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Cool Metal Components China photos

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Some cool metal components china images:

Thames Festival Finale Fireworks

Image by Dominic’s pics
Element of a Set / Virtual Firework Display Slideshow documenting the firework show that marked the end of the &quotthe mayor’s&quot Thames Festival in London on the evening of Sunday September 11th 2011.

The display was presented by Pains Fireworks.

A delay in the start off of the show from the scheduled time was attributed by the crowds to incompetence by &quotBumbling Boris&quot Johnson – the London Mayor – portion of the British patrician &quotlimited liability&quot ruling class. &quotI’m in charge, but if anything goes incorrect, somebody else will be sacked…&quot

Like the intense audio dynamic range of Taiko or Samba drumming, it is not really feasible to record the visual brilliance of fireworks with a camera. You have to knowledge firework displays reside, in individual. These photos have been taken at the slowest sensor speed (ISO 100), maximum aperture (to minimise diffraction &quotglare&quot effects) and with a variety of exposure times ranging from about .five to two seconds. The intense light brought on some &quotbleaching&quot of the paths of the lights, and so the colours have been enriched if Photoshop. (In retrospect I may possibly have utilised a slightly smaller sized aperture.)Additionally, the river and land areas have been selectively lightened in Photoshop. Fortuitously, a gentle breeze caused the smoke to drift eastwards, away from my vantage point on Waterloo Bridge, so the view of the fireworks was comparatively unobstructed by smoke.

Fireworks date from at least the 7th century in China. The colours are believed to have been conventional incandescent &quotblack body&quot bonfire colours: red, orange, yellow and white. (It is theoretically feasible to create pale blue just by heating, but this demands impracticably higher temperatures. It is not achievable to heat one thing to &quotgreen hot&quot or &quotpurple hot&quot.) It is believed that from about 1830 in Italy metal salts have been introduced to make a wider, richer hued, spectrum of colours by chemical luminescence. This strategy can be problematic, as it can be tough to develop stable, sensible, chemical compositions. It has been recommended that some shades of green are still challenging to accomplish.

Good Precision Parts Engineering photos

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Some cool precision components engineering pictures:

Image from web page 196 of “Railway mechanical engineer” (1916)

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Identifier: railwaymechanica94newy
Title: Railway mechanical engineer
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors:
Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad automobiles
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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be speedily applied to anymachine tool in the shop. Several machine shop tools arenot equipped with a pan and pump, due to the fact they are usedmostly for functioning on grey iron, but sometimes the ma-chine might be used on malleable iron or steel, in which casea coolant is important for the greatest benefits. In such instances, theportable unit illustrated can be utilized to great advantage.It may also be used on machines currently provided with acoolant program, which for some cause or other is out oforder. In this emergency the transportable method shown can be instantly brought into location and production will notbe interrupted. The Fulllo pump illustrated is a total, self-containedsystem, requiring practically nothing but attaching the motor cord tothe lump socket. The total height from the floor is only14 in., which pennits its being rolled below any ordinarylathe, as shown in the illustration. Provision is produced forattaching further splash boards when essential. Thepump and motor are totally covered, as a result affording

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Fulflo Portable Lubricating Unit Utilized with Turret Lathe ample protection from each liquids and dust. The outfitcan be utilized on grinding machines as w-ell as on lathes,milling machines, drill presses, gear cutters, and so forth. Thereis only one particular moving part in the pump namely, the impeller,which has no metal contact, and for that reason cannot wear outquickly. It is packed with metallic packing which willnot reduce the shaft. The bearings are nicely lubricated, andsince the shaft is hardened and ground, extended, continuedservice may be anticipated. MULTI GRADUATED PRECISION GRINDER It has Ijeen tough in the past to machine screw threadsurfaces with the same accuracy obtained in machiningcylindrical, flat or spherical surfaces. On account of thisfact, it has been difficult to make master thread gages and themachine illustrated was created for this goal by thePrecision &amp Thread Grinder Manufacturing Company, Phil-adelphia, Pa. It can be employed in conjunction with anymachine tool and is adaptable to a selection

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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: North American P-51C, “Excalibur III”, with tails of Concorde & Boeing 707 in background

Image by Chris Devers
Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | North American P-51C, &quotExcalibur III&quot:

On Could 29, 1951, Capt. Charles F. Blair flew Excalibur III from Norway across the North Pole to Alaska in a record-setting 10½ hours. Making use of a method of meticulously plotted &quotsun lines&quot he created, Blair was in a position to navigate with precision exactly where conventional magnetic compasses usually failed. 4 months earlier, he had flown Excalibur III from New York to London in significantly less than eight hours, breaking the existing mark by over an hour.

Excalibur III very first belonged to famed aviator A. Paul Mantz, who added added fuel tanks for long-distance racing to this normal P-51C fighter. With it Mantz won the 1946 and 1947 Bendix air race and set a transcontinental speed record in 1947 when the airplane was named Blaze of Noon. Blair bought it from Mantz in 1949 and renamed it Excalibur III, following the Sikorsky VS-44 flying boat he flew for American Export Airlines.

Present of Pan American Planet Airways

Manufacturer:
North American Aircraft Firm

Date:
1944

Nation of Origin:
United States of America

Dimensions:
Wingspan: 11.three m (37 ft)
Length: 9.eight m (32 ft three in)
Height: three.9 m (12 ft ten in)
Weight, empty: 4,445 kg (9,800 lb)
Weight, gross: 5,052 kg (11,800 lb)
Leading speed: 700 km/h (435 mph)

Supplies:
Overall: Aluminum

Physical Description:
Single seat, single engine, low wing monoplane, Planet War II fighter modified for racing.

• • • • •

Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Boeing 367-80 Jet Transport:

On July 15, 1954, a graceful, swept-winged aircraft, bedecked in brown and yellow paint and powered by four revolutionary new engines 1st took to the sky above Seattle. Built by the Boeing Aircraft Company, the 367-80, greater recognized as the Dash 80, would come to revolutionize industrial air transportation when its created version entered service as the renowned Boeing 707, America’s 1st jet airliner.

