Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/124 - Drawing a Straight Line/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $124$ - Drawing a Straight Line
Martin Gardner, in his $1968$ repackaging 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems, mentions 1877: A.B. Kempe: How to Draw a Straight Line, in which a number of other linkages are described, all doing the same job.
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- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Plane Geometry Puzzles: $303$. Drawing a Straight Line