2020 New Random Pics

[Steve Carlton]

Henrique Alvim Corréa made illustrations for the 1898 novel The War of the Worlds in 1903.

25 more here: https://artvee.com/dl/martian-fighting-machine-hit-by-shell/

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The Unabomber’s cabin in FBI storage

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A photo of L. Sprague de Camp (left), Isaac Asimov (center) and Robert Heinlein (right) during WWII. Three of the biggest Science Fiction authors in the pulps. All three worked in the Philadelphia Naval Yards at the Naval Air Experimental Station.

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[GH85Carrera]

Illinois Automatic Computer (ILLIAC ) I, 1955
Image / ComputerHistory.org: https://www.computerhistory.org/collect.../catalog/102651955
Von Neumann Architecture: ILLIAC I was the first von Neumann architecture computer built and owned by an American university. This architecture became a blueprint for many other computers in the 1950s.
Twin Design: Unlike most computers of its era, both ILLIAC I and its twin, ORDVAC, were identical in design, ensuring software compatibility between them.
Computing Power: By 1956, ILLIAC I had more computing power than all computers at Bell Labs combined, a remarkable achievement for its time.
Scientific Applications: ILLIAC I was used for various scientific tasks, including calculating Sputnik’s orbit after its launch in 1957. It wasn’t just a data processing machine; it could handle complex operations on small amounts of information.
Place in History: ILLIAC I played a pivotal role in advancing computer science and paved the way for subsequent supercomputers.





The Confederacy's 'coal bomb,' manufactured by the Selma arsenal, was one of the sneakiest weapons of the Civil War. Only two or three exist. Painted black to resemble coal, the plan was to sneak it into a coal pile for Union steamships, where it would detonate upon being shoveled into the fire, exploding the boiler and crippling the ship.

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Growing up,
I thought there was going to be a lot more




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[GH85Carrera]

In 1913, John D. Rockefeller was worth $900 million, or 3% of the U.S. gross domestic product that year. His wealth is the modern equivalent of $418 billion. And in the time before income taxes.
In 1929, John D. Rockefeller gave a 5-cent coin to a child on his 84th birthday.

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[Dixie]

Florida, where a baby seat on your motorcycle isn't as odd as having a clothed, ATV riding, pet alligator.

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[A930Rocket]

Interesting double u joint.

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This image, captured by Dorothea Lange in October 1933 near Fresno, California, features bilingual employment signs in Spanish and English for employment at Hotchkiss Ranch. The signs attempt to entice workers with free rent, good houses, electric lights, and a school and store on the ranch. There were 15,000 acres in cultivation and 10,000 acres of that were cotton.




USAAF Boeing B-29 “waist gunner” watches for enemy fighters while on a bombing mission to Japan - June 1944
The B-29 waist gunners viewed their fields of fire through glass blisters, the .50-cal machine guns were mounted in external turrets and were remote controlled.
The gunners aimed by using an interior machine gun-like pedestal with handles to control an aiming crosshair. This pedestal was linked to the gun turrets via an analogue computer that took the crosshair aiming point as input and adjusted the turret guns' aiming point for target size and speed, wind velocity, and other characteristics.
LIFE Magazine Archives - Bernard Hoffman Photographer

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Unfortunately, that's just an artists rendition of what they think it might have looked like at some point in time.

This is what it really looks like today. Not really ANY obvious signs that it's there.


One of the clues that it's there...