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I'll retract that part of my comment.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
telling us that the ancient Egyptians understood the principles of rollers, pulleys, and leverage.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+Recent findings are that they understood how to make and pour concrete.
Considering that the last Pharaoh was doing some guy named Caesar and the Romans most assuredly knew concrete (knew something we don't apparently if the longevity of their concrete structures vs ours is any indicator) it seems very likely that the Egyptians if they didn't know before picked it up from the Romans.
That's just too far fetched. I'm sticking with the alien theory.
My guess is it may have been the other way around.
Not really. The early scene shows the motor, the rotor clearly has a centrifugal switch built in. He just has a bit of dirt/sawdust in the start switch contacts. If he finds them, and burnishes them, like by rubbing with a strip of paper, it all starts working like new. It isn't a capacitor-start motor.
As for the bad bearing, perhaps that's a misattribution of dried out grease, which can be fixed with solvent/heat and new grease).
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