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This is a beautiful model by Francis Ow of which a CP is available here. I will take this photo again somewhere else because as you can see the box kind of blends in w/ the background. But this is a lovely simple model and my second model from a crease pattern!!
Silver twisted chain anklet with vintage style clasp and a silver bead with 15 minuscule cubic zirconium's. Looks gorgeous on.
In 1884, Henry Royce started an electrical and mechanical business. He made his first car, a two-cylinder Royce 10, in his Manchester factory in 1904, and was introduced to Charles Rolls at the Midland Hotel in Manchester on 4 May of that year. Rolls was proprietor of an early motor car dealership, C.S.Rolls & Co. in Fulham.
In spite of his preference for three or four cylinder cars, Rolls was impressed with the Royce 10, and in a subsequent agreement of 23 December 1904 agreed to take all the cars Royce could make.
During 1906 Henry Royce had been developing an improved six cylinder model with more power than the 30hp. Initially designated the 40/50hp, this was the company's first all-new model. In March 1908 Claude Johnson, Commercial Managing Director and sometimes described as the hyphen in Rolls-Royce, succeeded in persuading Royce and the other directors that Rolls-Royce should concentrate exclusively on the new model, and all the earlier models were duly discontinued. Later renamed the Silver Ghost, the new car was responsible for the company's early reputation with over 6,000 built. Its chassis was used as a basis for the first British armoured car used in both world wars.Powered with a 454 cubic inch L-head, six-cylinder, side valve engine, the Silver Ghost was a mechanical marvel with its aluminum alloy crankcase and a timing drive and ignition that was driven by gears, not chains. The timing gears were made of phosphor bronze and nickel steel, which were ground and polished by hand. The crankshaft itself was ground to an accuracy of .025 on its bearing surfaces and then hand polished to remove any minute scratches left by the grinder. The result was an automobile that ran in complete silence without a puff of smoke – a feat that could not be matched at the time and has never been duplicated since.In 1906, Rolls-Royce produced four chassis to be shown at the Olympia car show, two existing models, a four cylinder 20hp and a six cylinder 30hp, and two examples of a new car designated the 40/50 hp. The 40/50 hp was so new that the show cars were not fully finished and examples were not provided to the press for testing until March 1907.
The car at first had a new side-valve, six-cylinder, 7036 cc engine (7428 cc from 1910) with the cylinders cast in two units of three cylinders each as opposed to the triple two cylinder units on the earlier six. A three speed transmission was fitted at first with four speed units used from 1913. The seven-bearing crankshaft had full pressure lubrication and the centre main bearing was made specially large to remove vibration, essentially splitting the engine into two three cylinder units. Two spark plugs were fitted to each cylinder. The earliest cars had used a trembler coil to produce the spark with a magneto as an optional extra which soon became standard - the instruction was to start the engine on the trembler/battery and then switch to magneto. Continuous development allowed power output to be increased from 48 bhp (36 kW) at 1,250 rpm to 80 bhp (60 kW) at 2,250 rpm. Electric lighting became an option in 1914.
In the golden age of motoring coachbuilders frequently designed cars with bodies that resembles the streamline hulls of boats, “boattails”. However in 1955 two Rolls-Royce enthusiasts discovered the existence of a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost fitted with a boattail body and, not only was the body boat-shaped or boat-tailed, but was, in fact, a wooden boat. The car had been in Egypt and its past was shrouded in mystery. The restorers learned that the car bore the chassis number 54PB which Rolls-Royce records showed to be a 1914 D series model. It had a four-speed gearbox that Rolls-Royce introduced in 1913 and the engine number 45J from the Derby plant. But, for a while, that’s where its history seemed to end – a chassis leaving the Derby plant in 1914 to a buyer in France.
It was discovered during restoration that the body was made by Carrosserie Schebera-Schapiro, a coachbuilder in Berlin. That company was not formed until after World War 1 implying that the car had a different body between 1914 and the end of the war or that it remained a bare chassis until the wooden body was fitted to it.
From its construction in Germany the car ended up with the royal family in Egypt, once owned by the brother of King Faud and later sold by King Farouk. It was next bought by a British officer who ultimately sold it to the two gentlemen responsible for restoring it. Restoration included sanding and varnishing, renickling trim and replacing upholstery. The car had been driven few miles and mechanically only needed new piston rings on the cast-iron pistons.
