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Some of the information regarding Simplified Technology is presently in locked files because it is copyrighted information. The concept behind putting it on this site in that manner is to gather the information now and to archive it in a form that may possibly be disseminated later. Some of the information here could as well as have gone under farming or pioneering skills. There is so much information about using bicyles, that while they might have gone under simple machines, they have gotten a category of their own. The same applies to windmills and waterwheels. Some of the decisions as where to put information have been arbitrary but there is just too much to put it all under one category, so the reader needs to look under all the categories when studying the subject.

Basic Machines: The Basic Principles of Machinery

This 168 page .pdf book is open and available for downloading NOW. It covers levers, block and tackle, plane and wedge, and on up through hydraulic devices, and internal combustion engines, and more.

Simple Machines: Descriptions of Simple Machines

This 81 page .pdf book from MIT explains how to build dozens of primitive machines, drills, lathes, pumps, and all sorts of other useful devices. Currently a locked file because of copyright.

Farm Devices: Patterns for Simple Farm Devices

This 150 page .pdf book shows how farmers built their own devices in the 1700s and 1800s (and for perhaps centuries earlier). Practical ideas that are still used today.

Scythes: A tool of the centuries

This 63 page .pdf copyrighted and presently sealed book covers one of the most basic and essential tools of the centuries. Along with ax, hoe, hammer and shovel, it has been essential to the establishment of civilization. Largely displaced by modern harvesting methods it is a technology that may need to be at least temporarily "recovered".

Blacksmithing: An essential technology

This 132 page .pdf copyrighted and presently sealed book covers an essential technology that may have to be recovered. About a hundred years ago every village would have one or more blacksmiths, but then the skill largely disappeared except as retained by farriers (horse shoeing is another subject) and some ornamental artists.

Regulator: How to build your own alternator regulator

SEALED: How to build your own alternator regulator

This is the SEALED mirrored version of this site that won't be opened until after The Great Catastrophe. The above open link is to the original Forcefield Site.

Float Switch: How to build a float switch

SEALED: How to build a float switch

This is the SEALED mirrored version of this site that won't be opened until after The Great Catastrophe. The above open link is to the original Forcefield Site.

Propane Conversion: How to do a gas to propane conversion

SEALED: How to do a gas to propane conversion

This is the SEALED mirrored version of this site that won't be opened until after The Great Catastrophe. The above open link is to the original Forcefield Site.

LED Conversion: How to convert flashlights to use LEDs

SEALED: How to convert flashlights to use LEDs

This is the SEALED mirrored version of this site that won't be opened until after The Great Catastrophe. The above open link is to the original Forcefield Site.

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