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Wooden bowling arm that bested Australian cricketer in 1909 rebuilt
Cambridge engineers recreate mathematician John Venn’s machine that can launch balls at 33mph
It was reportedly so accurate that when members of the Australian cricket team visited Cambridge in 1909, it clean bowled one of their star batsmen four times. Hunt, who has led teams of investigators on the Channel 4 shows Dambusters: Building the Bouncing Bomb and Attack of The Zeppelins, said: “It’s a great story and an ingenious device, and at the time would have been in a lot of newspapers, but now it’s not really remembered outside the cricket world. The Cambridge student Alice Bebb, who is the opening batswoman for the university’s women’s cricket team, tested the machine.
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