Old Tech thread

[Pyan]

How do you keep up with it while it's moving? Walk along bent double, or sort of waddle on your haunches? Or is there a small seat that hooks on behind, rather like a big lawnmower?

 

[Vertigo]

How do you keep up with it while it's moving? Walk along bent double, or sort of waddle on your haunches? Or is there a small seat that hooks on behind, rather like a big lawnmower?

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I expect/hope it went very slowly. But I suspect a shuffle would have been the order of the day.

 

[Ursa major]

Not sure how happy I'd be in combat having what looks like the fuel tank right by my head!

That'll be because you're not a petrolhead....

 

[psikeyhackr]

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Just program the Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics to use that thing.

 

[Pyan]

That'll be because you're not a petrolhead....

Unlike the chap with the powered roller skates, earlier in the thread!

 

[KiraAnn]

I saw an interesting bit of old tech in a Charlie Chan movie with Sydney Toler. It was a post-war movie, so between 1945 and 1947. There was a cafe that had a jukebox with a video camera; one entered the coins, and told the operator what song to play, who then loaded the single record on a player. I have not found anything like that while exercising my google-fu.

I did find the 1940's equivalent of "elevator music", where operators put on long-play records for customers. The music went out over dedicated phone lines, and the customer could then split that signal up to as many speakers as they wished.

 

[dask]

 

[Alex The G and T]

Doesn't she look like she's having fun?

 

[Dave]

Doesn't she look like she's having fun?

She looks scared to me.

Those bicycles have no brakes, and she's just seen a crossroads ahead, with the London to Dover coach running late, and there has been a prohibition of street sweepers ,so the horse droppings are piled high. Also, she was instructed to wear her best frock for some new kind of portrait to be taken with an optical instrument.

 

[Ursa major]

She's thinking (determinedly) of all the ways she might punish him once they get home.

 

[Wayne Mack]

So, it's a tandem bicycle because it has four wheels?

 

[Vince W]

No, because one rider is at the mercy of another.

 

[dask]

Crank start. Probably had to kick start their Harley too.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Doesn't she look like she's having fun?

Victorians always look so miserable in photographs. Just like their monarch it appears they were not amused. At any point in their lives.

 

[Astro Pen]

Interesting 300 year old clamping system

 

[Pyan]

 

[Ursa major]

That's the sort of unfortunate outcome that can arise when one seas something oar-inspiring.

 

[Pyan]

That's the sort of unfortunate outcome that can arise when one seas something oar-inspiring.

 

[farntfar]

Designed by a numb scull.

 

[Paul J. Menzies]

Designed by a numb scull.

Easy, Might start a row.