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Handy Farm Devices And How To Make Them. No Tech Magazine. LOW-TECH MAGAZINE. Old Skills, Hand-Made Tools & Primitive Technology. The Museum Of Old Techniques. For almost every electronic device or oil driven machine there used to be a low-tech alternative that was powered by human muscles, water or wind.

The Museum of Old Techniques aims to collect and study these historical alternatives to modern day machinery. Why, you may ask? To quote the Museum: "Evolution doesn't necessarily mean progress, what we consider to be primitive solutions are often not primitive at all". We could not have said it better ourselves. A somewhat related publication is Edward H. Knight's book contains not only early electric equipment and steam driven machinery, but also human and animal powered machines. Ancient techs.