At home: engineering mind

The manual whisk, what a piece of simple engineering genius.

How do all those cogs and wheels turn so effortlessly? How is it possible that the blades are so positioned that they spin aside one another like two helicopter blades. In balanced synchrony, just missing each other just by one tooth of the cog of the wheel.

This whisk has become the new most amazing thing in our house. Whilst shopping in a reclaimed and redesign shop, Sam came across the whisk. "This is amazing!" he said. I smiled, realising that manual whisks where not part of Sam's memory bank. He knows automatic whisk. He lives in the work of pre discovered technology. Button, switches, dials, immediacy. We came from the world of wheels, cogs, pushing, winding, waiting. I love meeting these objects again. Like an old friend.

Sam passed it to his younger brother Beau. He started winding the handle. The blades began spinning. He closed one eye to evaluate the spin. The process started again. "Amazing", says Beau....x