Taken during the 2013 Nuit Blanche in Toronto!
Light_Scape - Exhibit 92
[R]ed[U]x Lab:
Interactive Installation
This tactile installation relies on user interaction to grow organically. Each user contributes to the evolution of the Light_Scape, by altering the appearance of the surface. The Light_Scape consists of individual, easy to handle cubes, each containing a tri-colour LED that cycle through a spectrum of colour. The modular shape of the light cubes allows the user to freely explore limitless configurations and patterns. The cubes and subsurface are covered with Velcro, giving them the strength to defy gravity. The Velcro's fuzzy texture diffuses light and produces a soft pulsing glow, which when accumulated, creates the illusion of a living organism. Light_Scape reflects the social nature of Nuit Blanche as it evolves throughout the night.
Additional support from Ryerson University.
Select materials generously sponsorred by SparkFun Electronics.
[R]ed[U]x Lab is a platform for emerging digital designers and fabricators from Ryerson University department of Architecture to showcase their work.
Near the Mandriola Beach, in the middle of the brushes where my dog comes from... ;-)
Original shot taken with a Ferrania Eura, 6x6 format on Fujichrome 400 RXP slide film, light post processing.
The City Wall of Nanjing was designed by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang (r. 1368-1398) after he founded the Ming Dynasty and established Nanjing as the capital 600 years ago. To consolidate his sovereignty and keep out invaders, he adopted the suggestions of advisor Zhu Sheng to build a higher city wall, to collect grains and to postpone the coronation. Then, he started to build the city wall. It took 21 years for the project, which involved 200,000 labourers to move 7 million cubic meters of earth.
The first Ming emperor was proclaimed in 1368 and a great deal of preparation was done prior to this to have an imperial city and all the imperial trappings ready in time. The name of the city was changed again to Yingtianfu (responding to heaven). A "new city" was built to the east of the old one to be used as a new palace or "forbidden" city. This city was laid out in much the same pattern as Beijing; indeed Nanjing’s was the pattern for Beijing’s Forbidden City.
In expanding the walls, it appears the Hongwu Emperor intended initially to simply add a bulge to the existing walls and encompass the New City to the east. The main north gate would have been the Drum Tower. However, a decision was made to bring Lion Hill to the northwest into the city defenses for strategic reasons, and this almost doubled the area the walls would encompass. In addition to the surviving walls of stone and brick, an outwall was built along the river and to the south as an additional defensive measure. Old maps show that there were close to twenty walls in this rammed earth wall. This outwall is long gone, but the names of the gates survive as local place names. Part of the wall on the south shore of Xuanwu Lake was built on the foundations of the old Stone City walls from the Six Dynasties period, and reused many of the bricks from that old wall.
Originally, thirteen gates were built through Nanjing’s walls, but this number had grown to eighteen by the end of the Qing dynasty. Of the thirteen original gates, only Zhonghua Gate in the south, originally known as Zhubao Gate, and Heping Gate in the north, originally called Shenci Gate, are still standing. Heping Gate is closed to the public as it is still used as an army barracks. Parts of other gates survive or have been partially reconstructed. The remains of a west gate, Hanzhongmen, originally called Shichengmen, stand in the middle of a plaza. These walls are part of the last of a series of three or four courtyards that made up the gate complex. During the Qing dynasty three more gates were added, including an entrance to Xuanwu Lake from the west built in 1910. Yijiang Gate on North Zhongshan Road was built in 1921, as was the major entrance to the city during Republican times when most visitors to the city arrived by boat at the docks just to the west. Additional gates were added in 1929, 1932 & 1954 to improve traffic and older gates were torn down for the same reason.
Different from ancient city walls in Beijing and Xi'an, its design and construction was unique and changed the old ways of equilibrium and symmetry. The construction concentrated on military defense because the city was at the foot of a mountain-- a natural barrier to control the commanding elevation with the river as its natural city moat. Because of this, the 60-square-kilometer Nanjing city became strategically located and difficult to reach.
