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"The legs were going to be the most important part. If I can't walk around, I won't be able to do anything at all. So I tackled them first. It was a lot of trial and error, but I finally managed it. I'll need to find a better power system, though."
The Sky Wheel shot from Pier 14 at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I have a bit of an affinity for Ferris Wheels since the inventor, George Ferris lived in Pittsburgh until his death on November 22, 1896 at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of typhoid fever. I wonder if George Ferris could have ever envisioned that versions his invention, the centerpiece of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois would still be around entertaining people all these years later. The Sky Wheel at Myrtle Beach is a fun air conditioned ride that offers an excellent view of the Grand Strand.
"Journal entry:
The Turaga told the village last week that no Toa are coming. There is no way to get a message off the island. We are completely surrounded.
If the Toa cannot come and save us, who will defeat the enemy? Perhaps the answer lies within our village."
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I spotted the Tesla portrait from halfway across the Tennessee River. He's always been someone I admire so I had to get closer to see what it was about. These portraits are on the side of a building in Chattanooga that is home to a tech company.
My build for Round 3 of The Tourney at MOCpages. Halhi141, Infernum, and Brick all gave me helpful suggestions for this build. Credit for the lantern design goes to Brick, though I modified it slightly. This was an extremely fun build. I tilted the wood sections using ball joints, for the first time. The idea of the build was to create a wacky, and whimsical atmosphere. Hence the unusual colorscheme for the build.
There's a full interior, and the elevator actually works. Also Amfridus has devised a bucket system whereby he procures water without leaving his home.
Amfridus the Inventor lives in his tower outside of Guaire. Unlike some inventors, he is very friendly. Naysayers claim his chemical experiments have polluted the stream which runs by his home, but the plentiful aquatic life seems to show otherwise. Rego and Dedan pay Amfridus a visit hoping to procure some new inventions and potions that will give them an edge in The Tourney.
See all the details here: brickbuilt.org/2015/Inventor.php
Happy 30th anniversary to Voyager 1's long-distance Valentine: a picture of Earth from 4 billion miles away on Feb. 14, 1990, inspiring Carl Sagan's famous "Pale Blue Dot."
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
— Carl Sagan, 1994
This version has been greatly noise-reduced from the original.
On the frozen tundras of Krysto, the IP125 drone assists research teams maintaining the weather sensors across the icy wastes.
Here's my 3rd Droneuary build! The slight modernisation of the classic IP2002 figure was inspired by Ids de Jong!
I've been attempting more risqué photos lately, (at least more risqué for me.) As much as I'm drawn to the wholesome portrait, there's a side of me that wants to experiment with racier images. I like the whole pantyhose/lingerie/pin-up feel, but I've never felt I have the body for it.
I had the idea for this picture in my head for at least a week before I was able to try it, and I was really excited about it, more excited than I would be about a sporadic (yet impressive) portrait of myself or a friend. I was really pleased with how it came out, but I can't help but wonder if I've crossed any lines. I like to talk to people at work, (my work =everyday office environment,) about photography, but I'm wondering if they would find it offensive if I sent them the link to my stream, and this was the first picture they saw...I dunno, what one person finds offensive, another finds tastefully artistic.
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.
My build for Round 3 of The Tourney at MOCpages. Halhi141, Infernum, and Brick all gave me helpful suggestions for this build. Credit for the lantern design goes to Brick, though I modified it slightly. This was an extremely fun build. I tilted the wood sections using ball joints, for the first time. The idea of the build was to create a wacky, and whimsical atmosphere. Hence the unusual colorscheme for the build.
There's a full interior, and the elevator actually works. Also Amfridus has devised a bucket system whereby he procures water without leaving his home.
Amfridus the Inventor lives in his tower outside of Guaire. Unlike some inventors, he is very friendly. Naysayers claim his chemical experiments have polluted the stream which runs by his home, but the plentiful aquatic life seems to show otherwise. Rego and Dedan pay Amfridus a visit hoping to procure some new inventions and potions that will give them an edge in The Tourney.
