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[GH85Carrera]

May 13: in 1946, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted Southwestern Bell a license for radio-telephone service, which enabled those in St. Louis to be the first in the nation to make and receive phone calls in their car.
Covering a 75-mile radius of downtown calls to an auto had to be placed through a mobile operator at 2654 Locust. This was transferred over normal telephone lines to the office at 1010 Pine, where the call went out over VHF radio from the 250-Watt transmitter on the building's roof.
Service cost $15 a month, after a $25 installation fee. There was an additional charge per call, depending on time. As seen in this photo, necessary equipment took much of the trunk space. The first radiotelephone call was placed in St. Louis on Jun 17, 1946.











Yep, I refuse!

[GH85Carrera]

AMPEX = Alexander Matthew Poniatoff EXcellence.
1956: Ampex VRX-1000 First Commercial Video Recorder
Glad they got a bit smaller?

[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by masraum

I'm not sure what I think about monuments that have been rebuilt.

You mean like this?

[GH85Carrera]

The younger generation will not know what once sat on this shelf and they especially will not know what that slot underneath once held.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

lots of genius there.

The younger generation will not know what once sat on this shelf and they especially will not know what that slot underneath once held.

I'm over 50 and I have no idea what went there. It almost looks like something that would be in a church. If I had to guess, I'd say that it may have been a telephone nook with a spot for a telephone book underneath, but that's a total guess.

Yep, I guess so. I've never seen one in person.


What's the area underneath the slot for? More phone books?

[masraum]

[Zeke]

Tip out shelf.

RE Pressure wash. Don't post Photoshop that isn't funny.

[Racerbvd]

[GH85Carrera]

The "water brake" used on the first nuclear submarine prototype - built in the desert of Idaho. Usually you'd build a first-of-its-kind prototype in a spread-out fashion so that you could troubleshoot more easily, but Admiral Hyman G. Rickover insisted that everything that would go into a submarine hull be put into an actual hull section, which was mostly submerged in a tank to simulate minimum shielding. The propeller shaft turned a drum inside the water brake to simulate the load of a propeller on the power train. So great was the shaft horsepower that extra cooling had to be improvised when the plant was operated at full power. This plant provided training and research from 1953 until 1989.

[GH85Carrera]

It was not those two cars for sure!

[asphaltgambler]

That's sum purty stuff rite thar^^^^^^

[GH85Carrera]

July 1969. Testing the SSTV to NTSC video format converter at Honeysuckle Creek for Apollo 11. During the actual landing, the antenna at Parkes was used instead due to superior picture quality.
Because the camera was mounted upside down on the Lunar Module and was later removed and placed on a tripod right way up, 'The Toggle Switch' was used to flip the image as needed.


When traveling in a straight line one can cross from Belgium to France multiple times in a short distance.

[Steve Carlton]

[Hendog]

Europa mounted in 1967 Porsche 911S

[Steve Carlton]

“Just read chapter 3 and 4. I’ll see you in class at 10am, Mary Anne.”

[GH85Carrera]

American moonshiners were in desperate need of avoiding cops during the Prohibition era (1920-1933), and thus, these heifer-heels were born. They'd use these puppies to look like cows when traipsing through fields or across other terrain that might leave footprints for the authorities to track.




This is the Choluteca Bridge located in Choluteca, Honduras. Originally constructed in 1930, the bridge was rebuilt in 1996. ... Even though the bridge stood its ground, the storm caused the river to carve a completely new path which no longer ran under the bridge.


