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I accumulated what I thought would be a number of dystopic images on my mobile, so I bunged them together and came up with this.
As I have said before, it is funny how things from the dim and distant past can inspire - this is one of those video inspirations that have remained deeply embedded in the unconscious - I just love the expressionist models - it knocks spots off cgi
One of the last active Class '042' 2-8-2s, 042 052-1, a more presentable 'Ochsenlok' than some to be seen at the time, standing in the rain at Rheine depot on 20th August 1977. At this time, it was still an officially active locomotive, not being decommissioned until 22nd September 1977, and had been given a fresh coat of red paint in preparation for the farewell to DB steam event in September. It survived beyond its DB service and for over two decades was 'plinthed' at Osnabrück-Schinkel, but has more recently been the subject of a protracted restoration project to return it to steam.
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Personally, I like this set very much. The minifigures are cool, the car is cool, but the one problem is they both can't fit in the car that well, so I'd give this set a 9/10. I recommend this set if you don't have it and if you like the movies
If you pass through Heybridge you won't fail to notice the huge warehouse built alongside the Chelmer and Blackwater navigation in 1866 for the Bentall agricultural works.
William Bentall came from a long line of yeoman farmers who were born and bred to the land. He designed a plough that would become the foundation of Heybridge’s main industry.
Bentall was farming in Goldhanger, just outside Heybridge, when he made his new plough for use on his own land. So successful was his design that he went on to re-equip his whole farm with them.
These ploughs were probably made by the local blacksmith but within a few years their reputation led to other farm owners asking Bentall to equip their farms too. In order to satisfy their demands, Bentall opened a small foundry and smithy on land opposite his farmhouse and demand grew so much that in around 1795 with the support of his wife, Bentall decided to concentrate his efforts on this manufacturing business. He enlarged his foundry facilities and launched the Goldhanger plough on the farming community.
The plough achieved a reputation for outstanding excellence and Bentall found the village of Goldhanger restricting his growth. Raw materials had to be brought by sea to the Blackwater estuary and then transported by lighter and road to the foundry.
Bentall found land available beside the recently opened Chelmer and Blackwater canal at Heybridge, just three miles away, and in 1805 the first buildings were erected on this new site. Raw materials could now be brought directly up the canal in lighters to his new works.
The innovation continued and in the year following the move to Heybridge William Bentall introduced the first steam powered threshing machine followed by a selection of other agricultural implements. Bentall never took out patents on his designs but relied on customer satisfaction to ensure the continued success of his products. The Bentall name stood for quality and his factory ran at maximum capacity.
In 1814 the country was engaged in the Nepoleonic war and due to the restriction on importing wheat from Poland, vast areas of land were being broken up for grain production. The demands for agricultural equipment was at a peak. Finding no problem selling the output of his factory, Bentall was becoming a wealthy man.
In 1814, William Bentall had a son Edward Hammond Bentall who succeeded his father to run the management of the business twenty two years later.
Edward Hammond Bentall had inherited his father’s aptitude for engineering and had been born to a period of intense engineering expansion leading to an insatiable demand for the products coming out of the Heybridge works. His mother had already seen to it that he was taught the workings of the foundry and was taught to make a ploughshare.
At the age of 22, Edward had an inquiring mind and a sense of adventure as well as having inherited his father’s engineering genius. These qualities led to business into rapid expansion after years of gradual growth.
In order to safeguard this expanding business in 1839 Edward began to trade under the name of E.H.Bentall & Co adding status to the name and in 1841, a patent was taken out for an “improved” Goldhanger plough to protect the product against imitations.
Another new design was patented in 1843 and that was the Broad Share Cultivator which was a tremendous success when it was put on the market. Sales of Bentall products had been mainly in the local counties but this new plough began to find markets throughout Britain and across the seas in the Colonies.
Expansion went side by side with demand and new buildings were erected at the works and more staff trained. The quality however, never changed and the Broadshare plough was awarded a gold medal at the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in 1851.
Edward Bentall continued to further improve this plough until it gained three first prizes at the Royal Agricultural Society’s show in Warwick in 1859. The word of its reputation spread and orders started coming in from all over the world.
The next innovation at the Bentall works was for the design and manufacture of a semi automatic machine to produce nuts and bolts. These were a large proportion of the manufacturing costs and Bentall built a new workshop to supply his own factory and an eager outside market. By now, Bentalls were producing a range of products which also included turnip cutters, root pulpers and oilcake breakers. Over the coming years the business prospered and, by 1870, the works were producing some twenty thousand assorted pulpers, cutters and cake breakers as well as the manufacture of a wide range of ploughs, threshers and reaping machines
In 1871, the products were modified to enable them to be marketed in Europe and Edward Bentall became a very wealthy man. Edmund Ernest Bentall started to take over the management of the business from his father, Edward, in 1889. Edward Hammond Bentall died in 1898. Edmund had taken over a very successful business now nearing it’s centenary and in the early 20th century, under his leadership, Bentall’s rose to the challenge of the new internal combustion engine.