See all the details here: brickbuilt.org/2015/Inventor.php
My build for Round 3 of The Tourney at MOCpages. Halhi141, Infernum, and Brick all gave me helpful suggestions for this build. Credit for the lantern design goes to Brick, though I modified it slightly. This was an extremely fun build. I tilted the wood sections using ball joints, for the first time. The idea of the build was to create a wacky, and whimsical atmosphere. Hence the unusual colorscheme for the build.
There's a full interior, and the elevator actually works. Also Amfridus has devised a bucket system whereby he procures water without leaving his home.
Amfridus the Inventor lives in his tower outside of Guaire. Unlike some inventors, he is very friendly. Naysayers claim his chemical experiments have polluted the stream which runs by his home, but the plentiful aquatic life seems to show otherwise. Rego and Dedan pay Amfridus a visit hoping to procure some new inventions and potions that will give them an edge in The Tourney.
See all the details here: brickbuilt.org/2015/Inventor.php
New Lanark was founded in 1786 by David Dale, who built cotton mills and housing for the mill workers. Dale built the mills there in a brief partnership with the English inventor and entrepreneur Richard Arkwright to take advantage of the water power provided by the only waterfalls on the River Clyde. Under the ownership of a partnership that included Dale's son-in-law, Robert Owen, a Welsh philanthropist and social reformer, New Lanark became a successful business and an epitome of utopian socialism as well as an early example of a planned settlement and so an important milestone in the historical development of urban planning.
My build for Round 3 of The Tourney at MOCpages. Halhi141, Infernum, and Brick all gave me helpful suggestions for this build. Credit for the lantern design goes to Brick, though I modified it slightly. This was an extremely fun build. I tilted the wood sections using ball joints, for the first time. The idea of the build was to create a wacky, and whimsical atmosphere. Hence the unusual colorscheme for the build.
There's a full interior, and the elevator actually works. Also Amfridus has devised a bucket system whereby he procures water without leaving his home.
Amfridus the Inventor lives in his tower outside of Guaire. Unlike some inventors, he is very friendly. Naysayers claim his chemical experiments have polluted the stream which runs by his home, but the plentiful aquatic life seems to show otherwise. Rego and Dedan pay Amfridus a visit hoping to procure some new inventions and potions that will give them an edge in The Tourney.
See all the details here: brickbuilt.org/2015/Inventor.php
This is a very early example of a lathe made by Richard Roberts of Manchester.
In 1816, after two years working with Henry Maudsley, Roberts moved to Manchester and established his own business. he had learned the importance of accuracy from Maudsley and took to his to new levels with his own machine tools.
Roberts was a highly-inventive engineer and inventor who led the way for production and precise engineering. He built a wide range of machine tools and also pioneered standard gauges. His designs contributed significantly to the process of mechanisation and his machine tools helped the growth of factories, the textile industry and the railways.
Lathes rotate a piece of metal or wood so that it can be shaped by a cutting tool. This lathe, powered by a foot-operated pedal, could work larger pieces of metal at greater speeds and with greater accuracy than ever before.
Lathes are the first recorded machine tools. Being able to make machine tools meant being able to make parts for other machines. Manchester led the world in creating machine tools by the mid-19th century.
This example is typical of Roberts' thoughtful approach to machine construction and is designed for turning shafts or similar components. Its remarkable solidity ensured accuracy under load.
Despite being considered a pioneer of modern mechanical mechanisms he lacked business sense and Roberts died in poverty.
Seen in the Making the Modern World Hall at the Science Museum, South Kensington.
This is a Fast Food Stall in Welwyn Garden Cty and I was attracted to the small window reflection which to my mad mind reminded me of the history of telvison. The Scottish inventor first manage to build a working TV in 1926 being the first in the world.. The end of the stall looked to me like an early TV with a small screen and a large case. Times have changes and TV's have changed our world, mostly for the better so it was fun to spot this in Welwyn today.
