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Zorro arrivrera à l'heure pour prendre un verre avec les artistes de "Little Big Web" à la galerie Ephémère, Thuin, Belgium, le 16 novembre 2013 à 18 heures. Have a look here :
Direct Rail Services Class 37 locos 37423 'Spirit of the Lakes', and large logo blue coloured 37407 'Blackpool Tower', top and tail the 1Q47 Derby RTC to Carlisle test train at Acton Bridge
Unprepared for the red shouldered hawk to come directly at me, I did all I could do. Held the camera up and pressed the shutter. The hawk sailed about 3 feet over my head. Though backlit and soft, you get the idea. Was it after my camera??
Direct Rail Services Class 37's 37612 and 37218 stand at Newcastle awaiting time. Working 3S77 - Carlisle Kingmoor to Carlisle Kingmoor RHTT
With Class 37 37425 on the front Direct Rail Services Class 66 66421 is pictured heading west through Platform 2 at the MetroCentre on a York Parcels Sidings to Carlisle Kingmoor light engine movement on February 28th 2022.
Direct Rail Services 37067 / 37703 (on loan to the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway), Caledonian Sleeper Class 86/4, 86401 "Mons Meg" (operated by GBRf and leased from the AC Locomotive Group), and Scottish Thirty-Seven Group's 37025 "Inverness TMD", haul an SRPS Railtours charter from Bo'ness up to Manuel Junction for the start of their Routes and Branches tour round Central Scotland
Direct Rail Services Class 37/4 37424 'Avro Vulcan XH558' diesel-electric locomotive at Nethertown on the Cumbrian coast railway line with Northern's 2C40 the 08:42 Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness passenger service.
CP Rail -D&H train KL-1 with CP M636 4714 hustles past an outlawed train 556 with 2 bigs in Fort Edward, NY on a foggy August 1991 morning.
Episodes from the History of Electricity.
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Benjamin Franklin (1750 - Lightning is electrical)
Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician (was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States), postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions.
In 1750 he published a proposal for an experiment to prove that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a storm that appeared capable of becoming a lightning storm. On May 10, 1752, Thomas-François Dalibard of France conducted Franklin's experiment using a 40-foot-tall (12 m) iron rod instead of a kite, and he extracted electrical sparks from a cloud. On June 15 Franklin may possibly have conducted his well known kite experiment in Philadelphia, successfully extracting sparks from a cloud.
Franklin's electrical experiments led to his invention of the lightning rod.
Luigi Aloisio Galvani (1781 - "Animal Electricity")
Galvani was an Italian physician, physicist and philosopher who lived in Bologna.
With his experiment he discovered that the body of animals is powered by electrical impulses. Galvani named this newly discovered force “animal electricity,” and thus laid foundations for the modern fields of electrophysiology and neuroscience.
Galvani’s contemporaries - including Benjamin Franklin, whose work helped prove the existence of atmospheric electricity - had made great strides in understanding the nature of electricity and how to produce it. Inspired by Galvani’s discoveries, fellow Italian scientist Alessandro Volta would go on to invent, in 1800, the first electrical battery - the voltaic pile - which consisted of brine-soaked pieces of cardboard or cloth sandwiched between disks of different metals.
Thomas Alva Edison (1882 - First Power Station)
Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.
In 1878, Edison formed the Edison Electric Light Company (today as General Electric) in New York City with several financiers, including J. P. Morgan and the members of the Vanderbilt family. Edison made the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb on December 31, 1879, in Menlo Park. It was during this time that he said: "We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."
After devising a commercially viable electric light bulb on October 21, 1879, Edison patented a system for electricity distribution in 1880, which was essential to capitalize on the invention of the electric lamp.
The company established the first investor-owned electric utility in 1882 on Pearl Street Station, New York City. It was on September 4, 1882, that Edison switched on his Pearl Street generating station's electrical power distribution system, which provided 110 volts direct current (DC) to 59 customers in lower Manhattan. Earlier in the year, in January 1882, he had switched on the first steam-generating power station at Holborn Viaduct in London. The DC supply system provided electricity supplies to street lamps and several private dwellings within a short distance of the station.
Edison was a prolific inventor, holding 1,093 US patents in his name. More significant than the number of Edison's patents was the widespread impact of his inventions: electric light and power utilities, sound recording, and motion pictures all established major new industries world-wide. Edison's inventions contributed to mass communication and, in particular, telecommunications. These included a stock ticker, a mechanical vote recorder, a battery for an electric car, electrical power, recorded music and motion pictures.
