It blows my mind to think of how it must have been machining those gears back then, although I don't really know how old this photo is.
Another thing to consider, between the engineer(s) who designed this monstrosity and the machinists that made it, the design and building process has to be so precise to get the backlash correct on those gears. Not sure how you would even adjust that on this machine.
I wonder what it was used for?
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