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[GH85Carrera]

German Submarine UC-5 being unloaded in NY October 1917.

[GH85Carrera]

1955 - Mickey Mantle showing off his personalized #7 Oklahoma license plate.




Hoover Dam Completion, 1936 - Last day before the Colorado River was released




Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, is the largest railroad classification yard in the world. Operated by Union Pacific Railroad, it spans over 2,850 acres and features a vast network of tracks and sorting facilities. Bailey Yard is crucial in efficiently operating Union Pacific's freight transportation network, serving as a hub for sorting, repairing, and organizing trains. The yard is a critical component of the railroad's infrastructure, handling a significant volume of freight traffic.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Missed one.

[GH85Carrera]

Hedy Lamarr








Funny AI image.

[Flatbutt1]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

^Worst case of target fixation ever.

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Testing one of the World's First Embedded Systems (1968)
Raytheon test engineer Robert Zagrodnick running diagnostics on a pair of Apollo Guidance Computers¹ (AGC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Instrumentation Laboratory (I-Lab)². The MIT designed 2.048 MHz 16-bit computer was 10 years ahead of its time and used integrated circuits to run a real-time multitasking³ operating system that enabled astronauts to control an Apollo spacecraft by typing simple commands on the DSKY keyboard interface in pairs of nouns and verbs. It had 2048 words of erasable magnetic-core memory and 36,864 words of read-only core rope memory⁴ with cycle time of 11.72 µs. It was designed to be fault-tolerant and was able to run several subprograms in priority order. Each of these processes was given a time slot to use the computer’s sparse resources. The computer interfaced to these onboard systems: DSKY(display and keyboard), IMU, Hand Controller, Command Module Rendezvous Radar, Lunar Module Landing Radar, Telemetry Receiver, Engine Command, and Reaction Control System.
References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draper_Laboratory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_multitasking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory

AGC Specifications

2,048 words of 15-bit ferrite core RAM
36,864 words of read-only memory
85,000 instructions/second
Dimensions: 61 cm × 32 cm × 17 cm
Weight: 31.8 kg
Power supply: 28 VDC, 55 W, 2.5 A

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History Fact: Beginning of the US Oil Industry
On January 10, 1901, a drilling derrick at Spindletop Hill near Beaumont, Texas, produced an enormous gusher of crude oil, coating the landscape for hundreds of feet and signaling the advent of the American oil industry.
The geyser was discovered at a depth of over 1,000 feet, flowed at an initial rate of approximately 100,000 barrels a day and took nine days to cap. Following the discovery, petroleum, which until that time had been used in the U.S. primarily as a lubricant and in kerosene for lamps, would become the main fuel source for new inventions such as cars and airplanes; coal-powered forms of transportation including ships and trains would also convert to the liquid fuel.
In the early 1890s, Texas businessman and amateur geologist Patillo Higgins became convinced there was a large pool of oil under a salt-dome formation south of Beaumont. He and several partners established the Gladys City Oil, Gas and Manufacturing Company and made several unsuccessful drilling attempts before Higgins left the company. In 1899, Higgins leased a tract of land at Spindletop to mining engineer Anthony Lucas. The Lucas gusher blew on January 10, 1901, and ushered in the liquid fuel age. Unfortunately for Higgins, he’d lost his ownership stake by that point.
Beaumont became a “black gold” boomtown, its population tripling in three months. The town filled up with oil workers, investors, merchants and con men (leading some people to dub it “Swindletop”). Within a year, there were more than 285 active wells at Spindletop and an estimated 500 oil and land companies operating in the area, including some that are major players today: Humble (now Exxon), the Texas Company (Texaco) and Magnolia Petroleum Company (Mobil).
Spindletop experienced a second boom starting in the mid-1920s when more oil was discovered at deeper depths. In the 1950s, Spindletop was mined for sulphur. Today, only a few oil wells still operate in the area.

[GH85Carrera]

Downtown Oklahoma City.


Robert Redford, Paul Newman and Newman’s daughter, Melissa, during production of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". Mexico (1969)

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[porsche930dude]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Luxury home then and now.

[GH85Carrera]

Here’s a cool pic of a way-point tree pinched from the Dakar page..


P-40s at the assembly plant. Each aircraft had a cost of $44,892 which equals out to about $648,181 a piece in today's money. There were 13,738 built between 1938-1944

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Inside a medieval Castle, Czech Republic

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[Dixie]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Where's the radiator?

[Robert Coats]

Photo Op from the We Are The World recording session. Can you name 'em all?

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U.S. NAVAL TORPEDO STATION.
U.S. Naval Torpedo Station, Alexandria, Virginia. Men and women work 24 hours a day turning weapons out. Each has its own engine, packs hundreds of pounds of explosives and costs $12,000. Shown: Fuel flasks are soldered by a workman for submarine type “tin fish”. Photographed received January 14, 1944. (National Museum of U.S. Navy)