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in my quest to bring you unusual/unique things-- found this at ward's berry farm today. googled it when i got home and it is a device for taking the kernels off of a corn cob-- and i am assuming from the comments it works well on dried corn too.
This device was used for a few years for skid training. It raised or lowered the wheels of the ambulance and reduced traction at front, rear or side - or all at once! No longer restricted to a skid pan, the service could train on large spaces such as airfields.
Leyland DAF Customline - this was the time of transition between the V8 petrol and the puny Diesel!
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield works with the Space Linear Acceleration Mass Measurement Device (SLAMMD) in the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station. SLAMMD follows Isaac Newton's Second Law of Motion by having two springs generate a known force against a crew member mounted on an extension arm, the resulting acceleration being used to calculate the subject's mass. The device is accurate to 0.5 pounds over a range from 90 pounds to 240 pounds.
Image credit: NASA
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Device : Nikon D7200 with 18-140 mm lens.
Location : Curzon Hall, Dhaka University.
Captured Date : 07 june 2016
In preparation for the FAFM photo for "Smoke", I had to make this make-shift 'smoke producing device' to create the smoke for the photo. As always, I have the correct 'supervision' so as to prevent accidents. The string produced a longer trail of smoke so I could take multiple photos and then choose the best one for the FAFM group. While not 'perfect' (and even a two-wick candle didn't suffice with sufficient smoke after extinguishing) this string would smolder for over a minute. The can is a clean tuna can, and the wire is 14-gauge copper wire.
After the fireworks were over, huge bright lights were turned on so the enormous crowd could find their way out of the park. We were on the water side of the hill, so it was still fairly dark where we were. However, the light of electronic devices lit the faces of my young Korean friends. The Gas Works are illuminated in the background.
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This Upside-Down Church is located in Calgary, Alberta at 803 – 24 Ave. S.E.
Dedication plaque reads:
Title: Device To Root Out Evil, 1997
Artist: Dennis Oppenheim
Material: Galvanized Structural Steel, Anodized Perforated Aluminum, Red Venetian Glass
This exhibit has been facilitated by the Glenbow Museum with the generous support of the Benefic Foundation, Vancouver, B.C., owner of the work.
THE TORODE GROUP IS PROUD TO EXHIBIT
'THE DEVICE TO ROOT OUT EVIL'
The TORODE Group of Companies.
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at first i thought it was written in french, dog of a panel to make but back lighting came out surprisingly well. hardest part is making the windows grey, not yellow and green like everyone else does, and zero light bleed through between chambers. still needs some work
In 1958 a Canadian scientist named Andre Delambre successfully tested a device he had been working on for nearly 20 years, one based on theories imparted to him by Nikola Tesla, an inventor he first met on a train ride through the Rocky Mountain Range in 1938. The world would never be the same.
After a few missteps which included the strange disappearance of the family cat, his wife demanded he stop using animals in his testing. Having reached a confident plateau in his research, he used himself as his next subject and it was a success. He had developed a system for disintegrating and then reintegrating matter between seperate chambers. Just when he was about to step into the disintegration chamber for a second test, his Wife walked in and was furious. He explained to her that this wasn't the first time and that the machine worked which calmed and excited her greatly. The news spread like wildfire through the scientific community and Andre would never know how lucky he was that his wife interrupted his second trip.
Though he was able to bring his "Teleporter" to life he never managed to succeed in perfecting Tesla's "Wireless Electrical Transmission" and so the chambers would always need to be connected by large cabled systems and consumed massive amounts of power.
At least for a time.
In 1986 an young man of intellect far exceeding Delambre's would once again reshape the world anew. Seth Brundle, a brilliant and eccentric mind would bring Tesla's dream into the realm of reality. Discovering a way to wirelessly tap the geothermal energy from the earth's core to power any device and then make the cabled noose of Delambre's invention a thing of the past, he made teleportation the easiest, cheapest and most common mode of transportation.
His breakthrough made him the most famous person on earth and introduced him to his future wife Veronica Quaife. This would not be his last contribution to mankind's
betterment, but all others would be shared triumphs.
in 1999, Brundle and his then 10 year old son would develop systems for defying the laws of gravity. These Anti-Gravitational devices would once again revolutionize the concept of transportation and free man up to pursue other, less laborious pursuits.
