"John L. Poole" wrote in message
damian penney wrote:
Check out these tables, amazing.

"It is a circular table which, when rotated at its outer perimeter,
doubles its seating capacity, yet astonishingly remains truly
circular."

http://www.dbfletcher.com/capstan/

This is amazing, the smaller circle perimeter is a shell containing the
leaves which have the arcs of the larger circle. The design of the
hardware so that one person can maneuver the transformation is brilliant.

It is amazing, although the girl in one of the videos is an athlete ... look
closely and you can see that it took her body weight to get the thing
moving.

Still ... a very nice engineering feat, and impressive bit of woodworking!

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