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Image from "Flight Thru Instruments," a 1945 US Navy pilot-training manual designed by the Graphic Engineering Staff at General Motors, under the direction of Harley Earl.
More explanation on the blog:
"Flight thru Instruments" and the Fine Art of Instructional Illustration
Included are Parker items that my parents used daily when I was growing up. I recollect my folks using them as early as when we were living in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles in the late 1950s.
The two with the dark blue bodies were a pen and pencil set. The second from the left is a Parker ‘51’ fountain pen which was very popular in its day. Whenever my mom wrote letters to her relatives and friends, this was her go-to pen. I was fascinated by the richly dark characters that were effortlessly produced by its nib that was barely visible.
The reddish one is a Parker ‘61’ fountain pen. I remember watching my dad pay so many bills by writing out checks with this beauty. He also used it to sign our school grade report cards!
The one on the right is my Parker ‘45’ fountain pen which my parents bought me as a gift when I was in high school or junior high. Though modestly priced compared to the ‘51’ and ‘61’, it performed quite flawlessly and served me well during secondary school.
To this day I still gain great satisfaction using fountain pens. My favorite is a Pilot brand (made in Japan) ‘vanishing point’ style in which the nib retracts into the pen barrel by click action. I’ve used it often enough in the several years I’ve owned it that I have worn off part of its black finish revealing the brass shell beneath.
It's Instrument-a-Day time again! Every February I make a new homemade instrument each day.
Kicking off Instrument-a-day 2012 is the Westminster Doorbell, made of a couple of steel rods suspended over a guitar pickup. I'm learning how to get more overtones out of it, but I haven't really figured it out yet.
tealight
scissors
strong glue
tweezers
any sharp object
thin-nose pliers
any object like a ruler
any cylindrical object
Title: Musical Instruments: historic, rare and unique.
Author: A. J. Hipkins.
Published: London, 1921.
Image: A selection of sitars.
Source: Lewisham Reference Library.
Brief description: An illustrated volume of historic, rare and unique instruments with lengthy descriptions of each and notes on their usage.
Bob Rosenberry and Aleksandra Bogunovic tape down the electrical wires on the TIRS instrument before covering it with the MLI blanket
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The staff instruments in the station's safeworking room, or 'staff hut'. The small mechanical signal box is a separate building on the platform nearby, and is operated by the station employee, or by train crews when the station is unattended.
For anyone who doesn't know about it, I will try to explain electric staff working in a few paragraphs! It is a token system for single lines. On single lines there are "crossing" locations with two or more tracks, where opposing trains can 'cross' or pass each other. Between crossing locations there is only one track ("single line"), and the purpose of token working is to ensure that there is only one train at a time on that section of track, in order to avoid the possibility of collision.
In token working the driver of a train must be in possession of the correct token for the single line section. The token is inscribed with the names of the locations at each end of the section to identify it. The token gives the authority for a train to occupy that single line section, and it must be carried on the train while it is in that section.
In electric staff working, the token is rod shaped and called a staff, and there are a number of staffs for each section. The staffs are normally held within a pair of staff "instruments", one at each end of the section. The instruments are electrically connected, and when a staff is withdrawn from one of the instruments, they both become locked and no more staffs can be withdrawn. When that staff is returned to either instrument, both instruments are unlocked and another staff can then be withdrawn. This ensures that only one staff can be out of the pair of instruments at any one time, and so only one train can carry the staff and be authorised to enter the section at any time.
Phew!
This is the cropped version. Is it more interesting? I think I like it better because it makes you focus more on the pen than the writing on the side of the page.
February 2, 2008
At least that's what it feels like... I have an academic book review due tonight. I started out reading my book at least fifteen minutes a day. Then I took my seventh graders on a weeklong trip, and that happen disappeared. Let's just say I haven't yet finished the book.
All I've done today is read the book and make notes. I haven't even changed out of my jammies! I'm really cutting it close on this one. I've been trying to make notes of intelligent thoughts so that when I finally finish the book I can write the review without too much trouble. I hope it works...
Looking for a subject for 115 of 120 pictures in 2020 - Ways to weigh or measure, I was going to take a picture of a set of scales I have then decided to focus on 'measure' and came up with this picture.
Whilst clearing out the garage I came across this rather shiny guage holder which I recall my father had fitted to some of his cars. There was never enough gauges in the car for him! The hunt was then on for a couple of gauges to put in it and as luck would have it I found one of his old oil pressure gauges, the one on the left and a volt meter, one which I used to have in a previous car. Luckily they were both 'Smiths' and fitted the surround nicely.
Rather than languishing in a forgotten corner of the garage they now adorn a shelf in my 'man cave' bringing back happy memories of times gone by.
Left gauge measures engine oil pressure, right gauge car electrical voltage.
A man demonstrates traditional Maori musical instruments, including a flute and a conch shell, in Mitai Maori Village in Fairy Springs, Rotorua, New Zealand. (Oct. 21, 2022)
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Hammerton Station signal box's instruments are contained within the station buildings with the "signal hut" containing the lever frame visible outside through the window.
Seen in the photo, working from left to right are, Annunciator ? Signal lamp indicators, Block instrument to Cattal, Manual timed release (Welwyn control), key token instrument to Poppleton, phone concentrator, TRB, Trust / computer, fax machine
Following a disappointing defeat at the Stadium of Light I consoled myself on the way home by knocking another box off the list.
Hammerton, not a major railway centre, is located on the Harrogate loop between Knaresborough & York. The 14 miles between Knaresborough and Poppleton on the outskirts of York is single line with a 1.5 mile section of double track in the middle. Hammerton is the box at the York end of the double track section and works absolute block to Cattal just 1.5 miles away and key token to Poppleton.
The signal box here however is not a signal box at all, it is a “signal hut” !
The instruments and signallers accommodation are located in the station building with the lever frame accommodated outside the office in a beautifully crafted lockable timber housing.
In days of yore the signal box also served as the booking office and the signalmans duties would have included the sale of tickets. Erected by the North Eastern Railway in 1914. As well as controlling the transition from single to double line the signaller also has a gated manualy operated level crossing to attend to.
Image from "Flight Thru Instruments," a 1945 US Navy pilot-training manual designed by the Graphic Engineering Staff at General Motors, under the direction of Harley Earl.
More explanation on the blog:
"Flight thru Instruments" and the Fine Art of Instructional Illustration
Pauline Black and the Selecter were playing in Enfield Town park yesterday. Got some great shots of them.
This month the theme of The Instruments is Dolls, Automaton's, Robots and Steam punk so inspired on steam punk specially on one of my favorite TV shows this 2 items where created.
1.- TASHI H.G.Wells is a mesh skirt that comes with a HUD and 3 color options
2.- TASHI Claudia a nail polish set only for the Maitreya body
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The Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) structure on the centrifuge for testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. It has just started spinning.
Watch a movie of the centrifuge spinning on our YouTube channel.
We also have a video of actor Seth Green's visit, which was coincident with the ISIM structure testing.
Credit: Maggie Masetti
Belltown shop. It never seemed to be open on the days I walked by. I never did get inside.
Now closed and building demolished.
More gleanings from past years
This collection is on display in the museum at The Sanctuary of Cura, near Algaida, Mallorca 21/04/15
Image from "Flight Thru Instruments," a 1945 US Navy pilot-training manual designed by the Graphic Engineering Staff at General Motors, under the direction of Harley Earl.
More explanation on the blog:
"Flight thru Instruments" and the Fine Art of Instructional Illustration