Old Tech thread

[mosaix]

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Just love the size of the padlock.

 

[Ursa major]

It looks like a still** from silent comedy.




** - Apropos of nothing.... Was the guy arrested for making moonshine...

 

[Cthulhu.Science]

I was thinking along similar lines. In fact it seems so weird that I'd wonder if this is some sort of fake. I'd think that if you used such a thing you'd have to at least handcuff the prisoner. Even without a gun the guy could make life very dangerous for the officer.

The prisoner does appear to be looking right at the cops gun, doesn't he?

 

[dask]

 

[dask]

Just noticed the little oil can on the right. Sqweek Sqweek.

 

[Dave]

I just found this on Wikipedia. (Sorry but no better resolution picture is available.) It's from the cover of a LIFE magazine issue in 1963.

The magazine editor Hugo Gernsback demonstrating Television goggles. (He was a keen amateur radio enthusiast too.)

 

[Danny McG]

A spring loaded toy, I haven't seen one in over 50 years, so I reckon that makes it old technology...used for firing matchsticks at toy soldiers.

 

[Vertigo]

A spring loaded toy, I haven't seen one in over 50 years, so I reckon that makes it old technology...used for firing matchsticks at toy soldiers.

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Oh Lord! I used to have them. As I recall that lever could fairly give your finger a whack if it got in the way!

 

[Danny McG]

Oh Lord! I used to have them. As I recall that lever could fairly give your finger a whack if it got in the way!

Yeah, that's probably why they disappeared, 'elf n safety' nowadays would never allow such a thing, we were tougher kids back in the day!

 

[Cthulhu.Science]

A spring loaded toy, I haven't seen one in over 50 years, so I reckon that makes it old technology...used for firing matchsticks at toy soldiers.

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"You'll poke your eye out!"

 

[Pyan]

I had one, too - but I was always envious of my friend at school, who had one of these:

 

[Dave]

"You'll poke your eye out!"

That's exactly why we weren't allowed to have one. "But ******'s mum let's him have one!!!!"

I always felt hard done by, but at least I still have both my eyes.

 

[Venusian Broon]

When it came to knocking down you soldier wars I didn't have toy that fired matchsticks.

I had this:

You put white pellets/pills in the hole at the back of the saucer and turned the metal thing around - they would then be fired out the front. (and you could fill up the saucer with a good 3-4 shots.)

The poor bloody grunts didn't stand a chance. It was War of the Worlds.

Space ships versus WW2 infantry.

 

[scidata]

IBM was to straight laced for circular slide rules.

I used to work there.

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Back in mid seventies I was a trainee in a UK coalmine. In one area of older workings there was a row of lights giving off a strange blue glow.
As far as I recall each light had an enclosed turbine/dynamo that was powered by compressed air.
I remember some old collier saying they'd been operating since the fifties in that area.

I've googled and you can still get compressed air lamps but these ones are hand held for inspection work inside oil tanks etc, the ones I saw were large and permanently mounted.

Just another bit of forgotten technology. No doubt the manufacturer has long since gone - very little coalmining now

Back in mid seventies I was a trainee in a UK coalmine. In one area of older workings there was a row of lights giving off a strange blue glow.
As far as I recall each light had an enclosed turbine/dynamo that was powered by compressed air.
I remember some old collier saying they'd been operating since the fifties in that area.

I've googled and you can still get compressed air lamps but these ones are hand held for inspection work inside oil tanks etc, the ones I saw were large and permanently mounted.

Just another bit of forgotten technology. No doubt the manufacturer has long since gone - very little coalmining now

My Mancunian machinist grandfather gave me his slide rule. The rest is AI history
The picoXpert Story

 

[mosaix]

I had one, too - but I was always envious of my friend at school, who had one of these:

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I had one. I used to fire the little plastic shells over the back of the couch to land on our dog. The shells were so light he never even woke up.

 

[Ursa major]

The poor bloody grunts didn't stand a chance.

Are you sure that these grunts weren't redcoats...?

 

[Harpo]

 

[Parson]

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Sigh! And we all remember when those things were "the coolest ever!" --- Oh, to be young and not jaded.

 

[dask]

Few more guardrails please.

 

[Pyan]

Does a Supermarine Spitfire count as 'Old Tech'?