Gedenkstein im Avignonpark an Oskar Barnack. Barnack gilt als Erfinder der 35-mm-Kleinbildkamera von Leitz.
Er machte mit der Leica I von 1925 als erste Kamera in Serie die Stadt Wetzlar weltberühmt.
Memorial stone in Avignon Park to Oskar Barnack. Barnack is considered the inventor of the Leitz 35 mm camera.
He made the city of Wetzlar world-famous with the Leica I from 1925, the first camera in series production.
Estas fotos pertenecen a mi abuelo, Ángel René Cerbino (1931-2004). Inventor, visionario, carpintero, árbol.
Savia de mi sangre...
W. Friese Greene was a prolific English inventor and professional photographer. He was known as a pioneer in the field of motion pictures, having devised a series of cameras in 1888–1891 and shot moving pictures with them in London. (wiki)
Seen on a walk around the Chelsea area with Janet Brown following a visit to the V & A.
Technology image of the week:
ESA Director General Jan Woerner joined the Agency’s Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality at a special award ceremony for ESA’s inventors.
The ceremony took place at ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands on 31 May, recognising inventors for their contributions during the past two years, leading to 13 patents.
“It is important to recognise the outstanding results of our ESA staff and contractors,” commented the Director General. “Through their creative work they help to maintain Europe’s competitiveness in the space industry.
“Furthermore, as ambassadors of their ideas, ESA’s inventors support the transfer of these patented technologies to completely new sectors, thereby demonstrating the benefit of space technology for society as a whole.”
In total, ESA’s patent portfolio consists of around 300 patented inventions and about 150 applications in progress, across a diverse variety of technical sectors. This portfolio is managed by the Agency’s Technology Transfer Programme Office, working to find terrestrial uses for advanced space technology.
Among the inventions awarded this time was a compression algorithm specially designed by David Evans to serve data housekeeping aboard satellites: it operates so rapidly that it can compress individual data packets as they are generated.
Credit: ESA–G. Porter
Ilustraciones realizadas en colaboración entre Patricia Domínguez y Constanza Domínguez para el Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile, en el marco de la exposición de Cetáceos 2015.
Ilustración recreada de ilustraciones científicas.
Dusty: OK, Ginger, when I say, "Engage," you throw the switch and my consciousness will be transferred to the two Danbos.
Jefa: NOOOOOOOOOOO!
"The suit is complete. and not a moment too soon. The enemy has closed in. They are getting bolder, knowing there is no one to stop them.
But I can now.
I can't let them know it's me. The enemy would destroy my village for certain. They still might anyways. It's best if no one knows. especially not the Turaga. She tried to stop me already. She still believes the Toa will come.
The Toa will not.
But I will."
It took a bit of work for him to tolerate wearing a cardboard box... he never did wear the helmet. And as a robot inventor and repair person, she took great pleasure in tell him what to do (the remote control didn't work... LOL).
This is my dear Emilie who always does the most inventive things. When her remote broke she made herself a new one. It worked perfectly well and exercised her arms at the same time. I thought you deserved a laugh today and perhaps Kevin Dooley could use it in his lateral thinking classes? Please forgive the quality it was taken a couple of years ago and I was using my happy snapper.
Sorry but the song of the day is still Johnny Clegg with his blue sky
Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer
Medium: Photogravure
Dimensions: 21 cm x 15.2 cm
Date: Prior to 1895
Collection: Scientific Identity: Portraits from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology - As a supplement to the Dibner Library for the History of Science and Technology's collection of written works by scientists, engineers, natural philosophers, and inventors, the library also has a collection of thousands of portraits of these individuals. The portraits come in a variety of formats: drawings, woodcuts, engravings, paintings, and photographs, all collected by donor Bern Dibner. Presented here are a few photos from the collection, from the late 19th and early 20th century.
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Accession number: SIL14-P002-04