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When I first decided to discuss the points of blades, I chose to get technical. I dug out some of my old physics books and thumbed through them, remembering the good old days when the subject was all new and exciting.
Science was the only thing that kept me in high school. Our science teacher was honest and if he did not know the answer to your question, he would invite you to look it up with him! Most of the other teachers and I did not get along. Consequently, I spent many hours reading what I wanted, hours happily “wasted” in study hall with books focused more on the physical aspects of life. Those aspects included structures, angles, hydraulics and physics, and why some tools and monuments to man, built by man, had not survived and why others still stood. To the amazement of the study hall warden, some of the authors I read were Henry David Thoreau,