Nicola Tesla (1891 - Tesla Coil)
Tesla was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Tesla moved to New York in 1884 and introduced himself to Thomas Edison. Although Tesla and Edison shared a mutual respect for one another, at least at first, Tesla challenged Edison’s claim that current could only flow in one direction (DC, direct current). Tesla claimed that energy was cyclic and could change direction (AC, alternating current), which would increase voltage levels across greater distances than Edison had pioneered. In 1888, Tesla went to work for Westinghouse in order to develop the alternating current system. Westinghouse and Tesla in their design for the first hydroelectric power plant in Niagara Falls.
Around 1891 Tesla invented the Tesla coil, which is an electrical resonant transformer circuit. It is used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity. Tesla experimented with a number of different configurations consisting of two, or sometimes three, coupled resonant electric circuits. In 1899 Tesla moved to Colorado Springs, where he would have room for his high-voltage, high-frequency experiments: Tesla was sitting in his laboratory with his "Magnifying transmitter" generating millions of volts.
Tesla invented the first alternating current (AC) motor and developed AC generation and transmission technology, invented electric oscillators, meters, improved lights. He also experimented with X-rays and gave short-range demonstrations of radio communication.
Direct Rail Services (DRS) 57303 'Pride Of Carlisle' and 57304 'Pride Of Cheshire' rumble through Stafford working the ECS movement of 5Z39 1555 Kidderminster S.V.R. to Crewe H.S.
Gibson Direct Renfrew Glasgow Mercedes-Benz Tourismo Reg BD18 TLK Is seen In East Belfast Northen Ireland on A Private Hire
On one of the first ever Class 68 hauled 'Northern Belle's', Direct Rail Services 68003 'Astute' speeds through Loughborough on 1Z63 Leicester to Nottingham Northern Belle. 57305 was attached to the other end. 21/11/15.
Direct Rail Services 37069 & 37059 top & tail 1Z61, the High Wycombe to Redhill leg of the 'Buffer Puffer' tour past Shepherds Meadows foot crossing near Blackwater.
Triplette de CC-65000 en tête d'une rame Transfesa en direction de Bordeaux le 5/07/1987 à Saintes (17)
‘Direct Rail Services’ Class 37/4 No.37402 “Stephen Middlemore” is seen making itself heard lifting away from its booked station call at Millom heading Northbound with 2C49 (DIAG 2), 1148 Barrow-in-Furness to Carlisle with fellow classmate 37401 “Mary Queen of Scots” at the rear. With Millom signal box and a semaphore signal here it was defiantly worth the shot even if the sun may have been slightly too high at midday, but this was one of the few places you could actually do this working with the sun adequately on the nose. Who would have thought that in 2015 we would see 50 year old locomotives on daily passenger TOC workings, a sight that can’t be missed! After leaving home in Leicester at 0300am and arriving in Cumbria at around 0700 it was a great relief to manage every single shot all day in sun. We we’re truly blessed by the sun Gods today and will certainly be a trip I will never forget.
Preserved and main line registered Class 37/4 37403 'Isle of Mull' diesel-electric locomotive passes non-stop through Nethertown request stop station on the Cumbrian coast railway line with Northern's 2C40 the 08:42 Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness passenger service.
Direct Rail Services Class 37s 37218 and 37610 "T.S. (TED) Cassady 14.5.61 - 6.4.08" are seen departing Shirebrook station with one intermodal wagon.
4Z50 09:35 Shirebrook Davis & Son - Derby Litchurch Lane.
Dublin Bus E400/Volvo B9TL EV3 is seen with this simple ad for Canadian Airline Westjet and the commencement of their direct flights from Dublin to Calgary starting Sunday 2nd June using a B787 Dreamliner
Direct Rail Services' 37029 and West Coast Railway Company's 57601 top and tail the Royal Scotsman as 1H85 from Edinburgh Waverley to Spean Bridge as they arrive into Bridge of Orchy
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"Once more unto the breach," the Henry V statue directs the traffic at Rosebird island in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Direct Rail Services Class 37/4 37402 'Stephen Middlemore 23.12.1954 - 8.6.2013' diesel-electric locomotive hugs the coast as it passes Redness Point at Whitehaven on the Cumbrian coast railway line with Northern's 2C34 the 14:35 Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness passenger service. Class mate 37423 'Spirit of the Lakes' is on the rear of this train.
Direct Rail Services Brush/General Motors Class 57s 57010 and 57002 diesel-electric locomotives power through Harrington towards Salterbeck in Workington with 6C46 the 19:40 BNFL Sellafield to Carlisle Kingmoor Depot nuclear flask train.
Direct Rail Services Class 37/4 37409 'Lord Hinton' diesel-electric locomotive at Nethertown on the Cumbrian coast railway line with Northern's 2C34 the 14:35 Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furnesss passenger service. Class mate 37423 'Spirit of the Lakes' is seen here on the rear of this short formation train.