A Bentall designed engine with many advantages over other designs became a very important addition to the work’s output. It was a slow running machine with small fuel consumption and was also one of the cheapest petrol engines on the market. Designed for ease in repair, the engines found themselves used for purposes as varied as driving chaff-cutters, crushers, pumps and even milking machines. The Bentall engine won medals at the great Brussels Exhibition and the International Exhibition in Turin.
Edmund Bentall was a keen motorist, the first man to own and drive a motor car in Maldon and set about designing a car that would incorporate a Bentall design petrol engine.
When he began to work on the design of the engine, petrol engines for cars were made with separate cylinders and he based his design on this principle. Unfortunately, by the time the car came into production, the monobloc system had come into fashion but it was too late for Bentall to change the design as all the necessary jigs and tools had been made. The new monobloc engines had a smaller bore than the Bentall engine which was put at a disadvantage when the new system of horse power tax was devised. The Bentall engine had a diameter and stroke very nearly equal and attracted a higher rate of tax and few buyers were to be found willing to face paying the heavy road fund tax.
The car was a costly failure to the company and although around one hundred were sold it was considered that redesigning the engine would be too costly and car manufacture at Heybridge was discontinued. The experience was not wasted, however, and Bentalls continued to improve the design of small petrol and paraffin engines and produced the first horizontal petrol engine in this country and sold many thousands. It was also the start of a large trade in the manufacture of valves and, from 1904, formed an important part of the output of the factory. Bentalls were pioneers in valve manufacture and went on the produce over a million a year.
E. E. Bentall was an innovator in other ways and equipped the factory with it’s own generator for electric power. The business also saw the increasing use of the railway because of reduced cost and the barges disappeared.
By 1914, the works was employing some six to seven hundred hands with the works covering an area of about fourteen acres. Despite the losses due to the failed car manufacturing venture, the business continued to prosper with the output of agricultural machinery expanding each year.
During the years of the Great War, a large proportion of the work’s output was switched to production of shell cases and many million were made during the four years of fighting. Women workers were introduced into the works as moulders and the shop was equipped with pneumatic hoists so that they would not have to lift heavy weights.
The fortunes of the company took a disasterous turn at the end of the war. An association of engineering firms was formed under the name of Agricultural & General Engineers Ltd and Bentall was persuaded to to merge his firm into it. Although Bentall & Co was the largest company in the association and the whole of the share capital was turned over to the new group the company had only one vote on the board.
The association did well during the boom years following the war but things were not looking too good for the future. The boom was followed by a slump and the association tried to counter the shrinking trade by launching further ambitious schemes including the formation of new companies in the Dominions. The association failed and the venture ended in total loss. Bentall, being the largest shareholder was hardest hit. All his money that might have used to put Bentalls back on it’s feet was lost.
Bentalls were in for a difficult time and had to start almost all over again. Sales had fallen to an unprecedented low and confidence in Bentalls had taken a severe blow. In 1933, E. E. Bentall purchased the ordinary shares of the company from the receivers of A.G.E.Ltd with the help of a little capital borrowed from friends and began the task of rebuilding the company. Charles Bentall became managing director with his father as chairman.
Some years of hard work were ahead but with the help of loyal staff who were prepared to work for reduced wages the business showed yearly improvements and the company’s debts were finally paid. Bentalls was prospering once more. The revived company played an important role in the second world war. Production set up for the manufacture of small machine parts for the aircraft manufactured by Handley-Page. The works went on to also produce complete assemblies such as tail fins and bomb floor for the new Halifax bombers and before the war ended some one thousand men and women were employed in the works. Also, because of the difficulty in importing food stuffs during the war years, output of agricultural machinery doubled to meet demand.
In 1946 E.H.Bentall & Co was recognised as a public company with Charles Bentall as Chairman. It continued to produce increasing volumes of agricultural machinery and valves for combustion engines. Although trade with the coffee plantations had suffered during the war the business was recaptured and rose six fold. Bentall technicians travelled to many countries advising on mechanised coffee processing. The works were modernised with more buildings added and, in 1949, a new foundry was built to meet demand for products. The year also saw the purchase of Tamkin Bros & Co of Chelmsford and the manufacture of their products switched to the Heybridge works. In 1955, the year the firm celebrated it’s 150th anniversary, Charles Edward Bentall died.
Thanks to it's about Maldon
Having spent many happy days in Heybridge where my grandparents lived as a child this building always stood out as a fabulous structure and well over a hundred years later it is still going strong!!! The Victorians could teach us a thing or two!!
