Article 6NDF8 Wooden bowling arm that bested Australian cricketer in 1909 rebuilt

Wooden bowling arm that bested Australian cricketer in 1909 rebuilt

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Cambridge engineers re-create mathematician Dr John Venn's machine, which launched balls at 33mph

A wooden contraption that bowled out an Australian international cricketer four times in 1909 has been re-created by engineers at the University of Cambridge.

The bowling machine was designed by Dr John Venn, the mathematician who gave his name to Venn diagrams, in the early 1900s.

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