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Three views of a peculiar connector socket... and each of those evokes something totally different to me, as the titles of the three variants can attest. And it was not even intentional at the time of the shooting. 😇
The socket consists of a matrix of 6x6 (minus the ones in the corners, so 32 in total) golden plated contacts, whose directions are alternating at 90° of each other for each row, so as to guarantee an optimal robustness of the connection, probably. The dimension of the square matrix is 4x4cm, so it complies ideally with the 3" rule of the Macro Mondays group.
For the context, this socket is part of an old electrical device. I salvaged it from an electronic waste collecting point, out of curiosity, as It didn't look like anything I had seen before. With this week's "Socket" topic, it became obvious that I could finally make good use of the "thing". Entering in a search engine some reference number I found on the object, I could trace its origin as being a "communication test device" being used by the army.
Having opened it, I was impressed by the thoughtful engineering that went into its conception. Now that the object played its role a last time, I happily returned it to the electronic junk collection point, albeit as a heap of dissembled parts. 😊
This is in the back garden of the house we have lived in for about 40 years, and this is first time I have noticed the manufacturer's name on the manhole cover (unless I've seen it before and forgotten).
One of the most vivid memories I have from my primary school years was visiting the Dover Engineering Works with my school. It's not surprising that seeing molten iron poured from a ladle into a mould from close quarters would make a lasting impression on a child. I can still see clearly in my mind the wooden pattern they had made of our school's badge being pressed into the compacted black sandy material in the mould. The pattern was then removed and the top half of the mould filled with more compacted material was fitted. Small holes to allow the escape of burning gas were made in the material. When the molten iron was poured into the mould, sure enough, jets of flame appeared from these holes. When the mould was eventually stripped, there was the grey/silver replica of the wooden pattern.
When the company was established in 1830 it was on the outskirts of Dover in the parish of Charlton, with a supply of water from the adjacent River Dour. Charlton has since been absorbed by Dover, and the engineering works is of course gone - with the site now occupied by a supermarket.
The daffodils and blossom do their best to brighten a dull Saturday morning. Engineering on the Stour Valley Line sees GBRf's 66755 trundle through Coseley with 6G56 from Basford Hall Yard to Dudley Port.
29.12.2020.
GBRf liveried Class 66 No's 66702 and 66704 work through Eaton Lane with 6G34, the 09.01 London King's Cross - Doncaster Belmont Yard engineers train.
The human race has done many wonderful things (and a few pretty stupid things as well). We can put a man on the moon, we can transplant vital human organs, we can beam live pictures all round the world, and we can also communicate instantaneously virtually anywhere in the world etc, etc, etc. All clever stuff.
This is a fuchsia. In some areas they grow wild like a weed and form multicoloured bushes and hedgerows. Its flowers can be of virtually any colour, but they are always so complex and delicate that they wave in the slightest breeze.
Nature did this engineering.
Perhaps we have a little way to go yet.
Texture is No. 5 from
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Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Not happy with this one, but will have to do for now as I wanted a general shot of the department building and I did find the staircase interesting!
Morning warm-up session for the season ending race. Big Red was raring to go and went-on to become the overall race winner.
2019 - IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship
Motul Petit Le Mans, Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.
Wismut SDAG Korbußen (Kreis Greiz), Bergbaugebiet Ronneburg, Schacht 418 14.07.1990.
Sowjetisch Deutsche Aktiengesellschaft 1954-91.
Uranbergbau DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik).
Alles abgerissen.
Schacht 403 (Drosen) bauartgleich, Schachtgerüst ohne Führungsgerüst erhalten.
germany, Thüringen
Explore - #18
The Riverside Drive Viaduct, built in 1900 by the US City of New York, was constructed to connect an important system of drives in Upper Manhattan by creating a high-level boulevard extension of Riverside Drive over the barrier of Manhattanville Valley to the former Boulevard Lafayette in Washington Heights.
