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The engine room
In 1843 this was was the most powerful maritime engine in the world. It was built by Thomas Guppy.
The sheer power and size of this engine fascinated the passengers who had conducted tours of the engine room.
By the 1840s this engine was obsolete as engine design developed so fast.
26 November 2022
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Maserati GranCabrio MC Stradale
World First !
Spotted @ Paris
Mondial de l'Automobile 2012
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I claim another world first for images made with the Therm-App thermal imager: a 3-D thermographic image.
In order to see it properly you'll need a red filter over your left eye and a cyan filter over your right eye. Cheap cardboard anaglyph colour 'glasses' work fine, as do some Quality Street (and other) sweetie wrappers.
This will not win any prizes for artistry but as an engineering sample image I think it's something special. Anaglyph images are relatively rare; I do not recall ever seeing a thermal one, and certainly none made with the Therm-App imager. If anyone knows differently, please let me know.
Made by taking two images with the Therm-App thermal imager using its 6.8mm lens focused on two warm cups of water standing on a metal plate, with images processed by the Instant Anaglyph Creator at instantsolve.net/anaglyph/ - to whom I am very grateful.
Comments are, as usual, very warmly welcomed.
For more thermal images covering a diverse range of subjects please visit (and join!) the Therm-App (and others) thermal imaging group at www.flickr.com/groups/therm-app-users/
Well yes. After a long time exploring and searching information, I can say this is the first Z4 E89 with air suspension in the world! There are plenty of E85 on air, but E89 generation, this is definitely the first. Still need lots of adjustment now, will solve the issues soon and make it even lower!
This was the last leg of a fifty day crossing accross the atlantic which set a new world record and a world record first for Team Essence.
H-class 372, newly painted and polished waiting at the Morphettville tramstop the arrival of the Olympic Flame relay team on day 38, 15 July 2000.
Was odd to see door on both sides of the tram to be open.
© Henk Graalman
It's not often that I claim a world first but this is it - as far as I know this is the first published image of the Moon taken with a Therm-App thermal camera.
I'm sure other people have taken thermal images of the moon, so this is nothing new. Also, I recognise that an image just a few pixels wide and with few discernible features hardly adds much to science. But this is a mark in the sand, and a place from which to improve. I have some ideas about how to get much better thermal images of the Moon with the Therm-App, but they will have to wait until I gather the necessary paraphernalia. I will publish anyresulting images on Flickr first.
As I moved the camera back and forth I was surprised to discover that Thermography mode said the surface of the Moon was 42°C. Obviously this is a wildly inaccurate measurement but it contrasted sharply with the cold sky, -12.4°C in this image. I regard that measurement as somewhat suspect, too - even though it was a chilly early autumn evening.
Comments are warmly invited. If you like this image, please join the Therm-App (and others) thermal imaging group at www.flickr.com/groups/therm-app-users/
Having first established that it was possible to detect the Moon using the Therm-App thermal camera, I set about gathering the necessary paraphernalia to get a close-up shot. A focal length of 500mm felt about right, so that's what I used. It also helped that it's what I had lying around.
I will be the first to admit that, in some respects, this is another deeply unimpressive image. It's not very sharp and there is virtually no surface detail. On the other hand, it is quite impressive to be able to focus on the Moon at frame-filling size with a thermal imager in your back yard. It took me quite a while to achieve that for the first time at visible wavelengths with a 35mm camera.
Next on the agenda will be trying to get some surface detail. I suspect the lack of detail in this image is simply down to the fact that the Moon is of fairly even temperature where it is evenly heated by the Sun. You only have to look at the difference between a full Moon photo and a waxing or waning Moon photo to see the beneficial effect of low-angle lighting on the visibility of craters, and I expect the same applies in thermal terms. But I had a clear sky tonight and just enough time to set up, so I tried it and it worked. Finessing the results can come later.
The image is relatively low contrast and I am surprised just how cold the Moon registered: it came up as 42°C and very bright when using the 19mm germanium lens and I would have expected it to be overwhelmingly bright with the 500mm optics. However, I have no measure of the efficiency of the longer focal length apparatus other than a dim memory of it having a very small aperture, somewhere in the region of f/11. Given that most optics used with uncooled microbolometers tend to be in the region of f/1 to f/1.4 I think it's amazing I saw anything at all, even from a (very) bright target. I believe we're looking at about a factor of 50 less energy reaching the sensor than it would get from a f/1 lens - and that is optimistically assuming equal efficiency.
