Old Tech thread

[Pyan]

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Pretty sure this one will be fake. I'm almost 100% sure PTSD and ADD are terms that were not used back then and probably not OCD.

The really sad thing is that Walter Freeman MD was a real person, and he possibly carried out as many as 4,000 lobotomies on patients as young as 4, most of which were not carried out in hospitals or surgeries.

[Freeman] used a mallet to tap an orbitoclast (a slender rod shaped like an icepick) through the orbital roof. Following penetration of the orbital roof, Freeman would sweep the orbitoclast laterally to obliterate frontal lobe tissue. Additionally, he was able to perform the procedure in an office setting because he anesthetized patients with a portable electroshock machine.

Walter Jackson Freeman II - Wikipedia

 

[Pyan]

 

[Vertigo]

Me, I'll stick to tea. People from the 1860's would still understand how I make my tea (apart from operating my multi-temperature kettle!).

 

[Wayne Mack]

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Where's the Vietnamese coffee maker?

There are essentially three variations of coffee maker:

• Hot water poured over coffee grounds
• Hot water forced through coffee grounds under pressure
• Grounds steeped in cold water

 

[Vladd67]

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They are a bit out with the 1860s coffee pot, that's a moka lot invented by Luigi Do Ponti in 1933 the patent was sold to Alfonso Bialetti and coffee brewing history was made.

 

[Ursa major]

apart from operating my multi-temperature kettle

All kettles are, or have been, multi-temperature: their part in making tea involves turning lower-temperature water into higher-temperature water.

 

[Pyan]

Here's the Illetta in all it's '30s glory (5th from left, above). Talk about bells and whistles - it looks as if it could propel a small steam-launch...

 

[dask]

Is that an espresso machine? Looks like Jack Kirby designed it.

 

[Snicklefritz]

 

[dask]

Unfortunately I think the technology has "improved" since then.

 

[Pyan]

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To be fair, that's not the original definition of a metre.

The metre was initially defined, between 1792 and 1799 as one ten-millionth of the distance on the Earth's surface from the north pole to the equator, on a line passing through Paris.

which is easily understood. It's only that convoluted description now because the old measurement was deemed not to be accurate enough.

metre (m)

 

[Dave]

Unfortunately I think the technology has "improved" since then.

My father used to tell of a childhood memory he had from just following WWII. An uncle of his (who died young) had taken him out to the seaside for the day (It was probably to Tynemouth or Cullercoats Bay) and he asked what some things were that he could see out at sea. So, the uncle took him out in a small boat to see what they were. When he got home again, his mother went absolutely ballistic because the coast was still mined at that time.

 

[dask]

Hoping dental technology has improved.

 

[Pyan]

because the coast was still mined at that time.

I had to go back and read this three times, before realising it said “mined”, not “mine”…

 

[farntfar]

Oh well. Never mined.

 

[Ursa major]

Hoping dental technology has improved.

Even as something staged as a single image (rather than a still from a filmed sequence), that looks more than a bit dangerous for the child.

 

[Cthulhu.Science]

A303 Near Hampshire, England

 

[Toby Frost]

I knew squids were clever, but I had no idea that they built roads!

 

[Ursa major]

I knew squids were clever, but I had no idea that they built roads!

At least they have arms... which is more than one can say about the deer.

 

[Wayne Mack]

I knew squids were clever, but I had no idea that they built roads!

Haven't you heard of cephalopaths?