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Title: Elaborate Mechanisms
Post by: Penderic on March 30, 2016, 07:59:20 AM

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Historic and Innovative Mechanisms! Yes, I like em.  :bike-037:

Here's one marvel for you like minded: from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition Extravagant Inventions, the Roentgens' Berlin Secretary Cabinet, the pinnacle of the hi-tech communication devices of its time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKikHxKeodA

Shows the ingenious workings, custom craftsmanship, and the timeless fascination with automatic devices.

Title: Re: Elaborate Mechanisms
Post by: rocker59 on March 30, 2016, 08:12:12 AM

Antikythera Mechanism rates right up there.


(http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx/news/hires/2014/findcluestoa.jpg)

(http://buzzworthy.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/mechanism.jpg)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

Title: Re: Elaborate Mechanisms
Post by: Penderic on March 30, 2016, 08:15:16 AM

Amazing!

Title: Re: Elaborate Mechanisms
Post by: leafman60 on March 30, 2016, 11:55:20 AM

Quote from: rocker59 on March 30, 2016, 08:12:12 AM

Antikythera Mechanism rates right up there.


(http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx/news/hires/2014/findcluestoa.jpg)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

2200 year old computer!?  Maybe all those shows about ancient visitors from outer space ARE correct!

Title: Re: Elaborate Mechanisms
Post by: Daniel Kalal on March 30, 2016, 12:00:29 PM

I took this shot in the London Science Museum.  The Babbage "difference engine" is just a jaw-dropping thing (and this is just a small part of what it would have been).

(http://www.dankalal.net/2003trip7/photo533.JPG)

Title: Re: Elaborate Mechanisms
Post by: acogoff on March 30, 2016, 12:44:35 PM

     The Bristol sleeve valve engine as used in their very successful Beaufighter and others has always fascinated me.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vrvep_YOio