2020 New Random Pics

[GH85Carrera]

in Iceland: The exact spot where the American and Eurasian tectonic plates almost meet. It's believed to be the only place in the world where 2 continents can be touched at the same time.

[GH85Carrera]

Downtown Edmond, Oklahoma in the 1950s. The building was originally a hospital and a movie theater. There is a great Italian restaurant in that building now. We love it.


STEARMAN STACKING!
You've just got to love this! We've all seen photos of crowded aircraft parks after WW-II in which fighters and bombers cover acres as they await scrapping. But after WW-II there were also many aircraft that had been built for other purposes such as training or transport, that had the potential to pursue post-war careers. Among these were C-47 / Dakota transports and T-6 / Harvard trainers. And then there were the Stearmans, many of which had only just begun their flying careers providing primary training for young wartime pilots, but which would go on to expand their careers into civilian training, banner-towing and crop-dusting. But in the first instance, when those WW-II training bases fell silent, the survivors of the 8,594 Model 75 Stearmans produced had to find some secure accommodation. In this remarkable photo, an estimated 150+ Stearmans have been very carefully 'racked and stacked', standing on their noses to minimise their footprint on the floor. Notice how the space between the upper and lower wings of each aircraft is occupied, right up to the inter-plane struts, by the wings of two adjacent aircraft, weaving them all together. Note also the necessary walkway allowances created to facilitate passage between these otherwise log-jammed biplanes! We are wondering if our own Classic Wings Stearman (now a 450 hp 3-seat rides plane) might be one of this group. We have not found her yet!!


This 1947 photo shows French civilians collecting abandoned pierced steel planking (PSP) for sale to a scrapyard. PSP planks could be linked together to create a temporary floor for vehicles, particularly aircraft, to drive over. Millions of tons of the stuff was made, and it can still be seen today being used as fences or barriers.

[crustychief]

Originally Posted by porsche930dude

Anybody know what these copper pins are for I have a can of them . They arnt nails they have no point.

Insulation pins. We use those on ships to hang insulation ( lagging) on the steel bulkheads ( walls)
https://www.google.com/search?q=insulation+pins

[porsche930dude]

Originally Posted by crustychief

Insulation pins. We use those on ships to hang insulation ( lagging) on the steel bulkheads ( walls)
https://www.google.com/search?q=insulation+pins

Good to know Thanks. Already threw them in the scrap bucket.

[GH85Carrera]

After serving aboard USS Enterprise, Naval aviator ENS James H. Howard resigned his commission in 1941 to join the Flying Tigers, achieving ace status. When the group disbanded, he was commissioned a captain in the U.S. Army Air Forces and scored another six victories, making him an ace in two operational theaters. His valiant flying while defending B-17s during a bombing run resulted in Howard becoming the only fighter pilot in Europe to be awarded the Medal of Honor. He is the definition of a bad ass hero.

[GH85Carrera]

We all know about Dodge cars but who knew that the Dodge brothers virtually built the first cars for ol' Henry (of Ford fame!)!
In 1897 the Dodge brothers, Horace and John, started building bicycles in Detroit, Michigan. They became very well known for design and innovation and caught the interest of a fella by the name of Ransome E. Olds. He was just getting into building the Curved Dash Oldsmobile automobile and he asked the brothers, who were already building auto parts for others, to build the power train for the new car line.
This was a success for all parties involved but it became a ,matter of great concern to another newcomer into the automobile field, Henry Ford. Henry was all hot to take over the Oldsmobile market share but to do that he needed a car to sell. His brainchild was the Model T but he had no parts. After much negotiation which ultimately cost him 10% of his new auto company the Dodge brothers began building car parts for Ford. These parts included almost everything it took to build the Model T.
About 1912 or so Henry decided that the brothers were becoming too powerful in the industry and tried to break them financially.
Remember the 10% share?
Henry lost in his attempt and ended up paying out Horace and John with enough money to start their own factory under the name of "Dodge Brothers".
Again their innovation proved itself when their first car off the line (they had actually invented the assembly line for Ford) had an all steel body, beating the competition by at least two decades. They also waxed the seat of Fords pants with a much better product than what Ford was selling. This included, but was not limited to, a 35 hp engine compared to the 20 hp of the Model T. For a time the Dodge Brothers automobile was at the top of the heap and everyone else was trying to play catch up.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by oldE

The other day, someone posted this:


It is a small maple syrup evaporator. The fan set into the wall is there to draw off the steam. Slightly more professional set ups use a hood and stack arrangement to carry the steam outside. My neighbor Rob is boiling this morning.



Pardon the zoomed in cel phone pic, but his sugar shack is two miles away.

Best
Les

We did ours last week as well.

[GH85Carrera]

Portland mine 400 foot level number 2 shaft – Goldfield, Colorado (Cripple Creek district) ca. 1900.






