikipedia

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    In 1831, Joseph Richards (1784–1848) invented the bush hammer. The US patent was issued February 20, 1828, for a stone-working tool, with a patent number of 5010X.