View allAll Photos Tagged Cable
On the way home now, after being dropped off at Birmingham International station by a considerate colleague. The cable car arrives at the railway station - this system replaced a maglev you know?
Oh, I'm so into cables & bobbles now !
Pattern: Japanese knitting book "アラン模様の小もの"
Yarn: wool 100% (approx.80m per 40g ball) x 3 balls
Needle: #9
amp to speakers : VIABLUE Cables SC-4
phono to preamp : Crystal Cable Piccolo Phono
preamp to amp : Siltech SQ56G3
cd to amp : Siltech SQ58G3
Taking an exhilarating Cable Car ride to the top of Gunung Mat Chinchang, 708m above sea level is an unforgettable experience. The 2.2km journey is full of heart-stopping thrills and its splendours are enhanced by the views across to the coast of southern Thailand and the surrounding islands that a clear day affords.
A remarkable piece of engineering, the Langkawi Cable Car was awarded by The Malaysia Book of Records for ‘the Longest Free Span Single Rope Cable Car - total length of 919.5 meters’ and it is one of the steepest gradients in the world at 42 degrees.
Protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the majestic Mat Chinchang Mountain range has been earmarked as one of the sites within the Langkawi Geopark development and it is part of the Mat Chinchang Formation, the oldest rock formation in the country with an age of about 550 million years.
Factory built in around 1912 for local man Harold W. Smith, specialising in cables and cabling for the mining industry. One of only four works in the country that could produce braided electrical cables at the outbreak of the First World War, as a result was awarded contracts from the Ministry of War producing parts for the 'D mk III' field telephone.
The workforce grew from 40 [1912] to 650 as well as works operating on a double shift pattern for the duration of the war. By 1918, 15,000 miles of electrical cable had been produced.
Post war slump resulted in the 'H. W. Smith & Co' works going into administration. Works bought by 'Edison Swan Electric Co' [later 'Associated Electrical Company' and Siemens] to produce power lines cabling.
During the Second World War, the works had [again!] one of the four machines in the country able to produce lead tubes. These tubes were used in the construction of 'PLUTO' 'Pipe-Line Underwater Transportation of Oil' / 'Pipe-Lines Under the Ocean' which were fuel lines between the Isle of Wight and France to support the invasion of Normandy, 'Operation Overlord'.
The cable works closed in 1966 and was bought by a paper & cardboard company 'Reed Paper Group' who manufactured packaging.
The factory closed in the mid-1990s.
Further reading;
rcsigs.ca/index.php/Telephone_Set_D_Mk_III
wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pluto
forest-of-dean.net/fodmembers/index.php?mode=thread&id=6614#p6626
Taking an exhilarating Cable Car ride to the top of Gunung Mat Chinchang, 708m above sea level is an unforgettable experience. The 2.2km journey is full of heart-stopping thrills and its splendours are enhanced by the views across to the coast of southern Thailand and the surrounding islands that a clear day affords.
A remarkable piece of engineering, the Langkawi Cable Car was awarded by The Malaysia Book of Records for ‘the Longest Free Span Single Rope Cable Car - total length of 919.5 meters’ and it is one of the steepest gradients in the world at 42 degrees.
Protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the majestic Mat Chinchang Mountain range has been earmarked as one of the sites within the Langkawi Geopark development and it is part of the Mat Chinchang Formation, the oldest rock formation in the country with an age of about 550 million years.
Stitch patterns from Elsebeth Lavold's Viking Patterns for Knitting:
Left: Vendel figure-eight knots (p. 87)
Right: Rounded overhand knots (p. 60)
kien me dira ya basta!
es una lokura...!!!
te corto tus alas...y caminemos..y vivamos lo k tenemos k vivir?
pisa la tierra...y no las nubes...
no juegues...solo trabaja....
no crees...solo adaptate a lo k hay?...
kien lo haga...llevar alfileres y cuerdas en su bolso
que mis ansias y fuerzas son sin limites...
y mi amor por lo nuevo...un cuento sin pintar...
es la vida de los que no solo miran...tambien sienten...
jahjejehefvvkicoteadrodsdskdskmuxksakss