F. Stuart Williamson was the chief engineer for the municipal project, which constituted a feat of engineering technology. Despite the viaduct's important utilitarian role as a highway, the structure was also a strong symbol of civic pride, inspired by America’s late 19th-century City Beautiful movement. The viaduct’s original roadway, wide pedestrian walks and overall design were sumptuously ornamented, creating a prime example of public works that married form and function. An issue of the Scientific American magazine in 1900 remarked that the Riverside Drive Viaduct's completion afforded New Yorkers “a continuous drive of ten miles along the picturesque banks of the Hudson and Harlem Rivers.”[1]
The elevated steel highway of the viaduct extends above Twelfth Avenue from 127th Street (now Tiemann Place) to 135th Street and is shouldered by masonry approaches. The viaduct proper was made of open hearth medium steel, comprising twenty-six spans, or bays, whose hypnotic repetition is much appreciated from underneath at street level. The south and north approaches are of rock-faced Mohawk Valley, N.Y., limestone with Maine granite trimmings, the face work being of coursed ashlar. The girders over Manhattan Explore - #40
Street (now 125th Street) were the largest ever built at the time. The broad plaza effect of the south approach was designed to impart deliberate grandeur to the natural terminus of much of Riverside Drive’s traffic as well as to give full advantage to the vista overlooking the Hudson River and New Jersey Palisades to the west.
The viaduct underwent a two-year long reconstruction in 1961 and another in 1987. (source: Wikipedia)
Carquinez Bridges, and yet another perspective of these structures. My go to spot at 4am.
Shot with the tack sharp Nikon 70-200 f/4. Thanks for looking.
Yeah i love my green lotus! What i tried to do in this picture was create the sort of picture you would see in a magazine, maybe with some text beside it endorsing lotus's engineering skills. I don't know, but i hope you enjoy!
Sound Studio equipment that largely means nothing to me - how people control that is really beyond me!
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Onsite Hydraulic Repair, 24/7 UK coverage. Each van is professionally kitted out with the appropriate tools for removal, manufacture and refitting of hydraulic hose assemblies accompanied by stock to ensure that 99% of jos are carried out there and then.
UP 2666 and another Tier 4 ET44AH lead northbound UP Engineering Special PJCPR2 through Villa Grove after a heck of a rainstorm. Luckily, its late departure out of Jefferson City, MO allowed me to get a shot of it after work.
Camera: Minolta X-300S
Lens: Vivitar 28mm F2
Filter: Hoya Yellow (K2)
Film: Ilford Pan 400 (Expired 06/2013, shot at 250ISO)
Processing and Scanning: Gulabi Photo Lab, Glasgow
Post Processing: Photoscape X
#3930 loaded Pacific National grain train behind EMD units 8170/8159/8232 catches the last of the afternoon sun between Jerrawa and Oolong, New South Wales on Sunday 2 April 2017
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Union Pacific Engineering Special pulled by SD70Ace 1111, Powered By the People rolls through Des Plaines IL. on the New Line at Howard St.
Concorde, at the Aviation Viewing Platform at Manchester Airport. The construction you can see at the right of the photo will eventually house this fantastic aircraft.
A pair of SD70AH-T4Cs leads the UP Engineering Special near Orsa, CO on the outskirts of Castle Rock.
The Special was running late which allowed the clouds to thicken up by the time the train arrived to the gaggle of railfans here at the new'ish N. Meadows Drive bridge. The other noteworthy aspect of this train was how slow it was going, especially since the preceding train passed through almost two hours before. At the time we didn't know it, but the lateness and the slowness would pay off because the sky got its act together and we were able to chase in full sunshine a few hours later...
Study in Monochrome of the bridges crossing the river Forth in Scotland.
The New Queensferry crossing, the original road bridge, and the world heritage rail bridge.
As seen at the Railway Museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands. These tools were used to build the first steam train in The Netherlands...
I rarely see shots of the new Engineering Building at BYU in snowy conditions. I captured this picture for future reference.
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The warm glow from a setting sun is reflected off the concrete spillway cells of the Murray Lock & Dam. The dam sits under the Big Dam Bridge on the Arkansas River in Little Rock. The dam & lock is part of a series of similar structures to facilitate commercial vessel navigation on the Arkansas River all the way up to Tulsa, OK.