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It's a wind-up toy, the yellow is the 'on/off' switch (if you turn it to off, it can't be wound up). No batteries, but ON is spelt incorrectly on the toy (N is backwards).
$2 from Daiso in Richmond, BC
Decent scale for Blythe though! Doesn't look too shabby :)
This is a belt system for a single machine. By shifting between the belts, the lathe would be reversed.
I know, I know… not a GUMBALL machine per se. That’s what we called them though, even when they were vending toys and not big colorful round gumballs. When I was a kid we weren’t “asking for a quarter for capsule toy machine, mom… please please please.” We asked for a quarter for the gumball machine.
When I was a wee little Nix I got my hand stuck in one of these machines and the fire department was called. I just had to let go of the pod and POOF I was magically freed. Haha.
The OMINMONY 2000, developed by Coca-Cola during World War II to speed along the production of war brides, could be brought out of retirement to relieve marriage commissioners of duties they cannot perform for religious reasons.
Paintings on wood for The Drawing Machine exhibition at green-wood gallery.
show runs until the 18th of May
Pima Air and Space Museum
(exhibit under construction)
SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM FIXED BASE GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION SIMULATOR
One of only three advanced space shuttle orbiter simulators used to train NASA astronauts.
The fixed-base Guidance and Navigation Simulator (GNS) represents one of only three simulators once used to train astronauts for the Space Shuttle Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Along with the motion-base Shuttle Mission Simulator (SMS) and the Fixed-Base Simulator (FBS), these complex machines were used to create a series of various mission tasks ranging from full mission rehearsals down to recreating specific exercises such as atmosphere entry or launching satellites.
Predating the SMS and FBS, the GNS was built in the late 1970s and operational by 1982. Initially it was primarily used only to test and verify guidance and navigation software that would later be installed in the SMS, FBS, and orbiters. As such it originally did not have visual computer-generated windscreen displays and much of the interior was unfinished, though it did contain the same complex array of cockpit instrumentation, controls, and computer displays operated by five distinct general-purpose computers (GPC) present in actual orbiters.
Following the Challenger accident investigation, the Rogers Commission suggested that NASA invest in additional crew training simulators to provide increased and expanded training and to handle the higher frequency of missions. However, the cost of providing an additional SMS or FBS proved too expensive, so NASA elected to upgrade the GNS into a full fixed-base crew simulator that was essentially identical to the FBS.
The upgraded GNS flight deck was enhanced to provide a more realistic appearance and a full visual computer-generated imagery system for the six forward facing windscreens. Computer-generated imagery (CGI) was a new science in the early 1980s and all the simulators used a first-generation CGI system, rudimentary by today's standards.
For 20 years the upgraded GNS was used interchangeably with the FBS and it is likely that every post-Challenger crew spent time in the GNS practicing launch, ascent, orbit, re-entry, and landing procedures.
With the end of the Space Shuttle Program, the GNS was retired in 2011. In late 2020 the GNS was used on the set of a science fiction movie due to be released in late 2021 [not sure why they’re being cryptic, its Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall]. The filmmakers modified the simulator's external appearance, making the GNS more closely resemble the outer surface of an actual orbiter, along with internal cabin modifications. Following movie shooting, the GNS flight deck was donated to the Pima Air & Space Museum in early 2021.
Machine Head
Mayhem Festival
@ San Manuel Amphitheater
San Bernardino, CA
July 9, 2011
All photos © Kaley Nelson - www.KaleyNelson.com
CAMP CASEY, South Korea – Soldiers from 210th Field Artillery Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, fire at targets with their crew-served automatic weapons at Machine Gun University, August 1, 2014, at Ingman Range, Camp Casey, South Korea. It was a week-long class that aims to prepare noncommissioned officers to become experts in various crew-served arms so that they can bring their special training and expertise back to each of their units. (U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Song, Gun-woo, 210th Field Artillery Brigade Public Affairs/Released)