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A Whale-Oiled Machine
99% Invisible
The End of Nye Lubricants
In 1966, a British engineer named Peter Joost published a paper that would become the Constitution for the small but growing field of research he dubbed tribology. To this day, if you walk into a tribology conference you can bet people are talking about the so-called Joost report. It found that unnecessary wear and tear to machinery caused by bad lubrication was dragging down the nation's productivity by more than 1% of GDP. Today, the whole world moves on a thin film of lubricating oil. Without it, no moving part operate.
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