In the early 1950s, Boeing had begun to study the possibility of creating a jet-powered military transport and tanker to complement the new generation of Boeing jet bombers entering service with the U.S. Air Force. When the Air Force showed no interest, Boeing invested million of its personal capital to build a prototype jet transport in a daring gamble that the airlines and the Air Force would buy it after the aircraft had flown and verified itself. As Boeing had accomplished with the B-17, it risked the company on 1 roll of the dice and won.

Boeing engineers had initially primarily based the jet transport on research of improved designs of the Model 367, better identified to the public as the C-97 piston-engined transport and aerial tanker. By the time Boeing progressed to the 80th iteration, the design and style bore no resemblance to the C-97 but, for security reasons, Boeing decided to let the jet project be identified as the 367-80.

Operate proceeded swiftly right after the formal start off of the project on May possibly 20, 1952. The 367-80 mated a huge cabin primarily based on the dimensions of the C-97 with the 35-degree swept-wing design primarily based on the wings of the B-47 and B-52 but considerably stiffer and incorporating a pronounced dihedral. The wings had been mounted low on the fuselage and incorporated higher-speed and low-speed ailerons as effectively as a sophisticated flap and spoiler technique. 4 Pratt &amp Whitney JT3 turbojet engines, every producing 10,000 pounds of thrust, have been mounted on struts beneath the wings.

Upon the Dash 80’s initial flight on July 15, 1954, (the 34th anniversary of the founding of the Boeing Firm) Boeing clearly had a winner. Flying 100 miles per hour quicker than the de Havilland Comet and considerably bigger, the new Boeing had a maximum variety of much more than 3,500 miles. As hoped, the Air Force bought 29 examples of the design as a tanker/transport after they convinced Boeing to widen the design by 12 inches. Satisfied, the Air Force designated it the KC-135A. A total of 732 KC-135s were constructed.

Quickly Boeing turned its attention to promoting the airline industry on this new jet transport. Clearly the sector was impressed with the capabilities of the prototype 707 but never ever far more so than at the Gold Cup hydroplane races held on Lake Washington in Seattle, in August 1955. In the course of the festivities surrounding this occasion, Boeing had gathered a lot of airline representatives to appreciate the competitors and witness a fly past of the new Dash 80. To the audience’s intense delight and Boeing’s profound shock, test pilot Alvin &quotTex&quot Johnston barrel-rolled the Dash 80 over the lake in full view of thousands of astonished spectators. Johnston vividly displayed the superior strength and overall performance of this new jet, readily convincing the airline sector to get this new airliner.

In searching for a market, Boeing discovered a prepared consumer in Pan American Airway’s president Juan Trippe. Trippe had been spending a lot of his time looking for a appropriate jet airliner to allow his pioneering business to sustain its leadership in international air travel. Working with Boeing, Trippe overcame Boeing’s resistance to widening the Dash-80 design and style, now recognized as the 707, to seat six passengers in every single seat row rather than 5. Trippe did so by placing an order with Boeing for 20 707s but also ordering 25 of Douglas’s competing DC-8, which had but to fly but could accommodate six-abreast seating. At Pan Am’s insistence, the 707 was produced four inches wider than the Dash 80 so that it could carry 160 passengers six-abreast. The wider fuselage created for the 707 became the regular style for all of Boeing’s subsequent narrow-body airliners.

Though the British de Havilland D.H. 106 Comet and the Soviet Tupolev Tu-104 entered service earlier, the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 were larger, more quickly, had higher range, and had been far more lucrative to fly. In October 1958 Pan American ushered the jet age into the United States when it opened international service with the Boeing 707 in October 1958. National Airlines inaugurated domestic jet service two months later using a 707-120 borrowed from Pan Am. American Airlines flew the initial domestic 707 jet service with its personal aircraft in January 1959. American set a new speed mark when it opened the first often-scheduled transcontinental jet service in 1959. Subsequent nonstop flights amongst New York and San Francisco took only 5 hours – three hours much less than by the piston-engine DC-7. The a single-way fare, such as a surcharge for jet service, was five.50, or 1 round trip. The flight was nearly 40 percent more rapidly and virtually 25 percent more affordable than flying by piston-engine airliners. The consequent surge of targeted traffic demand was substantial.

The 707 was originally designed for transcontinental or a single-cease transatlantic variety. But modified with further fuel tanks and more efficient turbofan engines, the 707-300 Intercontinental series aircraft could fly nonstop across the Atlantic with full payload below any situations. Boeing constructed 855 707s, of which 725 were bought by airlines worldwide.

Having launched the Boeing Company into the commercial jet age, the Dash 80 soldiered on as a highly effective experimental aircraft. Till its retirement in 1972, the Dash 80 tested numerous advanced systems, many of which have been incorporated into later generations of jet transports. At one point, the Dash 80 carried three distinct engine kinds in its four nacelles. Serving as a test bed for the new 727, the Dash 80 was briefly equipped with a fifth engine mounted on the rear fuselage. Engineers also modified the wing in planform and contour to study the effects of diverse airfoil shapes. Many flap configurations were also fitted which includes a highly sophisticated method of &quotblown&quot flaps which redirected engine exhaust over the flaps to increase lift at low speeds. Fin height and horizontal stabilizer width was later improved and at one particular point, a special a number of wheel low stress landing gear was fitted to test the feasibility of operating future heavy military transports from unprepared landing fields.

After a extended and distinguished profession, the Boeing 367-80 was finally retired and donated to the Smithsonian in 1972. At present, the aircraft is installated at the National Air and Space Museum’s new facility at Washington Dulles International Airport.

Present of the Boeing Company

Manufacturer:
Boeing Aircraft Co.

Date:
1954

Nation of Origin:
United States of America

Dimensions:
Height 19′ 2&quot: Length 73′ ten&quot: Wing Span 129′ eight&quot: Weight 33,279 lbs.

Physical Description:
Prototype Boeing 707 yellow and brown.

• • • • •

Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Concorde, Fox Alpha, Air France:

The initial supersonic airliner to enter service, the Concorde flew thousands of passengers across the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound for more than 25 years. Developed and built by Aérospatiale of France and the British Aviation Corporation, the graceful Concorde was a stunning technological achievement that could not overcome serious financial troubles.

