Toothpick engineering from Popular Science, Feb 1940

Dr. M. Russell Stein was a dentist in New York city who built models of human jaws, bridges, and ferris wheels out of toothpicks. The Feb 1940 issue of Popular Science has an article about his remarkable creations.

Toothpick engineering is dentist's hobby

[#1 posted by noen , December 12, 2008 12:42 PM]

What people did before the internet. Now he plays WoW.

[#2 posted by IamInnocent , December 12, 2008 4:16 PM]

I like this one which says it all.

[#3 posted by FoetusNail , December 12, 2008 4:18 PM]

Damn he's makes some great stuff.

Goto page 108, Merry-Go-Round

[#4 posted by arkizzle , December 12, 2008 4:22 PM]

Innocent, post your link again, the tag was left open..

[#5 posted by Abelard Lindsay , December 12, 2008 4:42 PM]

Noen,

Naw, his legacy lives on in the form of Chicago's own Wayne Kusy

[#6 posted by FoetusNail , December 12, 2008 5:09 PM]

Arkizzle, blank post, is the ghost at work?

[#7 posted by Antinous , December 12, 2008 5:23 PM]

Fixed.

[#8 posted by IamInnocent , December 12, 2008 6:02 PM]

TK

[#9 posted by douglips , December 12, 2008 9:38 PM]

I thought this looked familiar: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/11/toothpick-engineerin.html

[#10 posted by arkizzle , December 12, 2008 10:03 PM]

Foetus: Who ya gonna call?

*Antinous!*

(doesn't have the same ring, but he seems to have gotten the ghost)

[#11 posted by FoetusNail , December 13, 2008 12:45 AM]

Thanks to everyone! Especially Antinous the Wise and Wonderful.

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[#12 posted by arkizzle , December 13, 2008 3:09 PM]

Foetus, that StandByMe link is just amazing, thanks!

[#13 posted by Takuan , December 13, 2008 3:26 PM]

what Ark said.

[#14 posted by Modusoperandi , December 14, 2008 12:40 AM]

And then he got lucky. After that, the toothpick hobby lost its appeal.