The Cigarette machine

Engineerguy videos & audio by Bill Hammack

Aug 18, 20142:41Education

Bill nominates, perhaps only provocatively, James Bosnack's cigarette machine as the invention with the greatest economic impact on the 20th century. Cigarettes, as compared to pipes and cigars, are and the most direct w...

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