In 1976 Air France and British Airways jointly inaugurated Concorde service to destinations about the globe. Carrying up to 100 passengers in excellent comfort, the Concorde catered to 1st class passengers for whom speed was vital. It could cross the Atlantic in fewer than four hours – half the time of a traditional jet airliner. Even so its higher operating charges resulted in really higher fares that restricted the number of passengers who could afford to fly it. These problems and a shrinking industry at some point forced the reduction of service till all Concordes were retired in 2003.

In 1989, Air France signed a letter of agreement to donate a Concorde to the National Air and Space Museum upon the aircraft’s retirement. On June 12, 2003, Air France honored that agreement, donating Concorde F-BVFA to the Museum upon the completion of its last flight. This aircraft was the 1st Air France Concorde to open service to Rio de Janeiro, Washington, D.C., and New York and had flown 17,824 hours.

Present of Air France.

Manufacturer:
Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale
British Aircraft Corporation

Dimensions:
Wingspan: 25.56 m (83 ft 10 in)
Length: 61.66 m (202 ft 3 in)
Height: 11.3 m (37 ft 1 in)
Weight, empty: 79,265 kg (174,750 lb)
Weight, gross: 181,435 kg (400,000 lb)
Leading speed: 2,179 km/h (1350 mph)
Engine: 4 Rolls-Royce/SNECMA Olympus 593 Mk 602, 17,259 kg (38,050 lb) thrust every
Manufacturer: Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale, Paris, France, and British Aircraft Corporation, London, United Kingdom

Physical Description:
Aircaft Serial Number: 205. Such as four (4) engines, bearing respectively the serial quantity: CBE066, CBE062, CBE086 and CBE085.
Also included, aircraft plaque: &quotAIR FRANCE Lorsque viendra le jour d’exposer Concorde dans un musee, la Smithsonian Institution a dores et deja choisi, pour le Musee de l’Air et de l’Espace de Washington, un appariel portant le couleurs d’Air France.&quot

Cool Milling Engineering photos

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Some cool milling engineering images:

Hagen – Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Zink Walzwerk Karusellgießer Fa. Hoesch

Image by Daniel Mennerich
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik English: &quotLWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics&quot) is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, collectively with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was very first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe inside North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.

The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades basically &quotdisplayed&quot along with their workshops and tools, but in a lot more than twenty of the almost sixty rebuilt workshops, they are nonetheless practised, and interested guests can, often by themselves, take part in the production.

As early as the 1920s, there have been efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even recommended the Mäckingerbach valley as a good location for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was chosen, as wind, water and wood had been the 3 most crucial place factors for industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. Unlike most open-air museums, which show each day life on the farm or in the nation as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century by means of the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the hugely industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can experience the development of these trades and the business in the area.

Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum contain ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and much a lot more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. As soon as the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to perform noisily forging a scythe, passing it in between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a procedure named peening.

The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.

Hagen – Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Sensenschmiede 07

Image by Daniel Mennerich
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik English: &quotLWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics&quot) is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.

The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades just &quotdisplayed&quot along with their workshops and tools, but in much more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are nevertheless practised, and interested visitors can, occasionally by themselves, take component in the production.

As early as the 1920s, there were efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a very good location for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was selected, as wind, water and wood were the 3 most important place variables for market in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. In contrast to most open-air museums, which show each day life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century by way of the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the very industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can encounter the development of these trades and the industry in the region.

Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum incorporate ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and significantly much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. As soon as the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to function noisily forging a scythe, passing it amongst the hammer and the anvil underneath in a method known as peening.

The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.

Hagen – Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Sensenschmiede 04

Image by Daniel Mennerich
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik English: &quotLWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics&quot) is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr location, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, collectively with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.

The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it requires a hands-on strategy. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades basically &quotdisplayed&quot along with their workshops and tools, but in a lot more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are nonetheless practised, and interested visitors can, at times by themselves, take portion in the production.

As early as the 1920s, there have been efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a good place for a museum to that finish. The narrow valley was selected, as wind, water and wood had been the 3 most critical place factors for market in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. In contrast to most open-air museums, which show everyday life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century by way of the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the highly industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can knowledge the development of these trades and the sector in the region.

Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum contain ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and considerably much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to function noisily forging a scythe, passing it amongst the hammer and the anvil underneath in a procedure named peening.

The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.

Cool Fast Prototyping photos

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Verify out these quick prototyping images:

Fading on, then rolling more than

Image by Spyderella
Here you can watch the fade-on impact as each and every time interval elapses (set to six seconds alternatively of ten minutes in the course of the prototyping and building phase), and then the flip to the other hour indicator when the &quothour&quot rolls over.

The fade is achieved employing PWM (pulse-width modulation), the technique by which you make a digital (on/off) device like an LED act in an analog style (variable brightness). PWM signifies the LED is speedily switching amongst on and off, so rapidly that you never see the flickr. If the &quoton&quot period is the identical duration as the &quotoff&quot period–that is, 50/50–then the LED appears half as bright as a normal LED. If it spends a little much more time off than on, then it will appear dimmer yet. The Arduino comes with six pins already set up to take care of the PWM effect for you you can create to the pins as if they have been analog, so that’s what I’m using right here. In the Arduino system (called a &quotsketch&quot), I increase the brightness worth inside a loop, and the LED fades on.

DEMO-Founder-College-Muir-01560

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Clover Foods CEO Ayr Muir gives a keynote entitled ‘Rapid Prototyping in The Quickly Meals Business’ for the duration of DEMO Fall 2013 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California Wednesday October 16, 2013. Comprehensive coverage of DEMO, the Launchpad for Emerging Technologies and Trends, can be found at bit.ly/DEMOsite.

