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02-23-2012, 04:30 PM
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02-23-2012, 05:44 PM
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The fine art of piloting VTOL
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02-23-2012, 08:03 PM
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This is my grandmother back in the 20's. I love this picture. That car is great. Check out the farmer in the background working the field with horses.
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02-22-2012, 10:20 AM
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I don't really have any details. The J Boorer in question was a wheelwright and haulier. The photo was in (in a corner of) a magazine illustration for an article about that part of London (Woolwich). I found it while looking through a lot of my late father's papers this afternoon. Both my parents died in 2010 and I am now the custodian of a lot of family stuff including my father's family-history related research. If I had the time I'd really like to make a proper family album with pictures of the individuals, their parents and offspring arranged in order, and pictures of the property I have which can be identified as associated with specific people, and any stories or other information. Or do it online, probably at one of the genealogy websites so that other people can benefit from it. I have no children or nephews/nieces to pass this stuff physically onto, but am in touch with cousins' children to whom I will leave the stuff.
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02-24-2012, 12:31 AM
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yes wonderful picture.
I notice in the picture of the car that the wheels are wirewheels. and that each wheel has about 18 spokes supporting the car, so.. say 76 wires are enough to support the entire dynamic weight of the car. Wow.
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02-24-2012, 09:31 AM
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I'm no mechanical engineer, but I think there's some tensegrity action going on, where even the horizontal spokes are helping to support the weight of the car by holding the rim in a circular shape so the forces can be transferred down to the ground.
Maybe tensegrity is the wrong word to describe it, but it's a similar phenomenon, where all the parts of the system work together. |
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02-24-2012, 06:31 PM
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I had a minor epiphany about bicycle spokes recently.
The weight of the bike goes down the forks, to the hub of the wheel, and then [epiphany] is not supported from beneath by compression, but is suspended from the top of the wheel rim, by tension on the spokes. The rim then carries the weight down to the contact point with the ground, and all the other spokes are under tension to keep the rim from bulging and losing its circular shape.
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02-24-2012, 11:34 PM
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Is that a Ford?
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02-25-2012, 08:38 AM
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Yep. Model A. And it looks brand new to me. I assume it's a new car pose. According to Wikipedia, the Model A was sold from 1928 through 1931, so that narrows down the date of the photo a bit.
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02-25-2012, 08:55 AM
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02-25-2012, 10:12 AM
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02-25-2012, 11:49 AM
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She was probably a flapper. Or at least dressed like one.
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02-25-2012, 05:00 PM
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Very cool pic...
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02-26-2012, 04:16 PM
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"Objects in mirror are closer than they appear."
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