Originally shared by The Economist This autumn, if all goes well,

Originally shared by The Economist

This autumn, if all goes well, a new exhibit will go on show at the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC. It will be a life-sized model of a 5m-year-old fossil whale found in Chile in 2011. The model will be the largest object ever made by the new production technology of three-dimensional (3D) printing http://econ.st/YImOSo

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Largest object ever created with 3d printing? Bullshit. I bet poor Dr. Pyenson got misquoted… I’d buy that that’s the largest print ever from a certain type of printer.