Cool Precision Engineering Organizations photos

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Check out these precision engineering businesses images:

Image from page 149 of “Railway and locomotive engineering : a sensible journal of railway motive power and rolling stock” (1901)

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Identifier: railwaylocomotiv24newy
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive energy and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors:
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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-jected to all manner of importunities toside-step or distort details already stated. A night train was descending the gradeinto a division station where a change ofengines was to be produced. As the trainapproached the station it was not underfull manage and the engineer, evidently infear of striking the engine waiting to re-lieve him, jumped off and was killed. Thesuit was promptly instituted against thetailroad organization and long soon after, I withnumerous other people, were notified to appearat the court property of a fairly tiny In-diana city, on a specific date. The courtconvened in due time, a jury was drawnand soon after a number of preliminaries,among which was a supply of cuspidorsfor the granger jurymen, all of whomwere vigorously chewing plug tobacco, andoccasionally expectorating at the nearestcuspidor with practically the precision of aprojectile fired from a gun, the trial started.For some purpose not apparent I was re-tained as the final witness and as a conse-quence I sat for numerous days in the court

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TANK LOCOMOTIVE FOR THE KOWLOON-CANTON RAILW each and every. The passenger coaches are of thebogie type, with corridor, and fittedthroughout with electric light and allmodern improvements. There are alto-gether eight passenger coaches. Thecompletion of this line will no doubtprove to be of fantastic value to Britishand other interests in China. These factsshow also the little beginnings fromwhich railway enterprises frequently commence.China is awakening, and in a couple of yearsit is probable that the complete country willbe covered with the modern steel higher-methods of commerce. Old-Time Railroad Reminiscences.By S. J. Kidder. I believe a somewhat general impressionprevails among the railroad laymen thata man who gets into the air brake busi-ness has his time fairly completely occupied inlooking soon after such issues as pertain to I have been named upon fairly a numbercf occasions to seem as a witness on behalfof railroads, but thankfully was in a position toget off with but slight cross-examinationby resorting to some of the intr

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Leica X1 Assessment

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The Leica X1 appears and feels like the precision instrument that you would count on it to be. It is a Leica after all. For more than one hundred years Leica has engineered and crafted state-of-the-art optical instruments, and the Leica X1 is no exception – it continues the tradition.

What is the Leica X1? Simply place it is a big sensor, tiny body digital camera. By massive sensor Elvis means significantly bigger than the sensors found in pocket sized point and shoot cameras. In fact, the sensor in the X1 is almost as big as the sensors discovered in digital SLR cameras. Bigger sensor generally indicates higher image quality (a lot more on that in a moment). By tiny physique Elvis indicates significantly smaller than digital SLR cameras. Smaller body indicates less difficult to carry and have with you (and less difficult to hide for you secret agent types).

What does all of this imply? Essentially it implies that you can have image quality nearly as high as an SLR camera in a package almost as small as a point and shoot camera. These are both quite good issues.

You can note that the Leica X1 is not a do everything camera and be disappointed. It does not have lots of menus filled with shooting choices, post processing choices or an array of fancy shooting gimmicks and tricks. It doesn’t have (gasp!) video. You happen to be stuck with a 35mm field of view lens. Or you can take the alternative view as Elvis does and look at the Leica X1 as a do a single thing really properly camera and be happy.

The Leica X1 is basic to operate. You won’t miss shots since you left your menu settings on some silly choice. You won’t waste time more than-considering which shooting alternative or which lens to use. You won’t be disappointed with the shaky video that you get with most SLR cameras. You will be amazed at the image quality. And you are going to be tickled with the famous Leica &quotlook&quot that you can only get with genuine Leica lenses.

Leading 5 Factors to Really like the Leica X1

The Leica lens and the Leica lens &quotlook&quot
It compliments your digital SLR
Ease of use
Image Good quality
Image High quality

NOTE: Elvis’ testimonials are based on gear that Elvis bought with his own, challenging-earned income. This means that Elvis went via some sort of justification in acquiring the piece of gear and/or that it was probably to fill some want. Elvis does not acquire stuff just to assessment it. Consequently, if you’re searching for reasons not to like the Leica X1 you will want to look elsewhere. Elvis is a lover, not a hater. The intent of this review is to show you what the X1 can and can not do, how it operates in actual operation and what you can count on in end benefits. The intent is not to nit pick the X1 or to evaluate it to a variety of other cameras in some sort of contest.

The Leica Lens &amp The Leica &quotLook&quot

The Leica lens integrated with every single X1 is a valid purpose to obtain the X1. It really is a 24mm f/two.eight Elmarit. Leica aficionados recognize that to be a globe class lens. To these new to Leica, let Elvis to assure you that the lens top quality is of the highest order. The &quotlook&quot of a lens, or household of lenses is difficult to describe. Ineffable, really. It will not quit Elvis from trying though. Elvis’ two favorite lenses ever are the Leica 35 f/two Summicron aspherical and the Nikon 85 f/1.4. These two lenses are bright, sharp, have a remarkable flatness of field and when used appropriately make quite pleasing out of concentrate ( bokeh ) places. These attributes make for great landscapes and spectacular portraits. Elvis argues that these two lenses are so very good that you can justify acquiring a great camera physique on which to attach them. They really are that good.

What does that have to do with the lens on the X1? The 24mm on the X1 produces photographs that give a &quotlook&quot that is comparable to Elvis’ two favored lenses described above. Vibrant, sharp, flat field and pleasing out-of-concentrate places. And do not let the 24mm moniker concern you. As an APS-C sensor camera there is a multiplication aspect to consider: 1.five. That 24mm on the X1 offers you a 35mm field of view, which is just about the most versatile field of view there is.

Take a close appear at the sample pictures provided by Elvis. Click on every single image to view the photos in their full-file glory. And click on More Pictures to see, well, Far more Photos.

It Compliments Your Digital SLR

The X1 is the ideal (and Elvis means ideal) camera with which to compliment your digital SLR. Your SLR gives you lots of shooting possibilities, lots of lens choices, video and all types of fun tricks to play around with. That is your principal camera. The Leica X1 compliments this by getting tiny and pocketable with higher image high quality. Going on trip? Use your SLR at Disney Globe, on the vehicle trip to the mountaintop lookout and on photography certain excursions. Pack the X1 for street shooting, at the beach, hiking and when out to dinner. Shooting a sporting occasion? The SLR is excellent for action shots throughout the game. The X1 is great for shooting the group for the duration of pre-game pep talks, players on the sidelines and right after game celebrations and group activities. Weddings? SLR is fantastic for formals and receptions. Leica X1 is great for in the course of the ceremony given that it is silent in operation. You get the notion. With an SLR and an X1 you are well equipped for any photographic opportunity.

Ease of Use

In use the Leica X1 is terrific. Take a couple of minutes to recognize the few shooting possibilities that the X1 provides, set your favorites and you are now prepared to shoot at a moment’s notice. There is absolutely nothing to the X1 that will slow you down. It really is a photographic machine – plain and easy.