The above image is an example of a common industrial teleportation unit which is simple enough that one operator can control it and any remote loading device. The anti-grav unit shown is a bulky model used primarily for HAZMAT duties due to it's safe and bulky design. The HVY-LFTR1 requires minimal maintenance and has been in service for nearly a decade without being improved apon.
A virtual "High Five" to the first person to guess the reference which inspired this. (Other than Tesla, he's just my go to guy)
Many of us who fly regularly have most probably seen a so-called winglet or wingtip device at the end of the wing of an airliner at least once. It is showing up more and more often on more and more types of aircraft, thus we felt it’s time to give an overview to our readers about these sometimes funny, sometimes cool and stylish looking aircraft parts.
History, Reason and Benefits
The initial theoretical concept goes back to times before even the Wright Brothers first took to the skies in 1905, but it was picked up and developed by Richard T. Whitcomb of NASA after the 1973 oil crisis – in order to reduce fuel consumption. The first tests were carried out in 1979/80 in cooperation with the U.S. Air Force. At almost the same time, but independent of any U.S. military organization, a private jet producer, LearJet exhibited a prototype in 1977: the LearJet 28 that featured the first winglets on a jet and a production aircraft. Flight tests made with and without winglets showed that the winglets increased range by about 6.5 percent and also improved directional stability for the LearJet- these two factors are the major reasons behind using this facility at any fixed wing aircraft ever since. A winglet is a (near) vertical extension of the wing tips. The upward angle of the winglet, its inward angle as well as its size and shape are critical for correct performance – this is why they can look quite different. Air rotating around the wing strikes the surface of the winglet that directs it in another direction – thus creating an extra force, basically converting otherwise wasted energy to thrust. This is a small contribution but can save a lot for an operator in an aircraft’s lifetime. Another potential benefit of winglets is that they reduce the strength of wingtip vortices, which trail behind the plane. When other aircraft pass through these vortices, the turbulent air can cause loss of control, possibly resulting in an accident.
Winglet Types
In general any wingtips that not end the wing simply horizontally are considered as some kind of a winglet. Even though in strictly technical terms Wingtip Fences are not real extensions of the wing, and Raked Wingtips do not have a vertical part, they are still widely considered as winglet variants.
WINGTIP FENCES are a special variant of winglets, that extend both upward and downward from the tip of the wing. Preferred by European plane-maker Airbus, it is featured on their full product range (except the A330/340 family and the future A350). The Airbus A300 was actually the first jet airliner to feature this kind of solution by default, but it was a very small version of the tool. Provided that most of the Airbus planes (including all A320 family jets) feature such wingtip fences, this may be the most seen and most produced winglet type. Even the new Airbus A380 double-decker features wingtip fences.
BLENDED WINGLETS (the real “Winglets”) are the most popular winglet type, leveraged by Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, Bombardier but also by Russian Tupolev and Iljushin. Blended winglets were first introduced on the McDonnel Douglas MD-11 aircraft in 1990 with launch customer Finnair (it also features a smaller winglet at the bottom side of the wing). In contrast to Airbus who applies the wingtip fences by default on most of their aircraft (and the winglets on the A330/340 family), blended winglets are considered by Boeing for example as an optional extra feature on their products, except for the Boeing 747-400. For some of the older Boeing jets (737 and 757) such blended winglets have been offered as an aftermarket retrofit, these are the newer, tall designs and do not connect to the tip of the wing with a sharp angle, but with a curve instead. These winglets are popular among airlines that fly these aircraft on medium/long haul routes as most of the real fuel savings materialize while cruising. Longer flights mean longer cruising, thus larger fuel savings. And they also server as marketing surface for airline logos or web addresses usually.
