A Guide to Non-Birds - The Crane

 As an Engineer, this sort of stuff- purely mechanical contraptions - fascines me. I remember something like this on the harbour / pier at Cove Bay. That one was wrecked, but this looks OK.

Bonus - Huh.  ShowerDay. :-(

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Wilson's Widgets

 

Yes, it is Tedious Tuesday, but needed a new background for my PC, and this fitted my mood. From an undated slide.

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Lynn L Langworthy

 

I had always just presumed that Steam Engine and Traction Engine preservation was a peculiarly British thing - the preserve of gruff old Yorkshire men and retired whippet breeders. However, this box of slides showed that America has these interests as well. 

This engine seems to be called after Lynn L Lagworthy, of Alfred, New York. The notice at the bottom leads to  Williams Grove Steam Engine Association, which is still going ! (I presume that WGSEA = WGHSEA.

Bonus - Have you these Covid-19 Side Effects?

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Fort Randall Dam, July 1953

Yup.

Another damned Fort Randall Dam slide.

Damned fine civil engineering.



Bonus - USS Enterprise, with stabiliser technology. CFB

Proper Engineering

As an engineer (allegedly), this is what I like to see. Proper nuts and bolts engineering, and a load of motors, linkages and sprockets.  Bliss.

Bonus - Infinite Chocolate?

How It's Done

Damn. That's Huge

Americans at one of the huge dams like The Hoover Dam or The Coolidge Dam.   Which one, I neither know nor care.

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Music 2/5
Video 5/5