Is it the quickest focusing camera ever? No it is not. In dim light it can take a handful of seconds to focus. But keep in mind that the Leica lens is sharp and what you want is precise focusing to take benefit of that sharp lens. Just like a manually focused lens it can take a moment to get it critically right. And in medium to vibrant light it’s quickly. (See Elvis’ test of the enhanced focusing speed with new firmware Right here).

The battery and charger are both little and portable. The SD cards employed in the X1 are universally accepted, fast and durable (and low-cost). The DNG files can be opened with virtually any photo editing application and are claimed to be future-proof.

The little size and light weight of the Leica X1 can’t be overstated. The camera is extremely effortless to deal with, use and pocket. But don’t let the size and weight fool you – it is built to exacting standards and is jewel-like and elegant to hold.

It may quite nicely be the camera with the highest image high quality that you could hand to a stranger to take your image in front of (name landmark right here) and not need to explain to the stranger how to use it. It’s simplicity belies it’s strength.

Image Quality

If you are familiar with Leica imaging you will instantly recognize that pedigree in the X1 photographs. If you are new to Leica you are in for a treat. The X1, like the Leica M series of cameras and lenses, produces sparkling, clear and crisp photographs with smooth and pleasing out of concentrate locations. Lack of flare and lack of field curvature are other traits in the planet of Leica.

You needn’t appear hard to discern Leica photographs. It really is instantly apparent. Elvis is particularly fond of the crispness of Leica photographs. It really is not specifically sharpness and it’s not specifically contrast – it is crispness (Elvis warned you at the outset of this evaluation that these are difficult issues to define). Just appear at the samples and see if you can note these factors.

Point and shoot cameras and four/3rds cameras are no match for the Leica X1 when it comes to image quality. Some DSLRs can have a slight edge but at a size and weight expense. The Fuji X100 is a close match in a distinct (not as basic) physique, and should be a camera that you consider (see Elvis’ comparison of the Leica X1 and Fuji X100 Here), but it won’t give you the Leica &quotlook&quot, ease of use or pocket ability.

When it comes to image quality, engineering matters. Leica excels at engineering. Some primary keys are sensor high quality, lens (glass, not plastic) quality, lens-to-sensor distance, lens element positioning and consistency, lens element coatings, use of aspherical surfaces, durability of supplies used. All of these regions are strengths of the Leica firm and have been for generations.

Superior lens glass is more critical than a high resolution image monitor. A superior sensor is much more important than a video mode. A clean and straightforward but very technical light path is far more critical than page after web page of shooting and post processing possibilities. You get the idea right here. Leica focused on the image path and little else.

A larger image sensor is a extremely very good issue. All things being equal, a bigger sensor captures images with a greater dynamic range than a smaller sized sensor. Basically, greater dynamic range signifies much more detail in dark places, medium locations and light locations of the scene. Greater image quality. As a bonus, bigger image sensors generate a smaller depth of field for any given aperture setting, allowing for superior out of focus regions and image &quotpop&quot.

Leica managed to mount a big image sensor into a little camera and for the initial time we have a pocketable camera that can generate higher image quality. Some believed that the so-called 4 thirds method cameras were going to be the resolution. The sensor in the Leica X1 is roughly 60% larger than the four thirds sensors and in Elvis’ estimation the resulting image top quality is at least double. There’s practically nothing incorrect with the 4 thirds cameras but the X1 image top quality is greater. The image sensor in the X1 is eight to ten instances larger than the sensors in common point and shoot cameras. You don’t require Elvis to do that math for you.

In a planet of do-it-all cameras with choices as well numerous to mention (let alone completely understand) one particular could say that Leica took a flyer with the X1. Ignoring video, not getting tempted with gimmicks and gadgets could be considered a threat. But that would be a full misunderstanding of what Leica is. Leica has often been about stripping photography down to it really is bare essence. Focus on the image. Let other companies throw out dozens of possibilities to see what sticks. Leica must be applauded for putting a superior, big sensor behind a true Leica lens and stuffing each into an elegant and portable body.

For a complete set of sample photos taken with the Leica X1 got to Elvis Kennedy’s Leica X1 group folder of the photostream. The outcome of all of this engineering is that you can get a high image quality creating machine in a modest and elegant package. A correct industry top item, the Leica X1.

For the complete set of sample photographs go Right here, and be certain to hit the &quotO&quot button above every single image to see them in their Original, complete size.

For far more go to www.elviskennedy.com

Douglas A-3 Skywarrior simulator cab:

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Note VAK-308 sticker
This simulator has ‘stuff’ for the pilot and the bombardier-navigator/refueling/electronic warfare wizard. No co-pilot in an A-3. The stuff in front of the proper seat would have been bombing and navigation equipment, initially. From my check out to the actual EKA-3B outside, I do not think this is the same appropriate-seat stuff as that a tanker. Could be earlier, later, some of each, for an ECM bird. The pilot and rear gunner sat back to back in the single, fore-and-aft-facing seat, on the left, which has no actual aft-facing seat in this image. There is some kind of an electronics box in the way….

The Navy insisted on the radar guided twin 20mm tail turret, which Heinimann &amp the Douglas engineers believed was unnecessary weight… but the turrets came off early and the squared-off fuselage endings contained who knew what neat radio antennae. And other stuff. A massive, capable aircraft, the A-3 was bought as a nuclear bomber, speedily discovered a second career as a tanker and added all sorts of electronic reconnaissance and electronic warfare capability in addition to hauling fuel for those who necessary it. For the very first time, over Vietnam and points east, airplanes with heretofore fatal fuel leaks from enemy fire could plug into a tanker and burn sufficient of the fuel pouring by way of them to fly property, Or close to property. Away from the shore.

As was distressingly widespread in the 1960s, when the Navy’s plane was put up against what the USAF had been buying, the Navy plane was much better. That’s how the USAF got the F-four Phantom II (quite briefly the F-110) and the A-7 (constantly the A-7). Neither the USAF nor Douglas could stop the gravitational drift that overwhelmed the &quotUSAF A-3&quot, which morphed into the Douglas B-66 Destroyer. Bet they cost a lot much more than an A-three. (a person have to have giggled more than that name…) No surprise, the USAF already had big tankers, so the B-66s became electronic warfare platforms in rapid time… over Vietnam, over Germany, and anywhere else the USAF flew in the 1960s.

