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Complex machine carved ancient rings

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Chinese aesthetes may have been technophiles too.

Theancient Chinese made beautiful jewellery using surprisingly advanced technology, a study hints. The intricately carved spirals on a 2,500-year-old jade ring may have been made by a complex machine, centuries before such devices were thought to have been invented.

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  1. Lu, P. J. Science, 304, 1638 - 1638, (2004).

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