Leica Lens Disected. No wonder lenses are so expensive! Via Ufunk. Flynano. The Bone Yard. By Mark W. Danielson Why are all these airliners in the desert? In a word, they’re being preserved. Aircraft bone yards are a testament to the WWII B-24 bomber, Lady Be Good. You see, on April 4, 1943, the Lady Be Good and 24 other airplanes took off from Soluch Airstrip in Libya to bomb the port at Naples, Italy, but things didn’t go as planned. Strong winds and poor visibility forced the bombers to take off in small groups, and Lady was one of the last to depart. Fifteen years later, a British oil exploration team spotted aircraft wreckage in the desert and decided to investigate. Many years later, a surplus of commercial airliners led to civilian Bone Yards at Marana Airpark near Phoenix, Mojave, and the former George Air Force Base near Victorville, which is shown in the above photo.
Mothballed aircraft have served other purposes as well, such as law enforcement hijacking/hostage training, movie sets, and music video backdrops. Before the iPod, Before the Walkman, There Was the Mikiphone. April 20th, 2011 by Lambert Varias Today we have portable audio players like the iPod that play digital files on the go. Before that, we had CD players like the Discman, and before that we had cassette tape players like the Walkman. And before that? People had the Mikiphone, a portable phonograph that played 10″ vinyl records. Manufactured in Switzerland from 1924 to 1927, the Mikiphone had no batteries – you had to wind up its crank to power it. Check out the link to Core77 below for other primitive gadgets, like the first “camera phone” – a gramophone with a camera – and a portable electric phonograph.
[via Metro UK via Core77 via Dude Craft] Sliced Grandfather Clock: If You Need the Time But Don't Have the Space Crank Up the Roastie for That Perfect Slice of Toast. Hacker Typer. DIY: Un utilisateur Youtube fabrique soi-même sa lame cachée d’Assassin’s Creed. Wow! Model Factory Made With Lego Robots Moves 48 Items Per Minute (video. Power On/Off: Symbology Explained | Apartment Therapy Unplggd. Q: All my electronics and gadgets have variations of little circles and lines on the power switch. How do I tell which is actually ON and which is OFF? A: To be honest I never knew which direction was ON or OFF until this question was recently asked. I simply flipped the switch in the other direction without much thought. Whether it’s a toggle or a single push button, the little symbols on the buttons actually have meaning behind them that visually define what that button is supposed to do. A quick peek at Wikipedia (and double checked through the listed sources), The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is the group behind the standard that provides the following definitions: IEC 5007, the power on (line) symbol, appearing on a button or one end of a toggle switch indicates that the control places the equipment into a fully powered state.
It comes from the binary system (1 or | means on) The switch does not fully disconnect the device from its power supply.