You can locate images of a formation of F-105D &quotThunderchiefs&quot all dropping their iron bombs at the identical time, on signal from an RB-66, that presumably has a radar bombing set-up, and/or unique radio navigation aids. Because the bombs are being dropped through 10/10th cloud. Not, mmm, &quotprecision&quot weapon delivery, if you will. Several planes dropping numerous bombs and quite possibly in numerous attacks to take out a single target… say, the Paul Daumer Bridge or &quotHanoi Thermal Power Station&quot.

Its good to feel you could precompute almost everything and drop iron bombs from four-7 miles up and have a military impact. A lot of folks DID think that, but it wasn’t one thing that actually occurred. Unless you could drop hundreds of bombs from your three plane cells of B-52s. Finally, with Paveway laser-guided bombs, the USAF got precision weapons that really worked. Much more than a single target per plane, rather of a lot more than a single plane, more than one particular raid, per target.

Which is why the US Navy and Marine Corps aviators had place so much effort into hitting certain targets bang proper on the head using dive bombing. For instance, in Nicaragua, in the 1920s and 30s. And other ‘close air support’ strategies.

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Father’s day, 2013

Good Mechanical Engineering China photos

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Image from page 318 of “Railway mechanical engineer” (1916)
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Title: Railway mechanical engineer
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors:
Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad automobiles
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co
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n referred to, the Board of Communication rec-ommended an extension to Suiyuan. This undertakingreceived imjjerial sanction in 1909 and building wascommenced in the following year. The length of the secondsection is 2J5 miles. This, as nicely as all other imi)ortantlines in China, is of the common gage, four ft. XJj in. The line runs along the west wall of Pekin and then ina northwesterly direction to Nankow, passing over the WestHills via Nankow Pass, to Kaigan and thence to Fengchcuand Suiyuan. The principal rail connections are at Fengtaiwith the Pekin-Mukden and Pekin-Hankow lines, .hout7.S per cent of the income received is from freight and thebalance from jiassenger visitors. Tlie heaviest movementsare toward Pekin and Fengtai. Fair grades were obtainedfor tlie line witli the cxcejjtion of the portion more than the WestHills, at which point there is a grade of ,S..S3 per cent,11 miles long with uncom])ensated curves (jf 600 ft. radius.ibis grade ((lUrcIs tlie nidvenuiit nf tr.iffn.

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Mik.ido Lor.omotlvc U»ctl on Level Section* 305 306 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER Vol. 96, No. 6 Table of Dimensions, Weights and Proportions Cylinders, higher pressure 24 in. by 28 in. Cylinders, low pressure 38 in. by 28 in. Valves and valve setting: … , Kind and size, H.P Piston 14 in., single ported Type and size, L.P Piston 16 in., double ported Maximum travel H.P. 6A in., L.P. 6 in. Outside lap HP^ 1 in,, LP- !^ !• ExhLust clearance H.P. ■4 in., L.P. A in. Lead in complete gear H.P. H in., L.P. A in. Weights in worTv-ing order: On drivers ^S?™ r On front truck S^°2 ^ On trailing truck 29.000 b. Total engine 446,000 b. Tender 192.700 lb. Wteel base: Driving, every single engine i j &lt 11 Total engine L c Total engine and tender 85 It. six in. Wheels, diameter outdoors tires: Driving Front and trailing truck Tender Journals, diameter and length: . , ., • Driving, primary 10 .in. by 12 m. Driving, other individuals 9 in. by 12 in. Front and trailing truck 6 in. by 1-i in. Variety ^%Vn lb Steam press

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Jianwai SOHO 24
mechanical engineering china
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JIAN WAI SOHO
location: Beijing, China
principal use: several dwelling, shop, workplace, sport club, preschool
site location: 122,775 sq meters
developing location: 34,823 sq meters
total floor region: 504,237 sq meters
structure: reinforced concrete, partly steel frame
quantity of stories: two basements and 31 stories
architects: Riken Yamamoto &amp Field Shop, C+A, MIKAN, Beijing New Era Architectural Design and style, Beijing Dongfang Huatai Architectural &amp Engineering
structural engineers: Plus One Structural Des. &amp Eng. Firm
mechanical engineers: Kankyo Engineering
interior designers / furniture designers: Yasuo Kondo Design
sign designers: Hiromura Design and style Office

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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: south hangar panorama, including Grumman G-22 “Gulfhawk II”, Boeing 367-80 (707) Jet Transport, Air France Concorde amongst other folks

Image by Chris Devers
Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Grumman G-22 &quotGulfhawk II&quot:

A single of the most exciting aerobatic aircraft of the 1930s and ’40s, the Grumman Gulfhawk II was constructed for retired naval aviator and air show pilot Al Williams. As head of the Gulf Oil Company’s aviation department, Williams flew in military and civilian air shows around the nation, performing precision aerobatics and dive-bombing maneuvers to market military aviation throughout the interwar years.

The sturdy civilian biplane, with its robust aluminum monocoque fuselage and Wright Cyclone engine, practically matched the Grumman F3F regular Navy fighter, which was operational at the time. It took its orange paint scheme from Williams’ Curtiss 1A Gulfhawk, also in the Smithsonian’s collection. Williams personally piloted the Gulfhawk II on its last flight in 1948 to Washington’s National Airport.

Present of Gulf Oil Corporation

Manufacturer:
Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation

Date:
1936

Nation of Origin:
United States of America

Dimensions:
Wingspan: 8.7 m (28 ft 7 in)
Length: 7 m (23 ft)
Height: three.1 m (10 ft)
Weight, aerobatic: 1,625 kg (3,583 lb)
Weight, gross: 1,903 kg (4,195 lb)
Leading speed: 467 km/h (290 mph)
Engine: Wright Cyclone R-1820-G1, 1,000 hp

Supplies:
Fuselage: steel tube with aluminum alloy
Wings: aluminum spars and ribs with fabric cover

Physical Description:
NR1050. Aerobatic biplane flown by Significant Alford &quotAl&quot Williams as demonstration aircraft for Gulf Oil Business. Related to Grumman F3F single-seat fighter aircraft flown by the U.S. Navy. Wright Cyclone R-1820-G1 engine, 1000 hp.

