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[GH85Carrera]

[craigster59]

Carol Burnett at Cypress Gardens in the 60's

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Looks like it's got a cold and needs a decongestant.

[GH85Carrera]

Newcastle Castle, UK - 1895 To 2022

[GH85Carrera]

I think the tires go on the bottom..works better that way! Impressive cab strength.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally established in 1906 with a focus on automobile manufacturing, Rolls-Royce transitioned into aircraft engine design and production at the onset of World War I in 1914. Drawing from its expertise in high-output, liquid-cooled engines from the 1920s and '30s, which it played a pioneering role in developing, Rolls-Royce embarked on the creation of the renowned Merlin engine in 1933. Evolving from the successful Kestrel design, the Merlin became the powerhouse behind numerous iconic aircraft of World War II, including the Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire, and North American P-51.

Renowned for its exceptional power-to-weight ratio, the Merlin outperformed its contemporaries, making it one of the most formidable engines of World War II. With over 58,000 units produced under license by the Packard Motor Car Company and Continental Aircraft in the United States, many Merlins were shipped to England, while others found their way into American aircraft like the Curtiss P-40 and various models of the P-51 Mustang. The Packard-built Merlin, like the one described, propelled several iterations of the North American F-6 and P-51 Mustang.








T80 1958

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

$.50! No wonder nobody uses them except for illicit activities.

[GH85Carrera]

Family on relief living in a shanty on a city dump. Herrin, Illinois. c.1939. Photographer, Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985. Photo source: The Library of Congress.

[Steve Carlton]

Some of the most valuable ones were prototypes or never sold retail.

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g25616442/rarest-most-valuable-mattel-hot-wheels/

[GH85Carrera]

1923. A woman uses banknotes to light her stove during hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic (Germany).

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Need more info.

[oldE]

VW W10 engine. They were playing around with variations of the VR concept about 20 years ago.

One source claims a complete w 10 engine found its way into a BMW 5 series as a test car.

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[GH85Carrera]

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[GH85Carrera]

Texas, 1913...
Photographer's Caption
Four year old cotton picker who picks fifteen pounds a day regularly and seven year old who picks fifty pounds a day. They live in wagons. Moving about from farm to farm. Location: McKinney [vicinity], Texas...
Source
National Child Labor Committee Lewis Hine photographer


University of Arizona engineering student operating an IBM 650 computer¹. The machine was installed at the University's Engineering Experiment Station in 1957 to solve research problems submitted by the UA Numerical Analysis Lab, as well as government and private businesses. The 2000 vacuum tube IBM 650 Magnetic Drum² Data-Processing Machine was an early digital computer produced by IBM in 1954, the world's first mass produced computer, selling 2000 systems, highly popular in universities where a generation of students first learned programming. This 13 kW machine was a two-address, ten-digit bi-quinary³ coded decimal computer (both data and addresses were decimal), running at 125 kHz with memory on a 4000 word magnetic drum rotating at 12,500 rpm, taking 27.6 ms per instruction resulting in an average speed of 40 instructions per second, each word was a signed 10-digit number or five characters. She programmed it using IBM's Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program⁴ (SOAP II), an assembler language developed by Stan Poley at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. SOAP II is called "Optimal" (or "Optimum") because it attempts to store generated instructions on the spinning storage drum to minimize the access time from one instruction to the next.


Michel Talbot
Inside the IBM 650. Performance-wise it could do 78,000 additions or 5,000 multiplications per minute, and can make over 2,000 logical selections per second. The average access time for data on the 12500 rpm drum was 2.4 ms. On the magnetic drum, the two-out-of-five code representation is used [0,1,2,3,6] where (0=01100) 1=11000 2=10100, 3=10010, 4=01010 5=00110 6=10001 7=01001 8=00101 9=00011.

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Oh my lord, a flat head Ford!

[GH85Carrera]

The IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine¹ was IBM’s first commercial scientific computer, here being assembled in Poughkeepsie, New York at a rate of one per month (July, 1953). It was also known as the Defense Calculator while in development. IBMs first series production mainframe computer was based on the IAS machine² at Princeton and it competed with Remington Rand's UNIVAC 1103 in the scientific computation market. This 36-bit single-address 1 MHz computer used 4000 vacuum tubes for its logic circuitry and electrostatic storage, consisting of 72 Williams tubes³ giving a total memory of 2048 words. For secondary storage, it used the 200,000 word IBM 726 magnetic tape unit⁴, the world's first tape machine with vacuum columns and a 72-track magnetic drum⁵ with 8192 word capacity. Nineteen IBM 701 EDPM systems were installed. Eight went to aircraft companies like Boeing. At the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, having an IBM 701 meant that scientists could run nuclear explosives computations faster. Later in 1953, John Backus invents Speedcode⁶ for the 701 in order to support computation with floating-point numbers, it was the first high-level programming language created for an IBM computer. In 1954, he later developed the FORTRAN language⁷ (a FORmula TRANslating system) on the 701's successor the core memory based IBM 704 computer.


Photograph of logging crew carrying a log by hand at the J. P. Yates property. There are thirty-four men on the...Obion County, Tennessee, 1910.

[GH85Carrera]

ARKANSAS-
The French settlers initially called the post Aux Arcs ("at the home of the Arkansas," as Arkansea was the Algonquian name for the Quapaw used by the Illinois and related tribes). The first structures erected at the site were a simple wooden house and fence. The small settlement was the first permanent French holding west of the Mississippi and the first European settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley. There the French conducted the first documented Christian services in Arkansas.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Hey, look, it's a...



that was trying to be

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