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Union Pacific's "Salad Bowl Express" races past the refinery at Sinclair, Wyoming on September 12, 2014.
Château d'Avignon
Throughout the 18th century, the Avignon family gradually develops an estate of high yield farmland by creating irrigation channels from the Petite Rhône. In 1893, Louis Prat-Noilly (1845 – 1932), a wealthy wine merchant from Marseille, buys the property, converts the castle into a hunting lodge and has it extended and sumptuoustly decorated; he creates a park and planted with rare tree species.
Being a man with a keen interest in the innovations of his time, he includes all the latest techniques in the refurbishing of the castle. The Conseil Général des Bouches-du-Rhône invited us to visit this singular property which is a testomony to the expensive tastes and modernity of the industial upper middle class at the dawn of the 20th century.
At the time of our visit, several artists have displayed their perfromances and/or installation on site, throughout the parc and chateau:
Bertille Bak / Dominique Blais / Pierre-Laurent Cassière / Marie Chéné et Pascal Messaoudi / François Cys / Bertrand Gadenne / Gethan& Myles / Laurent Gongora / Mathias Isouard / Grégoire Lauvin & Peter Sinclair / Thierry Mouillé / Emmanuel Rivière
Summer Holidays 2015; roadtrip to and through the Provençe.
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One of the exhibits at the Caister Castle Car Collection, Norfolk.
Electric and hybrid cars may be the rage nowadays but they are nothing new.
When the Sinclair C5 came out in 1985 I was desperate to get my hands on one. They looked like so much fun on the adverts and news reports.
Unfortunately, my parents were never going to splash out the £400 asking price on a six-year old, not even for Christmas!
Now, 32 years later, I've decided a C5 is back on my 'To Get' list!
From thedailylumenbox.com Harman Phoenix color film shot at ISO 200 with Leica Ic and Voigtlander 12mm lens. Developed by The Darkroom in San Clemente.
More from thedailylumenbox.blog, Film Washi A ISO 12 leader film shot with 27mm Lumenbox lens on Canon IVSb2. Developed in Cinestill Df96.
This was the inspiration for my trip to Fife today - I was contacted by 2 Flickr members after i photographed this C5 last year, and I can now confirm that it is still there, although I still don't know who actually owns it.
Sir Clive Sinclair started production the Sinclair C5 in 1985 with much aplomb. Sales numbers were a disaster as the vehicle was slow and had a short driving range. There were also safety concerns using it on the road in between far larger cars. In about half a year the company run out of money and production stopped after only 14,500 C5's were built.
Found these cool, old signs on a road trip from Cookeville, TN to Jackson, TN without using the traditional I-40 route but sticking to Highway 100, etc. Given the time, I would much rather take the slower, more 'scenic' route anyday that simply fly down the interstate at breakneck speeds just to get where you're going and sit around thinking about what you could have seen along the way.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5200 and combined with Photomatix to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
Clive Sinclair formed Sinclair Radionics in 1961, having a good understanding of electronics and transistor manufacturing. Always the entrepreneur he bought a quantity of transistor test failures from Semiconductors Limited (Semics) of Swindon. As seems to be the norm in British semiconductor history, it was convoluted. Semics was actually Plessey who had licensed Micro Alloy Diffused Transistor technology from Philco in the US. Sinclair used the transistors in a very small pre-amplifier and sold both the amplifier and retested/re-badged transistors separately.
He must have done this again as ST140 and ST141 transistors were on the market, albeit probably in relatively small quantities again.
Above is an ST140 Sinclair transistor. There is also an original Philco MADT transistor. In the middle is a UK manufactured Texas Instruments transistor.
Texas Instruments opened a semiconductor plant in Bedford, UK to manufacture transistors, before moving onto standard logic during the 1960s. It eventually closed in 1994. Sinclair became a large customer for TI in the UK through its various Hi-Fi, micro TV and other products including for the supply of custom ICs. Unfortunately the supply of custom TI ICs was problematic and Sinclair went back to standard logic for the ZX80 home computer and Ferranti Uncommited Logic Arrays for the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum.
The ST140 is an npn, hfe49, vf=715mV, so silicon.
For my video; youtu.be/dEL2DoCm1wg
Southward Car Museum, Paraparaumu, New Zealand
The Sinclair C5 is a small one-person battery electric velomobile, technically an "electrically assisted pedal cycle". It was the culmination of Sir Clive Sinclair's long-running interest in electric vehicles. Although widely described as an "electric car", Sinclair characterised it as a "vehicle, not a car".