A brake cable to improve gas mileage!

[john70t]

[Steve Carlton]

Awesome sheetrock screws!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by john70t

[Steve Carlton]

I think there's a forklift in the garage.

[GH85Carrera]

**Testing one of the World's First Embedded Systems (1968)**
Raytheon test engineer *Robert Zagrodnick* running diagnostics on a pair of **Apollo Guidance Computers**ą (AGC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Instrumentation Laboratory (I-Lab)˛. 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 multitaskingł 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
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draper_Laboratory
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_multitasking
1. 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**


IIn 1949: The Netherlands first Volkswagen importer Ben Pon (left in photo) loaded a Beetle aboard the Holland America ship Westerdam at the port of Rotterdam on 8 January for export to the United States. The Westerdam (1946 – 1965) arrived in New York Harbor nine days later on January 17.
Bernardus "Ben" Pon, Sr. (April 27, 1904 – May 15, 1968) was a Dutch businessman and former racing car driver. On August 8, 1947, he founded Pon's Automobielhandel ("Pon's Car Dealership") in his home town of Amersfoort and became Volkswagen's general importer for the Netherlands. During their first year they received 51 Volkswagen Beetles from Wolfsburg. Pon’s was the first dealer outside of Germany to sell vehicles manufactured by Volkswagen.
In 1949, Pon shipped a Beetle to the United States with a plan to start a dealer network. He met with dealers up and down the East Coast, all of whom turned him down. He ended up selling the Volkswagen and its spare parts to pay for his room at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York and returned to VW headquarters in Germany. However, his car dealerships at home made him a multimillionaire and one of the richest people in the Netherlands.
Others followed Pon’s path, including New York car dealer Max Hoffman who was successful in establishing a sales network in the United States in 1950. By 1960, half a million Volkswagens had been sold in America and two years later there were one million Beetles in the country.
It has not been ascertained that Ben Pon was significantly involved in this success story, even though he was among the first to export the legendary Beetle into the U.S. which eventually went on to achieve sales in America of around 5 million between 1950 and 1979.


Texas, 1939...
Farmer's family in town, Saturday afternoon, San Augustine, Texas...
Source
Farm Security Administration Russell Lee photographer

[john70t]

Put down the phone and back slowly away from the contractor please.

[GH85Carrera]

Superior 400 gas station, Des Moines IA 1965








The Harwell CADET: World's First Fully Transistorized Computer.
Transistors began to appear in the early 1950's and the UK Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) at Harwell's Electronics Division immediately began to take an interest in their possibilities. In 1953 Sir John Cockcroft encouraged them to design and build a computer using transistors throughout. E.H.Cooke-Yarborough based the design around a 64K magnetic drum memory with multiple moving heads, it had a clock speed of 58 kHz and used 324 point-contact transistors and 76 junction transistors. completed in 1955, CADET went into regular service in an experimental form in August 1956 and was built from a few standardized designs of circuit boards which never got mounted into the planned desktop unit, so it was left in its breadboard form. It operated in regular use for about 4 years. The CADET acronym means (Transistor Electronic Digital Automatic Computer - in reverse)

[john70t]

North Brazil is closer to Canada

[GH85Carrera]

MONTANA BLACKFEET, 1938. Twelve adult men and other Blackfeet tribal members traveled in a dedicated Great Northern railcar to Hollywood to make a movie with child-star Shirley Temple (center), 20th Century Fox’s top moneymaker. The old people felt they were traveling to a strange country, so they prayed hard to be protected.
The Blackfeet brought their own ceremonial finery. Shirley Temple’s costume was made by an actor’s wife. Many Guns reported that on the train they wore ordinary store clothes. They put on buckskins and headdresses to look proud when they arrived in the strange land of Los Angeles, California. When they ate at the famed Brown Derby, Many Guns was certain that the restaurant had never before hosted old buffalo hunters and warriors.
For two months, the Blackfeet lived in tent houses on the Fox studio lot and usually ate at the commissary with other actors. Tom Many Guns, standing right, and Eddie Big Beaver, standing left, were the youngest adults and served as interpreters. At age 80 in 1976, 37 years after the movie was released, Many Guns reported that he was getting monthly residual payments of $191, about $850 in current value. You can view the colorized version of “Susannah Of The Mounties” on YouTube.
Adolf Hungrywolf documented stories from original participants.

[Seahawk]

My wife took this picture of me:



I would stay here!

[GH85Carrera]

[GH85Carrera]

At Barber Motorsports in Birmingham, AL.




Accident alll fixed.


The Shoshone are an Indigenous tribe, who originated in the western Great Basin and spread north and east into present-day Idaho and Wyoming. By 1500, some Eastern Shoshone had crossed the Rocky Mountains into the Great Plains.
Shoshone, 1880.