Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Monday, July 6, 2026
Stationary steam engine
Look at those castings. No human included for scale but that's an impressive hunk of iron.
Blowing engine - Wikipedia
Longines poster; The measure of time
Another great poster from the European art deco era of graphic design.
Artist: René Bleuer
Sunday, July 5, 2026
Sidecar Sunday, missed opportunity
Back in the 1980s when everyone was overreacting about the 3wheel ATCs, Missile Engineering offered a two wheel conversion kit to convert the machines into proper two wheelers. I never saw the kit back in the day, but to me an obvious project would be to utilize that now-underemployed third wheel to create a sidecar rig for the machine. A bit tongue-in-cheek perhaps, but I wonder if anyone ever did.
Drew discovered that Dirt Wheels tested the machine in 1989 and sent me this. Link here.
The Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star
I found this picture of a Constellation with radomes in an old Popular Electronics magazine, figured it must have been an artist's rendition of someone's fantasy but nope, there are lots of better pictures online.
The Navy actually ordered 142 of these aircraft and used them for all sorts of early warning duties over the years. They were in service from 1949 till the mid seventies with one remaining- on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola.
Saturday, July 4, 2026
Lathe vs Milling machine
The message is clear, nerds run lathes but cool, tough guys run mills.
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| John Feirer and Earl Tetro, Machine Tool Metalworking, McGraw-Hill, 1961 |
Friday, July 3, 2026
Bell 500 helmet
In 1954 California speed shop owner Roy Richter came up with a new design of motorsports safety helmet, utilizing the new fiberglass molding process.
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