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I'm sorry, but that's definitely not a bombe; the wires are obviously modern, and rubber was too valuable in WW2 to be used for rubber bands
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The NIN picture is of their Lighting Dimming system, not anything to do with the sound system ("sound console"). The DMX cable provides the control signal, the dimmers translate that control into power for each light/circuit.
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The second to last image looks like it's from a tram depot. The title is correct, if communication = public transportation :)
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@Bartek is right, the second last photo is the overhead wiring for trains or trams.
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@cthel
It is the rebuilt colossus that was completely quite recently. Hence the modern wiring and rubber bands.
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Love the images. But the second to last photo is incorrect. It's like wiring from trains
PS. I just started a new blog. You mind if you check it out? maybe even comment about it/pass it around if you can? It'd be awesome if you could
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No, it's not Colossus: the rebuilt Colossus is grey. That's the internal view of the rebuilt Bombe in the museum at Bletchley Park, UK.
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@cthel, @anonymous,
That is actually lacing tape, a waxed cotton ribbon used for wiring harnesses. It is still used in modern aviation due to it being less bulky than zipties and it will not chafe the wire insulation. Also rubber definitely would have been allowed to be used since these machines were critical to the war effort.
Lacing tape @ wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_lacing
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I am a lighting designer and the NIN picture has nothing to do with sound! Those are lighting dimmers and 5 pin DMX is a control protocol for theatrical lighting.
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great compilaation, I remember once Prince Phillip the husband of the queen, visiting a factory seeing a messed up wiring and claimimg that the place look like it was built by an Indian. That caused a storm
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That bombe image looks like it's a photo of the rebuild version you can see here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bombe-rebuild.jpg
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This is awesome! I clicked on it because I thought it said "fantastically intense writing," but this is better. I really love this kind of quirky imagery.
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Love this series!
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The picture of Fifth Avenue, 1913...can you imagine how bad the petrol fumes would have been?
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Brilliant article Avi and love those pics! New York is one awesome city!
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The blimp picture collage includes a blimp with the Nazi swastika on it...surely that's not in New York?
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kopapaka / www.palba.cz
quote: "Blogger Francesca said...
The blimp picture collage includes a blimp with the Nazi swastika on it...surely that's not in New York?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_129_Hindenburg
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About the Blimp with a Nazi Swastika. The Hindenburg was a German airship after all. The Nazis were in power for several years before the war started and regular trade did take place so it's not too surprising to see a Swastika on a blimp.
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The Hotel Edison is still standing and seems to have been spiffed up in recent years. Also, a few of the black & white photos are by Samuel Gottscho. The Museum of the City of New York has many more in its digital collection. I just showcased a bunch of them on my blog - http://bit.ly/eqt5fk
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Thank you Michele, credit adjusted, great info
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The ship in the 5th photo down is the "SS American Star" that was wrecked in the Canary Islands during the 1990s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_America_(1940)
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Where are the feel good boys?
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Nice shirt. Nice model too. :D
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DRB has a feel good shirt model! I feel good. I might just buy a shirt!
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Thank you for the link love in this post. I hope you find more to feature from ephemera this year...
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those barrels are Kegs.. :D
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Merry winter solstice for all of you, also.
Thank you very much for this year of amazing discoveries all around the world. Eskerrik asko!
Pedro Iñaki
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Trinity Church looks like something out of a fantasy world.
Thanks for all the great links, pictures, art and general connection to good things in the world, DRB. I hope 2011 is the best year yet for you.
- R.
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Thanks for a great site, and have a great 2011!
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What was in the box then????
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Always good to see Carl Barks' paintings.
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A unicorn was in the box. One of the comments on Youtube translates the dialogue.
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The sea foam crashing is an awesome shot.
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what stunning imagery, magical descriptions and an awesome creature.
i have a new favourite animal. absolutely spectacular.
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It's worth saying that these animals are extremely shy. When I saw one, it was from a lodge that overlooked a small dam, so the platypus didn't know we were there. An Australian present said in awe, "Ninety-five percent of Australians will never see one in the wild."
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the plural of 'platypus' is correctly 'platypodes' although everyone in oz just says 'platypii'
(yeah i'm an aussie)
i lived in the country and has a family of platypus in the creedk behind my house. such beautiful animals!
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You are correct about the proper plural of platypus. The same ending goes with "octopus" since that word, also, was of Greek origin. The "i" words (octupi, platypi) presume the words were originally Latin. RR, you were so lucky to live near a family of them - I've never seen a live one.
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Aww, I'd love to give one a cuddle...
And then scream for a few weeks afterwards while the venom works its way out.
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As a (former) Australian I am happy to see Perry the Platypus as the silent chick-magnet character on Phineas and Ferb and a worthy nemesis of the evil Heinz Doofenshmirtz.
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They are common, not rare. There are some at my property and I have seen them in the day, even when having a party ! Water-birds peck at them to make them dive and drive up other food !
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The mecanical bettle remember me the film "Cronos" by Guillermo del Toro. His firts movie.
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I would like to see your source for John Dees "flying " beetle. it is an oft repeated claim but the only proper description I could find of this is in a history of his life
For this play he devised a clever mechanical and very spectacular effect.
Trygaeus, the Attic vine-dresser, carrying a large basket of food for himself, and
mounted on his gigantic beetle or scarab (which ate only dung), was seen ascending
from his dwelling on the stage to enter the palace of Zeus in the clouds above. One
has only to think of the scenic effects presented by Faust and Mephistopheles at Mr.
Tree’s theatre, for instance, to realise how crude and ineffective these attempts must
have been; but thirty or forty years before Shakespeare’s plays were written, so
unusual an exhibition was enough to excite wild rumours of supernatural powers.
From the diagram you print it does not look like something that could actually fly.
Also I think the present day robot makers must be missing something. They seem to be having huge problems getting autonomous robots to walk. Maybe they should try copying George Moores steam man! Although a closer examination of the literature shows
"When he developed a head of steam he could walk, but only in circles, since he was attached to a horezontal radius arm"
But hey why let the facts get in the way of a good story! Oh and why no mention of Faberges stuperb automata?
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Please write "amazing automata" (plur.), "amazing automaton" is singular, so doesn't exist "automatons". Excuse my teacherlike kind !
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Droz, not Doz. I seem to recall the history of the chess player is actually quite a bit more complicated, and may not have been intended as a hoax originally, but I lack the time needed to check. Nice work!
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You should also have a look at the automatons used in the Takayama festival in Gifu prefecture on Japan. I think they are around 400 years old and are quite impressive. There is one interesting one outside a restaurant that has a man "magic trick" with a box. Every time he lifts the box it reveals another item on the menu. It is powered by a water wheel which sits in one of the open drains that line the streets。I found a video of it here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxEUY0Y97Mw
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@World's Tallest Building Planned for Rome in 1939
It was built 13 years later in Warsaw :-/
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