Nanjing's city wall belonged to a military defensive system too. The difference was that it adopted a winding, free style, based on the city's complicated topography. Construction of the Beijing and the Xi'an city walls was in the ancient style of square or rectangular design. When it was built by the second son of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the dozen-kilometer long Xi'an city wall became the seat of local government. It could not match the scale of the capital Nanjing at that time.
Today the 600-year-old city wall of Nanjing still stands. Experts from Nanjing Cultural Relic Bureau say most of the foundations use granite, rectangle stones or limestone. The walls were packed layer by layer with broken bricks, gravel and yellow earth. All the brickwork joints were poured with mixed lime, water in which glutinous rice had been cooked and tong oil because the coagulated mixture was very strong. That is why the city wall has stood for a long time. On top of the outer wall were 13,616 crenellations, or battlements, for defenders of the city to observe the enemy or dodge arrows. Opposite it was the parapet wall used as a balustrade to keep the defenders and horses safe. Standing on the wall, you will see tall ancient trees under your feet. Aside the top wall there are stone sluices to drain rain and near the wall's foundation there are further outlets. This, perhaps, is another reason for its powerful foundation and defense projects. The ancient city wall was listed as a key cultural relic under state protection in 1988.
For more information, visit my website's pages on Nanjing city and Jiangsu province.
Franklin Mint - 1/24 Scale Die Cast Model of 1930 Cadillac Imperial Sedan By Fleetwood with V-16 power. This overhead valve, pushrod, 452 cubic inch motor was the centerpiece for the top of the line Cadillacs of the 1930s, these automobiles were the choice for many of the richest & most powerful people in the world. This particular model is famous AND infamous for being Al Capone's personal car. It shares many features with those Aston Martins that James Bond drove in the 1960s, except 007 is fictitious but Al Capone really did have bulletproof glass, machine gun slots, trap doors in the floor for dispensing tire flattening shrapnel and it even had the ability to spray the road surface behind it with oil in an effort to make any pursuing cars spin out and crash to aid Capone's escape.
65 cubic metre capacity fuel truck
Esterer
The almost EUR 600 thousand worth fuel truck has been bought by the Defence Materiel Agency under thMoD under a contract with KMT UAB.
Silver twisted chain anklet with vintage style clasp and a silver bead with 15 miniscule cubic zirconias. Looks gorgeous on.
These window washers weren't even on a scaffolding or anything. Just sort of hanging off the edge on little bosuns chairs.
I caught this glimpse of a Ventra Card machine without the cover on while it was being installed at Belmont one night. I had to take it from inside the fare control area, but it still gives an idea of what the Ventra TVM will look like.
Looking downstream from the new auxiliary spillway control structure toward the American River. The new control structure can send up to 312,000 cubic feet of water per second down this chute, enough water to fill 4 Olympic-sized swimming pools every second. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District continues with the final phase of construction on the Folsom Dam Auxiliary Spillway project January 11, 2017. The project in Folsom, Calif. is scheduled for completion in October 2017.
Silver twisted chain anklet with vintage style clasp and a silver bead with 15 minuscule cubic zirconium's. Looks gorgeous on.
This is a much photographed art installation just outside the security entrance at Toronto's Pearson International Airport.... while processing it occurred to me that the floating cubes were like abstract snow flakes.... (processed in Silver Efex Pro)
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Kubuswoningen, or cube houses, are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in The Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom in 1984. The houses in Rotterdam are located on Overblaak Street, and beside the Blaak Subway Station. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. There are 38 small cubes and two so called 'super-cubes', all attached to each other.
As residents are disturbed so often by curious passers-by, one owner decided to open a "show cube", which is furnished as a normal house, and is making a living out of offering tours to visitors.
The houses contain three floors:
- Ground floor entrance
- First floor with living room and open kitchen
- Second floor with two bedrooms and bathroom
- Top floor which is sometimes used as a small garden
The walls and windows are angled at 54.7 degrees. The total area of the apartment is around 100 square meters, but around a quarter of the space is unusable because of the walls that are under the angled ceilings.
Finished quilt - Pattern Cubic Rhythm from BHG Spring 2009. Final size 63" x 63". Blogged at colormequilty.blogspot.com/2011/12/sunny-sunday-pictures-...