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THE wartime secrets of Audley End House and Gardens were revealed this August Bank Holiday weekend, 28th August 2016.
During the Second World War the Jacobean mansion near Saffron Walden was a secret training station for Polish soldiers.
Polish agents stationed at Audley End undertook a series of arduous training courses in all aspects of guerrilla warfare before being parachuted into occupied Europe.
In 1943, Audley End, or Secret Training Station 43, was placed exclusively under Polish control, a situation unique to the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
The training was tough and the pass-rate low, but a total of 527 agents passed through Audley End between 1941 and 1945.
Pictures and text describing the Foregate and City Road junction in Chester - traffic lights that used "Electro-matic" traffic signal control. Page taken from the catalogue. The fine street lamp on the left is, I think after some prompting, a late 1930s style Revo 'Caerleon" lantern. There's also a great clock in the middle of the road - and the Grosvenor Park Hotel is advertising long gone "Birkenhead Ales".
Diefenbunker: Canada's Cold War Museum
MESSAGE CONTROL CENTRE
Coded messages would have flooded into the Bunker during a nuclear attack. Throughout CFS Corp's operational years during the Cold War, the Message Control Centre (MCC) had to sort them quickly and accurately.
Staff at the MCC logged, processed, duplicated, and distributed all incoming and messages. They also had to ensure outgoing messages were authenticated and formatted before transmission. Even small errors could be catastrophic in a crisis.
Five staff members per shift handled outside messages, as well as the internal message system within the Bunker.
Notice the pass-through slot in the wall-cryptographers in the next room were ready to decode incoming messages and encode those being sent out.
These cables went from the operators cabin to the machinery room directly below to control the throttles, brakes, and rotational direction of the steam engines connected to the cable drums. Everything about the McMyler is mechanical. No electrical signalling here!
More photos here in the McMyler set.
RUPTURE NO 1: blowtorching the bitten peach
Heather Phillipson
(23 March 2021 – 23 January 2022)
Tate Britain Commission in the Duveen Gallery
Heather Phillipson engulfs Tate Britain’s grand central galleries with colour, sound and motion
In her words, she is proposing the spaces as a sequence of ‘charged ecosystems, maladaptive seasons and unearthed lifeforms’.
She reimagines the galleries as alive, and happening in a parallel time-zone. Mutant creatures, built from technological remains, populate the space.
Described by Phillipson as a ‘pre-post-historic environment’, the work and its title evoke an abundance of sensations and associations that resist coherence. The artist says she is attempting to ‘cultivate strangeness, and its potential to generate ecstatic experience’.
Phillipson’s work often involves collisions of wildly different imagery, materials and media.
Through multiple, unexpected combinations, she conjures absurd and complex systems. Here, salvaged machines, colossal papier-mâché sculptures and hand-painted scenes are layered with digital video and sound. Mountains of salt, bisected aircraft fuel tanks, mobile gas canisters, rotating anchors and shapeshifting roof vents are doused with tinted light. Everything is remixed and redeployed.
Phillipson’s multimedia projects include video, sculpture, installation, music, poetry and digital media. She describes her works as ‘quantum thought experiments’. They often carry an underlying sense of threat – a suggestion that, in the artist’s words, ‘received ideas, images and the systems that underpin them may be on the verge of collapse’.
[Tate Britain]
Female Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) dining on tiny ants along the path near Teal Pond, Thomson Marsh, Kelowna, BC.
Controlled fires are set in Spring and Autumn to reduce the leaf litter and fire load in our forests. This helps to reduce fierce wildfires in summertime during the hot time of the year.
Authorized in the Flood Control Act of 1946, construction on Gathright Dam began in 1974 and completed in 1979. The dam sits about 20 miles upstream from Covington, Va., on the Jackson River in Alleghany County, Va. The intake tower allows the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District staff to not only control the amount of flow allowed to pass by the dam downstream, but also allows the staff to control the temperature of the water by taking in water from different depths of Lake Moomaw. (U.S. Army Photo)
Made in UK by Smiths company. I did purchase these one because of its unusual colors, it appears that it was used only in Fokker 28 airplane.
It has pneumatic suspension and motorized/remotely controlled driving and steering. It has a working steering wheel and remotely controlled original functions (doors, rear spoiler and hood - choice of a function is done manually with gearbox lever, like in the original).
It has additional two L motors for driving and M motor for steering, two IR receivers (one of them V2). Original battery box has been replaced with 8878 rechargeable battery box which is smaller so I could hide it behind panels at the rear for more realistic appearance.
Original suspension (6.5 L hard springs) has been changed with 6.5 L soft spring + small pneumatic cylinder, for all wheels. It has large pneumatic pump at the back and pneumatic switch at the cabin for controlling riding height.
VIDEO: youtu.be/yEoht6n7Ndo
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