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In Lofoten, if you don't like the look of a scene, just wait 10 minutes for the weather to change. #broway instagram.com/p/0fqZzNyZxo/
Mobile Lego arctic base for research in the most extreme conditions. The base contains a snow scooter hangar, drill tower, crane, sensor array and laboratory.
This is Max, the 800-lb Alaskan brown bear "cub" (born in 2019) at Bozeman's beautiful Montana Grizzly Encounter Rescue & Education Sanctuary. He's playful like a puppy and as cute as a bear could be. He, like even the older bears at Montana Grizzly Encounter, loves to play in the pond in his outside enclosure.
But the main point of this photo session was for me, a Nikon shooter from the 1970's film days through the 2021 DSLR days, to try out a Sony α9 (aka, a9, alpha 9, ICLE-9) mirrorless body with Sony's beautiful 200-600 mm E-mount lens. I subsequently purchased both, though at the moment I am still climbing a somewhat steep learning curve with the new body. (Almost) all the buttons and functions are there, but my "finger memory" and "menu memory" are most decidedly confused.
Still working on it, but until I get better at the new bells and whistles, please enjoy these many workable photos of Mr. Max.
6901 Mobile Lab (1980), another set I would have liked. A unique combination of the rover wheelset and landing strut pieces. But having a windscreen that doesn't enclose the interior seems like a considerable design flaw!
As requested by [https://www.flickr.com/photos/choccupcake] .
Shot by my wife in Cambodia in 2007 and edited by me.
If you have an interest in Auto-mobiles, why not take a look at my collect of images "here"
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The Stanley Motor Carriage Company was an American manufacturer of steam cars that operated from 1902 to 1924, going defunct after it failed to adapt to competition from rapidly improving Internal combustion engine vehicles. The cars made by the company were colloquially called Stanley Steamers although several different models were produced. F. O. Stanley and his wife Flora drove to the top of Mount Washington in New Hampshire to generate publicity for their firm. Twins Francis E. Stanley (1849–1918) and Freelan O. Stanley (1849–1940) founded the company, after selling their photographic dry plate business to Eastman Kodak. They made their first car in 1897. During 1898 and 1899, they produced and sold over 200 cars, more than any other U.S. maker. In 1899, Freelan and his wife Flora drove one of their cars to the top of Mount Washington in New Hampshire, the highest peak in the northeastern United States. The ascent took more than two hours and was notable as being the first time a car had climbed the 7.6 miles (12.2 km) long Mount Washington Carriage Road. The Stanleys later sold the rights to this early design to Locomobile. In 1902 they formed their own Stanley Motor Carriage Company.
Specifications and design The 1912 Stanley steam car, 6hp Stanley steam car engine, with Gasoline burner for a Stanley steam car boiler. Steam generator of a 1919 Stanley Steamer . Early Stanley cars had light wooden bodies mounted on wooden "perch poles" with full-elliptic springs. Steam was generated in a vertical fire-tube boiler, mounted beneath the seat, with a vaporizing gasoline (later, kerosene) burner underneath. The boiler was reinforced by several layers of piano wire wound around it, which gave it a strong but relatively light-weight shell. In early models, the vertical fire-tubes were made of copper, and were expanded into holes in the upper and lower crown sheets. In later models, the installation of a condenser caused oil-fouling in the expansion joints, and welded steel fire-tubes had to be used. The boilers were reasonably safe since they were fitted with safety valves. Even if these failed, any dangerous over pressure would rupture one of the joints long before the boiler shell itself could burst. The resulting leakage would relieve the boiler pressure and douse the burner with very little risk to the passenger. There is not a single documented incident of a Stanley boiler exploding. The engine had two double-acting cylinders, side-by-side and equipped with slide-valves, and it was a simple-expansion type. Drive was transmitted directly by the crankshaft to a rear-mounted differential using a chain. Owners often modified their Locomobiles by adding third-party accessories, including improved lubricators, condensers, and devices which eased the laborious starting procedure. To overcome patent difficulties with the design they had sold to Locomobile, the Stanley brothers developed a new model with twin-cylinder engines geared directly to the rear axle. Later models had aluminium coachwork that resembled the internal combustion cars of the time, but they retained steam-car features by having no transmission, clutch, or driveshaft. They also had a fully sprung tubular steel frame. When they later moved the steam boiler to the front of the vehicle, the owners dubbed it the "coffin nose." The compact engine ran at considerable steam pressure, with the 10-horsepower (7.5 kW) boiler described in 1912 as having the safety valve set at 650 pounds per square inch (4.5 MPa), with the burner set to automatically cut back when pressure reached 500 pounds per square inch (3.4 MPa). The twin-cylinder steam engines were at that time 10 horsepower, with 3+1⁄4-inch (83 mm) bore and 4+1⁄4-inch (108 mm) stroke, and 20 horsepower (15 kW) with 4-inch (102 mm) bore and 5-inch (127 mm) stroke, and made extensive use of ball bearings. In order to improve range, condensers were added from 1915. A Stanley Steamer set the world record for the fastest mile in an automobile (28.2 seconds) in 1906. This record (127 mph or 204 km/h) was not broken by any automobile until 1911, although Glen Curtiss beat the record in 1907 with a V-8-powered motorcycle at 136 mph (219 km/h). The record for steam-powered automobiles was not broken until 2009. Production rose to 519 cars in 1917. The Stanley Steamer was sometimes nicknamed "The Flying Teapot". At least one Stanley Steamer found its way to Castle Hill, New South Wales, Australia where it was driven in the late 1920s.
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