# Oldest machines that are still in practical use

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 14, 2015, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-machines-that-are-still-in-practical-use/722508 "2015-06-14T14:09:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-machines-that-are-still-in-practical-use/722508/101 "2015-09-16T14:00:22Z")

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We’ve got a cast iron sausage press that dates from the 1870s that is used several times a year to make boudin. I don’t know if that’s enough of a machine for this thread, since it has a hand crank, but it works as well as it ever has (as far as I know!).

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