The media consumption experience is poised to transform, and fast. Technologies that have been tinkered with for years, ranging from virtual and augmented reality to sensors and robotics, are finally on the tipping point of mass commercialization. As the physical and digital worlds converge, how will these technologies shape how people interact with digital media?
On November 18, 2014, NYC Media Lab and Razorfish hosted the second occasion of Future Interfaces, an evening "science fair" on the future of human-computer interaction and digital media. More than 300 guests came to go hands-on with 30 demos from startups and universities to see what's on the verge of commercialization, what’s still in the lab, and what advances will change the nature of media and communications in the future.
To learn more about the event and to see a full list of participating demos, visit www.nycmedialab.org/events/future-interfaces/
Peter Winzer demonstrates breaking the terabit optical barrier showing record high-speed technologies enabling 864 Gigabits per second on a single optical carrier and how integrated transponders based on CMOS technologies can be use to scale these rates through integrated Superchannel solution.
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey
April 8, 2015
Photo credit: Denise Panyik-Dale for Alcatel-Lucent
The media consumption experience is poised to transform, and fast. Technologies that have been tinkered with for years, ranging from virtual and augmented reality to sensors and robotics, are finally on the tipping point of mass commercialization. As the physical and digital worlds converge, how will these technologies shape how people interact with digital media?
On November 18, 2014, NYC Media Lab and Razorfish hosted the second occasion of Future Interfaces, an evening "science fair" on the future of human-computer interaction and digital media. More than 300 guests came to go hands-on with 30 demos from startups and universities to see what's on the verge of commercialization, what’s still in the lab, and what advances will change the nature of media and communications in the future.
To learn more about the event and to see a full list of participating demos, visit www.nycmedialab.org/events/future-interfaces/
[...] Forecasting future events is often like searching for a black cat in an unlit room, that may not even be there [...]
-- Quote by Steve Davidson
Nikon D200, Tokina 28-70 f/2.8, 28mm - f/16 - 1/250s - Flash Metz CT-3
Petrella Salto, Italy (November, 2014)
un #lunedi questo piuttosto futuristico per #doyoulikemyphoto con una creazione dal #design ultra #moderno . #pixabay
1st grade w/Mrs. Henshaw. 1966
Back Row-Mark Norman, ?, Allen Inman, David Ware, Jeff Kiper, Jerry Salfrank, David Helm, David Lyden, Ray Shaw, Jessee Keeses, ?
Front Row- Patty Hayhurst, Annette Walker, Michelle Trask, Judy Taladay, ?, Tammy Gilbert, Arlene Fender, Julie White, Donnette Walters(?) Patty Keep (in front of Michelle Trask) ?, Sharon Bird
Gotta love Mark Norman's smile! lol. Photo courtesy of Sharon Bird.
Lead vocalist Sam Herring of Future Islands performs at the 2022 80-35 Music Festival in Des Moines, Iowa.
Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA), led by Tyler the Creator, play a sold out show at the Showbox Market in Seattle, WA. October 4th 2011. (Joshua Lewis)
This is my grandson Kristopher doing what he loves, farming! My mom told him " Kristopher you don't want to grow up and be a farmer it's so hard and the hours are long." His reply was " maw maw, I'm already a farmer"! Such a cutie pie!
Promised this lady I'd get her picture from the Future of Flight Strato Deck on my Flickr. Really appreciate a Flight Attendant School using the Future of Flight facilities...
Cocorosie (Future Feminism)
Webster Hall
New York City
September 7th, 2014
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Future Now Health Policy Hub with CEO Philips Frans van Houten, Dutch Secretary General Ministry of Health Erik Gerritsen and Eric Hargan U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services at 2019 Global Entrepreneurship Summit at The Hague, June 4th 2019. (GES photo by Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Netherlands / Valerie Kuypers/ Public Domain)
Terminator series T-800 exoskeleton standing on the future battlefield firing his laser mini Laser rail-gun at the human resistance!!
+/- 1,60 mtr tall.
Pure LEGO build even the wires i used are from LEGO sets
Containing about 10.000 bricks (estimate could be more or less).
It took about 2 months to build and a extreme dent in my poor wallet.
I Didn't use bricklink back then so i bought some Castle themed LEGO and a Star Wars Ship (and lots of other sets) which resulted in not the exact replica of the model also i didn't want it to have the factory offline look but a action pose.
Eyes are lit up with led.
Head can turn 35 degrees to left or right (remote controlled).
Mini Laser rail-gun has a lit up power gauge and firing light when turned on (remote controlled).
Jaw can open and close (manual).
Head-Chip can be removed (manual).
Chest Power-Cells can be removed (manual).