slide rules and pouring and scraping babbet bearings - woo hoo, we're old school here! Talking of old school, did anyone here get Lindsays catalogs before he retired?
http://www.lindsaybks.com/ Specialised in republishing old engineering texts. On making rivetted steam boilers - that kind of thing. I think its where I learned about babett metal.
When I learned how to cut and tap (40 yrs ago), I thought it was the coolest thing. Ever since, I cut threads at any opportunity.