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Today it's hard to find a medical thermometer that isn't digital. And certainly no mercury filled thermometers, which are banned from sale by many governments around the world.
The first recorded thermometer was produced around 1612 by the Italian, Santorio Santorio (1561-1636), one of a group of Venetian scientists. The mercury-in-glass thermometer was invented in 1714 by physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit in Amsterdam.
This is an old Nextel/Motorola two-way flip phone that I used back in the day.
I kind of miss the simplicity of it and when a phone was just a phone, not everything.
Who uses a paper copy dictionary, when in moments you can search on the web? Was interested in the defintion of 'photograph' found in this 1946 edition I stumbled across... ('chemical action'.... well yes, I guess back in the day.....)
For Macro Mondays - Back In The Day.
I have a modest collection of vintage cameras, but this Kodak was my paternal Grandfathers so it's a bit special I guess...HMM
Before decimalisation in 1971 the term £sd or LSD in the UK was synonymous with money (librae, solidi, denarii or pounds shillings and pence). £sd is represented here by a 1912 gold sovereign (pound), a 1948 shilling and a 1965 penny on a pile of other pre-decimal coinage. I was surprised to find that this use of the term was only 35th in the list of LSD possibilities on Wikipedia and placed in the category "other". How times have changed!
Once commonly used. This meat mincer languishes at the back of a cupboard. It belonged to my Grandparents then my Parents, it's now mine! HMM
My father-in-law, may he rest in peace, loved math. Here is his circular slide rule set (approximately) to the square root of 2, for #MacroMondays #BackInTheDay.
Phone from when products were built to last forever. My great aunt used this phone until her death in 2016.
Macro Mondays.
My house was built in 1964. In the kitchen there is this - TV plug? I guess it is some kind of antenna from #backintheday ? I've definitely never used it before. This Macro Mondays challenge is the most useful it's ever been to me!
MACRO MONDAYS
Monday April 2
#MacroMondays
#BackInTheDay
Old token used in France in telephone booths (PTT = Telegraph and Telephones)
A well used map book. I don't think you can buy these anymore, because everyone uses GPS, but they still come in handy. When young people see this, they look at it as if they're antiques that they've never actually seen in person. They have a "wow" factor.
I remember Dad setting up the movie projector, the screen, closing all the curtains in the living room and mom popping pop corn on the stove. We all took our places on the floor to watch the show and as soon as the lights were out and the movie or slides started, something would go wrong with the projector and the lights would come back on, and Dad would fiddle with the projector. We loved watching the old home movies and reliving the stories.
I came across this 1929 edition of a Gregg's Shorthand book at an estate sale last week. Definitely "Back in the Day". HMM
Comments always welcomed.
Old-fashioned and worn out. Worked for so long and enjoying the well deserved retirement. The old foot pedal Singer sewing machine of the grandma replaced by one with the motor...
We still use pennies (for the time being) but they just don't make them like they used to. (for Macro Mondays' theme)
circa 1900s
Glass silver nitrate negative plates at back
lens mounted on a leather bellows
Black circle manual appature selector,
shutter on f22
note only three appatures F11, F22, F44,
Brass lens mount
top left shutter release
below safety catch to lock after exposure to prevent double exposure
on the left hight adjustment for bellows
focusing by moving the lens bellows and peering at an inverted image on a ground glass plate at the rear of the camera
This is an heirloom comb that belonged to one of my husband's ancesters, either his grandmother or great grandmother. HMM!
Macro Mondays: #MacroMondays #BackInTheDay
This came out of a 60s Radio and has been lurking in one of my workshop drawers ever since :-)
The Fish Knife - once commonplace, but now virtually non-existent. So, hopefully, is Broiled Scrod.
A focus stack of 124 images using Helicon Focus for stacking and digiCamControl for shooting.
English : self timer , autorelease
“Knipsen’(Germany) = taking a photo (snapshot)
Spring loaded device that opens a slot at the bottom when the bar with the red dot is rotated . In the slot the knob of a release cable can be attached . The mechanism is activated by unlocking a second bar on the side . After a few seconds the release button on the camera -where the other end of cable is fixed to- , is pushed .
(for #MacroMondays #BackInTheDay
Vintage 8mm cine (film) camera produced by the Swiss company Bolex from 1959-1963.
Specifications: www.bolexcollector.com/cameras/b8sl.html
Video: youtu.be/DZEzVm4F_cw
Nikon D7100 + Tokina 100mm f/2.8 FX Macro Lens (AT-X M100 AF PRO D AF 100mm f/2.8)
+ Nikon Speedlight SB-700 Flash (BOUNCED)
f/8 @ 1/60 @ iso 2000
(tweaked in Smart Photo Editor)