alexr
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Post by alexr on Jul 17, 2022 14:49:40 GMT
Out and about in town yesterday and wondered how the iconic image of one of last century's great technoogical innovations (the telephone and associated box) would look when not in red. 
Mono london phone box by AlexR!, on Flickr |
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Post by hmca on Jul 19, 2022 19:48:56 GMT
Seems this fishing yacht has some sophisticated technology of which I know nothing about.  |
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Post by tonyw on Jul 22, 2022 21:15:39 GMT
Wonder if that classic phone box that Alex found still works? It does work well in black and white though and neatly offset by the London Eye.
That's some serious technology on that fishing boat Helen - radar, satellite positioning, fish finders - you wouldn't get lost with all that technology and in B&W it stands out well against the dark ocean.
Tony
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Post by tonyw on Jul 24, 2022 23:24:37 GMT
More old technology - one of the control panels inside what I recall was an Avro Shackleton ca 1950's . Original was taken a while ago (with old camera technology) and was rather noisy and not very sharp. Topaz helped a bit to clean it up before converting to B&W. 
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Post by tonyw on Aug 2, 2022 23:28:10 GMT
One more - this could be one of those "what's that technology doing in the middle of nowhere" pics but in fact it's a solar powered antenna array for tracking bird migration - any birds having a transmitter tag that fly over get detected with every bird having a unique tag so they can be tracked. There are quite a few stations around but it took some digging to find out what it was being used for - see Motus
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Post by VickiD on Aug 3, 2022 18:29:55 GMT
Wanted to add one more image to this topic. This is from a visit to the New York City Transit Museum in Brooklyn. It's an old subway control panel. The museum was fascinating, with subway cars through the years that you could enter and sit in... www.nytransitmuseum.org/visit/ |
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Post by photomono on Aug 8, 2022 14:44:16 GMT
VickiD – On your visit to the Transit Museum, you would have seen at least one subway car (the R-11, I think) built by the Budd Company of Philadelphia. My father would have been involved in the construction of this car. When I was growing up in the 1950s he was superintendent of assembly for the Budd Co.' s railcar division. Budd was the pioneer in stainless steel railcars, starting in 1934 with the Burlington Zephyr (Dad was electrical foreman then), the world's first diesel-powered train (see the photo). The Zephyr set speed records and set a new standard for passenger travel. It was definitely high-tech for its time. 
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VickiD
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Post by VickiD on Aug 31, 2022 2:08:11 GMT
VickiD – On your visit to the Transit Museum, you would have seen at least one subway car (the R-11, I think) built by the Budd Company of Philadelphia. My father would have been involved in the construction of this car. Don, I'm sure at least one of the cars was built by the Budd Company. Thanks so much for the history lesson...so glad you had a connection to what was an enjoyable trip for me! |
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