S29E6 · Fireplace Bellows, Calissons, Diving Watercraft

Fireplace Bellows, Calissons, Diving Watercraft

S29E6 · 2017-03-20 · 21 min

Shaped wooden boards are joined by flexible leather chambers and fitted with valves and nozzles to create fireplace bellows. Almonds and candied fruit are ground into a paste, formed over wafers and covered with icing to make calissons, while a streamlined hull, engine, controls and movable fins are combined into a recreational watercraft capable of diving beneath the surface and leaping from the water.

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