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26 November 2022
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Published by Valentine & Sons, Ltd., Dundee & London. A "Phototype" card. Printed in Gt. Britain. c. Early 1900's. "Requiring 1 d. stamp if with only sender's name and address and only 5 words conventional greeting"
The Causeway Tramway was re-opened in 2002. The original Giants Causeway tramway was developed by Col. William Traill of Ballyclough. He commissioned the Siemens Company to incorporate their new electric tramcar technology for the Giants Causeway Tramway. Col.Traill built the generating station at the Walkmill Falls and installed water turbines to produce electrical power for the tram line. The tramway opened in 1883 and was the world’s first commercially run 'hydro-electric' powered tram system. Although hydro-electric power was used, it was normally two steam locomotives that hauled the carriages. The line ran from Portrush to Bushmills with an extension added to the Giants Causeway. In 1899 the live rail alongside the track, was replaced by an overhead electric wire, steam haulage ended in 1916. The tramway eventually closed in 1949.
Know as a Sail Assisted steam ship.
She had a long life because she was so economical to run, from 1845 to 1933.
As well as engines and a propeller she carried six masts with special "schooner" rig sails. This made her a very fuel efficient ship and saved money.
26 November 2022
The video on this article includes a very cute interview with a 3 year old lad :)
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To mark the 1st of April, we decided to get involved and have a bit of fun on April Fools Day 2012. Let us know if you fell for it! Comment or tweet us on twitter @romanltd.
Project 252 - A Year at Roman
Roman are set to launch a true industry first with the first ever ‘cordless’ showerhead. Their new wetroom panel features 10mm thick glass with a series of microscopic internal cavities, which feed the water up to the showerhead. The glass sits into a special pressurised U channel which is built into the tiles and feeds the series of needle-like water jets into the glass. The glass retains a flawless visual effect as the water flows, due to the microscopic nature of the cavities.
Managing Director David Osborne, said “the idea for this new wetroom panel came during a ‘blue sky’ R&D meeting where we all became side-tracked discussing Wonka-vision and Mike TV, but it has slowly but surely transferred itself into a ground-breaking new product.”
Creating the April Fools
The photograph pictured is our Sculptures Wet Linear Panel with the shower head of a previous shower valve super imposed onto the product.
We had to remove out the pipe work, reflections and 're-create' part of the white chair and towel bale.
Then finally adding in water and steam to create the final part of the illusion.
Thanks to www.obsidiandawn.com for their resources in helping achieve a water effect.
Be part of Project 252
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What you are looking at is THEE FIRST EVER photographic image EVER UPLOADED to the internet, by Tim Berners-Lee back in 1992.
The picture is of the CERN house band ''Les Horribles Cernettes''
The original picture was taken with a 35mm Canon EOS 650.
This picture was not taken by me nor is it my property, all credit must go to its author and respective owners.
Exactly 20 years ago now, who would have though we would be uploading pictures in their millions every single day.
26 November 2022
The video on this article includes a very cute interview with a 3 year old lad :)
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The 1906 Ford Model N hearse is powered by a two-cylinder, 10-hp engine. The vehicle has been something of a star, appearing on television in Downton Abbey, Mr Selfridge, and Suffragettes.
Jeremiah Frederick Shackletone, the great-uncle of the famous explorer Ernest Shackleton, started the family business in 1703. In the back you can see the original coffin that was made for Ernest Shackleton, after his death in 1922, but in the end his wife decided to have him buried where his died, in South Georgia.
The family owner and vehicle are invited guests of the London-to-Brighton, because it’s a 1906 model (the run is officially for vehicles manufactured before 1 January 1905).
The hearse started life as a one-ton flatbed lorry, to lift headstone and gravestones, with a crane on the back. At the outbreak of World War I, the government requisitioned the horses that pulled what until then had been a horse-drawn hearse, so it was decided to take the crane off the lorry and place the hearse carriage onto the back, and that was it.
Seen on Hanover Street, just off Lower Regent Street where a Royal Automobile Club event was being held in conjunction with the 125th running of the London-to-Brighton Veteran Car Run, which took place on the following day, Sunday 7 November 2021.