Just recently the Boeing 767-300ER has received 3.4 m high (!) winglets produced by Aviation Partners Inc. with American Airlines as the launch-customer with Air New Zealand and Hawaiian Airlines following with orders of 5 and 8 aircrafts respectively. 141 shipsets have been pre-sold already as the forecasted fuel savings range around 4%-6% for medium/long-range flights. Airbus earlier tested similar blended winglets designed by Winglet Technology for the A320 series, but determined that their benefits did not warrant further development and they stayed with the wingtip fences instead. Aviation Partners Boeing claims that winglets on 737s and 757s have saved a collective 1.2 billion gal. of fuel since they were introduced and 11.5 million tonnes of CO2 while reducing those types’ noise footprint by 6.5%. It has sold winglets to 140 airlines and 95% of all 737NGs are fitted with them. It is working on four winglet concepts for the 777 and hopes to finalize a design for that aircraft type by December, 2008.
G-TCCB - 40067F - Thomas Cook Airlines - Boeing 767-31K (28865)
Various clips taken on the last night at Enlighten, unfortunately compressed to MP4 to combine in a PlayMemories Home movie..
See a video here on my WDMyCloud home.mycloud.com/action/share/2f0dd993-0235-4bdc-b5ae-29a...
But the Browser wont bloody play a WMV codec file!
AND it is 850Mb to download!! Not the CODEC! Thee Video, which is unclear from the MyCloud message!
This was the largest file as a 115Mb 1280x720 MOV file, 46sec, then converted to a 13Mb MP4 file, which you see here, using Play Memories Home, by Sony..
now part of the combined 871Mb movie on the WD MyCloud drive.. @
1440x1050 24Mb/sec bit rate
Made using Window Live Movie Maker from the MOV file, which better preserves the resolution.
Here is a Youtube video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VlBe8kMM30&list=PLAPczLULhUg...
and www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WBj64CGiQk&list=PLAPczLULhUg...
FROM the MyCloud App Manual..
Drag-and-Drop - Web App
The drag-and-drop process for the My Cloud Home web app is a function of the personal
computer operating system and Internet browser. Follow these basic steps to perform this
function:
1. Witin the My Cloud Home web app, navigate to the location in the Files &
Folders section that is to be the file or folder destination for the drag-and-drop
process.
2. Navigate to the location on the personal computer where the source file or
folder is located for the drag-and-drop process.
a. For Microsoft Windows use File Explorer, for macOS use Finder.
3. Click on the file or folder to drag-and-drop, and hold down the mouse button.
4. Drag the selected file or folder to the destination selected within the My Cloud
Home web app and let go of the mouse button.
5. The selected file or folder should copy or move to the chosen destination.
Drag-and-Drop - Desktop App
The My Cloud Home desktop app uses the functionality within Windows File Explorer and
macOS Finder to search, move and view files. Therefore, the the drag-and-drop process is a
function of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of Windows and macOS. These are the basic
steps to drag-and-drop content to My Cloud Home:
Note: With the My Cloud Home desktop app, the drag-and-drop process can be reversed, and
content can be moved from the My Cloud Home device to a personal computer.
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Prior to World War II and the invention of radar, acoustic mirrors were built as early warning devices around the coasts of Great Britain, with the aim of detecting incoming enemy aircraft by the sound of their engines. The most famous of these devices still stand at Denge on the Dungeness peninsula and at Hythe in Kent. Other examples exist in other parts of Britain (including Sunderland, Redcar, Boulby, Kilnsea) and Selsey Bill, and Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq in Malta. The Maltese sound mirror is known locally as "the ear" (il-Widna) and appears to be the only sound mirror built outside Great Britain.
Acoustic mirrors at Denge
The Dungeness mirrors, known colloquially as the "listening ears", consist of three large concrete reflectors built in the 1920s–1930s. Their experimental nature can be discerned by the different shapes of each of the three reflectors: one is a long, curved wall about 5 m high by 70 m long, while the other two are dish-shaped constructions approximately 4–5 m in diameter. Microphones placed at the foci of the reflectors enabled a listener to detect the sound of aircraft far out over the English Channel. The reflectors are not parabolic, but are actually spherical mirrors.[1] Spherical mirrors may be used for direction finding by moving the sensor rather than the mirror; another unusual example is the Arecibo Observatory.