• • • • •

Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Boeing 367-80 Jet Transport:

On July 15, 1954, a graceful, swept-winged aircraft, bedecked in brown and yellow paint and powered by four revolutionary new engines first took to the sky above Seattle. Constructed by the Boeing Aircraft Firm, the 367-80, far better known as the Dash 80, would come to revolutionize industrial air transportation when its created version entered service as the well-known Boeing 707, America’s first jet airliner.

In the early 1950s, Boeing had begun to study the possibility of creating a jet-powered military transport and tanker to complement the new generation of Boeing jet bombers getting into service with the U.S. Air Force. When the Air Force showed no interest, Boeing invested million of its personal capital to develop a prototype jet transport in a daring gamble that the airlines and the Air Force would acquire it as soon as the aircraft had flown and verified itself. As Boeing had done with the B-17, it risked the organization on 1 roll of the dice and won.

Boeing engineers had initially based the jet transport on studies of improved styles of the Model 367, better identified to the public as the C-97 piston-engined transport and aerial tanker. By the time Boeing progressed to the 80th iteration, the design and style bore no resemblance to the C-97 but, for security motives, Boeing decided to let the jet project be recognized as the 367-80.

Work proceeded speedily after the formal commence of the project on May 20, 1952. The 367-80 mated a huge cabin based on the dimensions of the C-97 with the 35-degree swept-wing design and style based on the wings of the B-47 and B-52 but considerably stiffer and incorporating a pronounced dihedral. The wings were mounted low on the fuselage and incorporated high-speed and low-speed ailerons as properly as a sophisticated flap and spoiler system. 4 Pratt &amp Whitney JT3 turbojet engines, each producing 10,000 pounds of thrust, had been mounted on struts beneath the wings.

Upon the Dash 80’s first flight on July 15, 1954, (the 34th anniversary of the founding of the Boeing Company) Boeing clearly had a winner. Flying one hundred miles per hour more quickly than the de Havilland Comet and significantly bigger, the new Boeing had a maximum variety of much more than 3,500 miles. As hoped, the Air Force bought 29 examples of the style as a tanker/transport soon after they convinced Boeing to widen the design and style by 12 inches. Satisfied, the Air Force designated it the KC-135A. A total of 732 KC-135s had been constructed.

Speedily Boeing turned its attention to promoting the airline industry on this new jet transport. Clearly the industry was impressed with the capabilities of the prototype 707 but in no way more so than at the Gold Cup hydroplane races held on Lake Washington in Seattle, in August 1955. For the duration of the festivities surrounding this occasion, Boeing had gathered several airline representatives to get pleasure from the competitors and witness a fly previous of the new Dash 80. To the audience’s intense delight and Boeing’s profound shock, test pilot Alvin &quotTex&quot Johnston barrel-rolled the Dash 80 over the lake in full view of thousands of astonished spectators. Johnston vividly displayed the superior strength and functionality of this new jet, readily convincing the airline industry to buy this new airliner.

In searching for a market place, Boeing located a prepared buyer in Pan American Airway’s president Juan Trippe. Trippe had been spending much of his time browsing for a suitable jet airliner to enable his pioneering firm to preserve its leadership in international air travel. Working with Boeing, Trippe overcame Boeing’s resistance to widening the Dash-80 design and style, now recognized as the 707, to seat six passengers in each seat row rather than 5. Trippe did so by putting an order with Boeing for 20 707s but also ordering 25 of Douglas’s competing DC-eight, which had yet to fly but could accommodate six-abreast seating. At Pan Am’s insistence, the 707 was produced 4 inches wider than the Dash 80 so that it could carry 160 passengers six-abreast. The wider fuselage developed for the 707 became the regular design for all of Boeing’s subsequent narrow-body airliners.

Despite the fact that the British de Havilland D.H. 106 Comet and the Soviet Tupolev Tu-104 entered service earlier, the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 were larger, quicker, had greater range, and had been a lot more lucrative to fly. In October 1958 Pan American ushered the jet age into the United States when it opened international service with the Boeing 707 in October 1958. National Airlines inaugurated domestic jet service two months later making use of a 707-120 borrowed from Pan Am. American Airlines flew the very first domestic 707 jet service with its personal aircraft in January 1959. American set a new speed mark when it opened the very first frequently-scheduled transcontinental jet service in 1959. Subsequent nonstop flights amongst New York and San Francisco took only five hours – 3 hours less than by the piston-engine DC-7. The one-way fare, such as a surcharge for jet service, was 5.50, or 1 round trip. The flight was virtually 40 % more rapidly and nearly 25 % less expensive than flying by piston-engine airliners. The consequent surge of targeted traffic demand was substantial.

The 707 was initially designed for transcontinental or one-stop transatlantic range. But modified with extra fuel tanks and far more effective turbofan engines, the 707-300 Intercontinental series aircraft could fly nonstop across the Atlantic with complete payload under any conditions. Boeing constructed 855 707s, of which 725 had been purchased by airlines worldwide.

Obtaining launched the Boeing Company into the industrial jet age, the Dash 80 soldiered on as a very productive experimental aircraft. Until its retirement in 1972, the Dash 80 tested several advanced systems, many of which had been incorporated into later generations of jet transports. At one point, the Dash 80 carried three different engine types in its 4 nacelles. Serving as a test bed for the new 727, the Dash 80 was briefly equipped with a fifth engine mounted on the rear fuselage. Engineers also modified the wing in planform and contour to study the effects of diverse airfoil shapes. Numerous flap configurations have been also fitted like a hugely sophisticated method of &quotblown&quot flaps which redirected engine exhaust more than the flaps to boost lift at low speeds. Fin height and horizontal stabilizer width was later enhanced and at one particular point, a specific numerous wheel low pressure landing gear was fitted to test the feasibility of operating future heavy military transports from unprepared landing fields.

Soon after a long and distinguished career, the Boeing 367-80 was ultimately retired and donated to the Smithsonian in 1972. At present, the aircraft is installated at the National Air and Space Museum’s new facility at Washington Dulles International Airport.