𝙊𝙝𝙞𝙤 𝘽𝙞𝙜 𝙁𝙤𝙤𝙩 𝙂𝙞𝙧𝙡
Fanny Mills was born in Pullborough, Sussex in 1860, to George Mills and Sarah Ansell. In 1861 the family were living in Mace Hill, in the village and her father was working as a grocer. She had two older siblings, Fred and Henry. In 1871 George was absent from the household. Sarah was head of the house, she is listed as a pauper (grocers wife). They have had two more children, Albert and Frances. Also living with the family was Sarah's father William and her brother Clement.
The family emigrated to America in June 1871. They arrived in New York and made there way to Ohio, where they settled in Perkins, Erie, Ohio. On the 1880 census her father was now working as a dairyman. One thing stands out on the record, that is, the fact it says 'Deformed feet' next to Fanny's name. She began to display symptoms of Milroy’s Disease, a condition which primarily affects women causes swelling in the lower limbs.
In 1886 Fanny married William Brown.
In 1899 the Hartlepool Northern DailyMail wrote, "The Big-Footed Woman - One of the most interesting cases of the rise of a freak from poverty to affluence is that of Fanny Mills, the big-footed woman, who was discovered by Frank Stone, the Boston showman. He heard of her through the postmaster Sandusky, Ohio, and after a little correspondence determined to go out and see if she was all that she was represented to be."
"The farm on which she was living with her parents was found to be the most miserable place imaginable, the house and building out of repair, the ground poor, and very thing indicating hard struggle for bare existence. The girl herself was half-clothed and fearfully thin and worn-looking. Her work was to milk the cows and then carry the milk for distance of five miles to the houses along the road. She carried two large pails slung on yoke across her shoulders, and with her huge feet the daily toil was severe that, coupled with miserable food, it had worn her almost to a skeleton."
"Mr. Stone took her to Boston on salary of £2O week, and billed her the big-footed woman from Chicago.” She created great sensation, and was a drawing card for a long time. When she arrived she had on her feet pair of boots that showed how primitive bad been her mode of life. They were made throughout of the tops of farmers' heavy cowhide boots, and had been manufactured at home cutting out of combined bootlegs a piece large enough for the sole, and then sewing more bootlegs over from side to side until the foot was covered. A shoe-dealer took these boots to place in his window as an advertisement, and in return made for her two of the finest pairs that he could turn out."
"Fanny’s salary was steadily increased as it became evident what drawing card she was, and when she left Mr Stone was to fill an engagement at £1OO a week. She was simple and careful in her manner of living, and in fact her living expenses were just about paid by what she made through the sale of her pictures. She went back to Sandusky as soon she had made enough money, bought the finest farm all that part the country, and is the entire support her parents."
Other accouts say she was known primarily as the "Ohio Big Foot Girl" and that she toured the East Coast with her sister-in-law Mary Brown who assisted her wherever she went. She toured between 1885 and 1892, and could sometimes earn $150 a week, the equivalent of $4000 today.
Fanny died on the 3rd of May 1899, aged 39.

[GH85Carrera]

This photo is a perfect example of how optical illusions can play tricks on our minds. At first glance, you see a little girl with extremely skinny legs. However, upon closer inspection, you realize that the illusion is caused by the angle and pattern of the dress she is wearing. Optical illusions like these remind us that our perception of reality is not always accurate. Her legs are normal, and she is holding a bag of what looks like popcorn.


FOSDIC (Film Optical Sensing Device for Input to Computers) Although the Census Bureau entered the computer age with the introduction of UNIVAC I in 1951, its data processing speed was hampered by the continued reliance upon punch cards. Transferring questionnaire data to punch cards that UNIVAC "read" and stored on magnetic tape was a time consuming process. To take advantage of UNIVAC's speed, National Bureau of Standards scientists and Census Bureau engineers began development of FOSDIC. Completed in 1954, the first generation of FOSDIC, using vacuum tubes, analog processing, and a flying-spot scanner "read" the position on microfilms of pencil-filled circles on questionnaires and translated the responses to computer code stored on magnetic computer tape. The Census Bureau first used FOSDIC to process a decennial census in 1960. Enumerators transferred data collected on questionnaires to a "FOSDIC-readable schedule" on which questionnaire responses were recorded as penciled-in circles, technicians used extremely sensitive photography equipment to convert these forms into microfilm. These shaded circles appeared as light dots on the microfilm. When the microfilm passed through the Census Bureau's FOSDIC machines, they read the placement of the bright marks on the microfilm and translated them into computer code.

[Sarc]

[GH85Carrera]

I think I see a problem there.

[onZedge]