Acoustic mirrors had a limited effectiveness, and the increasing speed of aircraft in the 1930s meant that they would already be too close to deal with by the time they had been detected. The development of radar put an end to further experimentation with the technique. Nevertheless, there were long-lasting benefits. The acoustic mirror programme, led by Dr William Sansome Tucker, had given Britain the methodology to use interconnected stations to pin point the position of an enemy in the sky. The system they developed for linking the stations and plotting aircraft movements was given to the early radar team and contributed to their success in World War II; although the British radar was less sophisticated than the German system, the British system was used more successfully.
There are three acoustic mirrors in the complex, each consisting of a single concrete hemispherical reflector.
The 200 foot mirror is a near vertical, curved wall, 200 feet (60m) long. It is one of only two similar acoustic mirrors in the world, the other being in Magħtab, Malta.
The 20 foot mirror is similar to the 30 foot mirror, with a smaller, shallower dish 6 m (20 ft) across. The design is close to that of an acoustic mirror in Kilnsea, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Acoustic mirrors did work, and could effectively be used to detect slow moving enemy aircraft before they came into sight. They worked by concentrating sound waves towards a central point, where a microphone would have been located. However, their use was limited as aircraft became faster. Operators also found it difficult to distinguish between aircraft and seagoing vessels. In any case, they quickly became obsolete due to the invention of radar in 1932. The experiment was abandoned, and the mirrors left to decay. The gravel extraction works caused some undermining of at least one of the structures.
rheoscopic fluid constantly agitated by a magnetic stirring base covered in glitter felt, pieces of which were also used to decorate the flask containing the fluid. SOLD
Lynx Optare Tempo FD54JYF, snapped in Hunstanton bus station and framed appropriately by trees in the park opposite
"Daily Report: The Choice of Blocking Ads on Mobile Devices" by PUI-WING TAM via NYT t.co/kxvVcdydnG (via Twitter twitter.com/felipemassone/status/649577040920846336)
I have a couple of these Realistic Quatravox units from the 1970s. They convert two-channel stereo into four-channel for a surround sound effect. When these units were out quadraphonic sound was the latest fad, Radio Shack marketed these as a low cost alternative to get into four-channel sound. They require no external power, just a simple circuit with switches and resistors.
'Orrible little things the 12s. Their only redeeming feature being that you could prefix the fleet number with a buffer grease 3 and giggle childishly. (3)1216 arrives at some shack I didn't write down on some train I didn't board. Portugal May 1993ish.
For my coming Jabba's palace I've built some technical device. I've made an instruction to see how I used some SNOT-techniques.
Two-car Class 156 'Super Sprinter' DMU 156 480 rumbles through Kirkby-in-Furness station, a deserted request stop, whilst forming Northern Rail's 07.41 (SaO) Barrow-Sellafield service. @07.52
Some of these serious gentlemen hold metal tools and on the desk I can see metal pikes of different size and shape. In the open boxes I can make out various accessories and elecrical switches.
According to the clamp, the man on the left is holding, I assume that the devices are probably lightning arresters. But any other idea is welcome!
[Germany, unidentified photographer, 1910-1920?]
DSC07480 - Let's just say I am happy with my current camera and lens. Had a split second to make this image, in-between people passing by. Really enjoy the bright, soft on the left, and the dark, hard on the right.
Done from the hip, looking down on tilt screen. No time to bring up to eye level. I also think the slightly lower point of view work well.
NEW WEBSITE www.balloflight.com.au
Up at Marble Hill in Adelaide South Australia I was lucky enough to see some of the brightest Balls of Light ever.
It was a weird night at an amazing place. The 5d is gonna be hard to get used to. Kind of like getting into a Ferrari. Looks good, goes fast, but you have to be a VERY good driver to get the best out of it and when you are pushing it to the edge a wipe out is extra bad.
The High ISO performance is rediculous, but the glass is the thing. These images blown up are like crystal.
Anyway. I have some crazy plans for the next full moon that wil knock your socks off. Should be fun.
Congrats to Tacky and the crew at the floyd fest, the results look brilliant.
Go Hard kids!
(There is no photoshop manipulation of this image at all. It is taken in a single exposure, with no use of "mechanical devices". Only adjustments are to level, brightness sat etc)