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[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

That's amazing. My boy Oscar could have looked a lot like that when he was younger and and much darker. Just would have needed to let his hair grow long and comb it back. That would have been fun. Now he's 12 and almost deaf. Still a rascal, though.

[GH85Carrera]

MANIAC - 1947
Mrs. Lois Cook-Leurgan examines the main arithmetic unit of the MANIAC (Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical Integrator And Computer). The computer played an important part in thermonuclear calculations at the University of California's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico. Ca. 1947-1972.


Great welding!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

[blucille]

800 pages and still going strong

[GH85Carrera]

[GH85Carrera]

A machinist working on a Space Shuttle main engine injector in 1977

[Racerbvd]

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[craigster59]

[red 928]

Fawn Liebowitz

[red 928]

[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by red 928

Fawn Liebowitz

RIP Fawn. Toga party!

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[GH85Carrera]

Brian (hipster hair) Lohnes
The idea of a 1.5L V16 seems hilarious by modern racing standards, especially to us in the land of BangShift where 900-cube V8s are prowling drag strips. That being said, in the world of Formula One racing back in the early 1950s engine designers had a choice. They could design a 4.5L naturally aspirated engine or a 1.5L blower motor.
BRM (British Racing Motors) decided to go the 1.5L route with their V16. It sported a comical 1.95-inch bore and 1.9-inch stroke. It was capable of 12,000 rpm and when equipped with a Rolls-Royce two stage centrifugal blower the engine made 600hp. Reportedly that Rolls blower was forcing 82 pounds of boost through the engine!
Interestingly, the engine featured two valves per cylinder. We’re guessing the tiny bore may have been a factor in that. These valves make Buick Nailhead valves look massive! How about 1.25in on the intake and 1.09in on the exhaust?
It’s no wonder why Formula One cars were revered so much back in this era. An engine like this in a custom racing chassis was the space shuttle of the day.
The payoff to this history lesson is the video below. It’s a bunch of static photos strung together, but the soundtrack is freaking magical. It’s audio of a BRM V16 powered Formula One car making laps. It is auditory gearhead porno. Who knew 1.5L could sound this good?!








Oklahoma City Bricktown area.


Downtown Oklahoma City

[GH85Carrera]

Cadillac V16








Clearest image ever taken of Mercury



Harley-Davidson model LR-64 rocket engine, built for the US Navy to power unmanned target drones. This deceptively small (only 21" long) liquid fueled rocket engine was capable of pushing the AQM-37 Jayhawk target drone to which it was attached along at supersonic speeds. One high-performance variant of the drone managed to hit Mach 4.7 during testing! That's absolutely booking it when you consider that Lockheed's (manned) SR-71 Blackbird was "only" able to do about Mach 3.5 flat-out.
This engine was originally designed by Rocketdyne, but the very same bar-and-shield company known more for its motorcycles than rocket engine expertise also had a hand in production. The rocket engines were built during Harley-Davidson's AMF-ownership years, with rocket engines and complete motorcycles both leaving HD's York, PA plant side by side. Over 5000 engines in total were built, although obviously they were intended to be (mostly) disposable, so many didn't survive.
There are a couple of these engines at the Wheels Through Time museum in Maggie Valley, NC. They don't look like much sitting still in a glass case, but in this instance, looks can be deceiving. These particular hogs, can-in fact, actually fly!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

I went to USF in Tampa, and occasionally the guys would want to go to Ryans on a Sunday (I think they had a cheap deal). I always felt sick after eating there.

Also used to eat here and at the same time there was a very similar place named "Hookers"


In college used to get pizza delivered to the dorms. $4.99 for a large one topping pizza delivered. I still remember the phone number, 977-2000.



And before Gumby's hit the scene, we used to order "2forU" which was also $4.99 delivered for 2 small one topping pizzas. I don't remember their number.

[GH85Carrera]

No more Taco Bell!


The daughter of a steel worker drinking water in the family's kitchen. 1940s.






Life before CNC's .

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Poor kids these days. Sorry, our comms are down, cash only. Lots of cards these days are doing away with the embossing, too.

[GH85Carrera]

My debit card and two credit cards have no embossing. I do carry cash however.












The flight engineer's station on board a Convair B-36 Peacemaker.

[GH85Carrera]

[GH85Carrera]

View inside of the laboratory for examination of magnetic heads at Wolfgang Bogen GmbH in Berlin - 1968


Did you know there is a Theorem called "The Sheldon Cooper's Theorem"
During episode 73 of the series, Sheldon explains his theory about the best number: 73. Why? Why? Because it is the twenty-first prime number, inverting its numbers we get 37 (the prime number 12) and inverting it again we get 21 (the product of numbers 7 and 3). Unbelievable isn't it?
Experts in number theory, like Pomerance from the University of Dartmouth, were inspired by this episode to dig deeper. After extensive investigation, they concluded that 73 is the only prime number that meets these characteristics, at least so far.


Demonstrator and computer trainer Andrina Wood at the console of the £60,000 vacuum tube based machine called the BTM 1202 HEC "Hollerith Electronic Computer" manufactured by ICT (International Computers & Tabulators Ltd) formerly the British Tabulating Machine Co., Business Efficiency Fair September 5, 1958. The 1202 used the BTM Rolling Total Tabulator and associated summary punch for its peripherals (Card reader, punch, printer). The physical componentry of the HEC machine (as opposed to the internal logic) was cobbled together from technology first developed for the BTM 542 and 550 calculators and eventually the 555 computer. The programs for the work being demonstrated were written entirely by Miss Wood before her departure around the world on a BTM promo tour, an early electronic computer expert supervising training of local staff. Computers in the 1950s where far from user friendly, and because of this, computer operators were usually programmers as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith_Electronic_Computer