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The MultiMachine all-purpose machine tool that can be built by a semi-skilled mechanic with just common hand tools. For machine construction, electricity can be replaced with “elbow grease” and the necessary material can come from discarded vehicle parts. What can the MultiMachine be used for in developing countries?

AGRICULTURE:
Building and repairing irrigation pumps and farm implements.


WATER SUPPLIES:
Making and repairing water pumps and water-well drilling rigs.


FOOD SUPPLIES:
Building steel-rolling-and-bending machines for making fuel efficient cook stoves and other cooking equipment.


TRANSPORTATION:
Anything from making cart axles to rebuilding vehicle clutch, brake, and other parts.


EDUCATION:
Building simple pipe-and-bar-bending machines to make school furniture, providing “hands on” training on student-built MultiMachines that they take with them when they leave school.


JOB CREATION:
A group of specialized but easily built MultiMachines can be combined to form a small, very low cost, metal working factory which could also serve as a trade school. Students could be taught a single skill on a specialized machine and be paid as a worker while learning other skills that they could take elsewhere.


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