Gift of the Boeing Business

Manufacturer:
Boeing Aircraft Co.

Date:
1954

Country of Origin:
United States of America

Dimensions:
Height 19′ two&quot: Length 73′ 10&quot: Wing Span 129′ eight&quot: Weight 33,279 lbs.

Physical Description:
Prototype Boeing 707 yellow and brown.

• • • • •

Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Concorde, Fox Alpha, Air France:

The first supersonic airliner to enter service, the Concorde flew thousands of passengers across the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound for over 25 years. Made and constructed by Aérospatiale of France and the British Aviation Corporation, the graceful Concorde was a beautiful technological achievement that could not overcome critical economic problems.

In 1976 Air France and British Airways jointly inaugurated Concorde service to destinations around the globe. Carrying up to one hundred passengers in fantastic comfort, the Concorde catered to initial class passengers for whom speed was crucial. It could cross the Atlantic in fewer than 4 hours – half the time of a traditional jet airliner. Even so its high operating costs resulted in very higher fares that restricted the quantity of passengers who could afford to fly it. These problems and a shrinking industry at some point forced the reduction of service until all Concordes had been retired in 2003.

In 1989, Air France signed a letter of agreement to donate a Concorde to the National Air and Space Museum upon the aircraft’s retirement. On June 12, 2003, Air France honored that agreement, donating Concorde F-BVFA to the Museum upon the completion of its final flight. This aircraft was the 1st Air France Concorde to open service to Rio de Janeiro, Washington, D.C., and New York and had flown 17,824 hours.

Gift of Air France.

Manufacturer:
Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale
British Aircraft Corporation

Dimensions:
Wingspan: 25.56 m (83 ft ten in)
Length: 61.66 m (202 ft three in)
Height: 11.3 m (37 ft 1 in)
Weight, empty: 79,265 kg (174,750 lb)
Weight, gross: 181,435 kg (400,000 lb)
Top speed: two,179 km/h (1350 mph)
Engine: Four Rolls-Royce/SNECMA Olympus 593 Mk 602, 17,259 kg (38,050 lb) thrust every
Manufacturer: Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale, Paris, France, and British Aircraft Corporation, London, United Kingdom

Physical Description:
Aircaft Serial Number: 205. Which includes four (4) engines, bearing respectively the serial number: CBE066, CBE062, CBE086 and CBE085.
Also included, aircraft plaque: &quotAIR FRANCE Lorsque viendra le jour d’exposer Concorde dans un musee, la Smithsonian Institution a dores et deja choisi, pour le Musee de l’Air et de l’Espace de Washington, un appariel portant le couleurs d’Air France.&quot

Cool China Prototyping photos

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A collection of fast prototyping models (ZPrint) produced in the Pratt Institute School of Architecture 2007 PreFab China Style Studio:Evan Douglis, Richard Sarrach, Che-Wei Wang, Eric Wong

Operate made by: Dan Breitner, Andres Correa , Brad Rothenberg

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Cool Cnc Engineering Services photos

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Handrail Jog

Image by Caliper Studio
Center stringer comfort stair connects two office floors in Starret Lehigh developing. Stringer and slab edge assemblies are blackened. Twenty four stainless steel treads are welded to the stringer type a continuous ribbon. 1 1/4&quot diameter handrail posts are continuous bent &quotC&quot shapes that wrap about treds and are welded to stringer. Stair was delivered to internet site in one particular piece [24′ extended 3′ wide 3′ tall @ 2000lbs. Glass is two 1/2&quot layers of low iron tempered glass with PVB interlayer. Every panel is a 148.375&quotx41.25&quot rectangle that weighs 522lbs. Cut out in concrete floor is trimmed with a box of 1/2&quot thick blackened steel that was fully prewelded in the shop. The box picks up the load at best of stair and serves as a custom base shoe for the glass.

Style by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Detailing, Fabrication and Installation by Caliper Studio. Caliper Studio engaged Eckersley O’Callaghan &amp partners for engineering solutions.

Nice China Sheet Metal photos

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ROM Royal Ontario Museum 2010

Image by BRJ INC.
JNF Charity Box, Palestinian, for use in Germany. Sheet metal, enamel. 999.119.51

These photographs are from my go to to the Royal Ontario Museum. I went because they have been getting a unique exhibit featuring the terracota army. Even though photographs of the figures themselves have been strictly prohibited I nonetheless managed to get some great shots from other exhibits the museum was getting.

Image from page 909 of “The Ladies’ house journal” (1889)

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Identifier: ladieshomejourna65janwyet
Title: The Ladies’ home journal
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945
Subjects: Women’s periodicals Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive
Publisher: Philadelphia : [s.n.]
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Add Pepper-Corn Tomatoes to Treet! It wont be extended til this repair-straightforward meal is a reg-ular on your menu—by well-liked request! Seasoncooked frozen corn with pepper and salt, butterand !four cup chopped green peppers. Fill hollowtomatoes with corn and place in a shallow pan.Bake in 350° F. oven for 20 minutes or untiltender. Slice Treet into 8 slices and fry in Clover-bloom butter for three minutes, turning as soon as. Makesa wonderfully delicious meal for 4. ForadditionalrecipesforPantry-ShelJMeah.create MarieCifford, Dept.248, P. O. Box 2051, Chicago 9, Illinois.

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The greatest and practically nothing but the bestis labeled 242 tant relative of President Benes of Czecho-slovakia. Stassens mother is a dark-eyed, keen-witted lady of German and Danish de-scent. One particular of Stassens three brothers runsa regional grocery retailer, yet another is a sheet-metal worker and a third drove a milk truckuntil a year ago, when he took a job as aState gasoline-tax inspector. Young Stassen worked on his parentsfarm from the time he was old adequate to behelpful. In the summers he ran a roadsidevegetable stand, and raised pigeons and rab-bits for sale as food. At one particular time he did anextensive company in guinea pigs with amedical laboratory. He attended Baptistchurch and Sunday college, and the first longtrip he ever created away from home was witha group of Sunday-school pupils who jour-neyed to Atlantic AP a brief, round-faced and companionalow student, to go into partnership wiin a tiny law office in South St. Pafar from his birthplace. Ryan was acrat and Stassen was currently an cRepublican, but

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