2020 New Random Pics

[A930Rocket]

Here’s an interesting solution to a problem I’ve run into before.

[GH85Carrera]

In January 1928, 3 television sets were installed by GE in homes in New York, to demonstrate the first home television receiver.
The picture was 1.5 inches long by 1 inch wide and 24 lines at 16 frames per second.




Wait, she has to wait until she is 169 years old??

[A930Rocket]

[GH85Carrera]

[Steve Carlton]

The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

[masraum]

Nathan Pyle puts out a cartoon on the web and a show, I think, both called Strange Planet. I think it's pretty funny. Sometimes he just posts random statements.

[GH85Carrera]

[john70t]

[Bill Douglas]

[GH85Carrera]

Keith Emerson playing the EMMS (Emerson Moog Modular System) in 1974.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

LOL, I LOVE those top two. I'll be sending the top one to the kids to use on the grandkids.

WTF is going on in the bottom photo? Is that an HVAC vent that has been routed out through the roof to be routed to the roof of an addition or porch?

[GH85Carrera]

[chrismorse]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

I use this as an avatar sometimes.

I was about 5, (now 77), the night light bulb in the baseboard receptacle had failed, so i replaced it with a snail, thinking the shell would glow nicely.

Well, the sparks and sizzeling, popped the fuse, scared the peewadding out of me and my sister and we ran into our parent's bed, crying.

Kinda ruined the snail's day too.

Spent 35 years as a general contractor, doing a lot of electrical work, but, no more snails.
chris

[masraum]

Originally Posted by chrismorse

I was about 5, (now 77), the night light bulb in the baseboard receptacle had failed, so i replaced it with a snail, thinking the shell would glow nicely.

Well, the sparks and sizzeling, popped the fuse, scared the peewadding out of me and my sister and we ran into our parent's bed, crying.

Kinda ruined the snail's day too.

Spent 35 years as a general contractor, doing a lot of electrical work, but, no more snails.
chris

I must have been about 4 when I "plugged" a pair of tweezers into an outlet. No electric shock, but the immediate lights out condition scared me.

Snail as a bulb, LOL!

[Crowbob]

Snailbulb. Quite the concept. One small step or a giant leap beyond glowworm, depending on how your brain works.

[GH85Carrera]

Loading ore wagons at a Boulder County, Colorado mine in 1891.




“Three Alaska native men outside native houses.” Circa 1880s/1890s.
The Huntington Digital Library.


Mescalero Apache Mountain Spirit Dancers, New Mexico (1899)


Stagecoach in Dolores, Colorado. Taken between 1882 and 1900.
Denver Public Library Digital Collections.

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[GH85Carrera]

Photographed by Carleton E. Watkins, the Sierra Nevada Hoisting Works in Virginia City shows the scale of mining on the Comstock Lode during the 1870s. The stacks of timber and heavy framing reflect how much wood was needed to build hoists, headframes, and underground supports. Every beam had a purpose, keeping shafts open and equipment working as ore was brought to the surface. Images like this document the physical demands of deep hard rock mining and the materials required to keep operations running day after day.
Image courtesy of the University of Nevada, Reno, Special Collections.

[A930Rocket]

[GH85Carrera]

The prize-winning coiffures in a contest in Munich, Germany on May 1, 1964. They were designed for evening wear and hairdressers said anyone with a little time can copy them