Excellent video series “The Machine That Changed The World” spotted via True Films. The Machine That Changed The World WGBH Television and BBC 1992 Part 1: Great Brains Part 2: Inventing the Future Part 3: The Paperback Computer Part 4: The Thinking Machine Part 5: The World at Your Fingertips Also available as a single […]
A lovely “mostly old transistor radio” photo set….
Here’s a gorgeous pair of steampunk goggles (just in time for Halloween), done in titanium, brass, and leather. Their makjer, Anticz, writes: The main housing and attach points for the nose and temple pieces are milled from a solid billet of Titanium alloy. I chose Titanium for several reasons. First, it’s much lighter in weight […]
Electric miniature mono-railway Modern Mechanix, Feb, 1931. IT IS a well known fact among experimenters that when a whirling gyroscope is set in an upright or inclined position it will not change unless some strong exterior force is applied. Due to this peculiar quality, which is known as the precessive effect, the gyroscope can be […]
Back in the early 1900’s a company named Caldwell made a snake-proof baby crib, they don’t make them like they used to folks… via BA.
While mucking about on the most excellent BEAM Wiki, I bumped into this fascinating proto-BEAM bot from 1912(!). I was certainly familiar with W. Grey Walter’s pioneering work in the 1940s, but not this much earlier light-seeking analog robot. Seleno, The Electric Dog
Every time there is a new technology, the makers figure out a way to cook food with it… Radio cooked toast, 1933. RADIO cooking is the latest stunt developed by broadcast engineers. If a hot lunch is wanted by the operators in a transmitting station, all they have to do is place their food between […]
