Dr. M. Russell Stein was a dentist in New York city who built models of human jaws, bridges, and ferris wheels out of toothpicks. The Feb 1940 issue of Popular Science has an article about his remarkable creations.
Toothpick engineering from Popular Science, Feb 1940
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