The old industrial machines are a great bargain. If they run at all they’ll work better than a modern machine, and they’ll likely outlast you when used for typical home/hobby tasks.

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"Every great machine represents a triumph of its moment," says William Brown, director of the Eli Whitney Museum in Hamden. "Old machines are so much more transparent than today's electronics.

Arconic has plenty of other vintage machines, including an even larger 50,000 ton press in Cleveland built in the 1950s, which it recently spent $100 million completely renovating.

In Britain in the early 19th century, the industrial revolution was under way, but there was also an economic crunch. Workers faced inflation and reduced wages. And for those in the textile ...