Post pictures of amazingly cool engineering

[Morningside]

Beyond Rational said:

Morningside said:

ZeeTacoe said:

Jonny671 said:

You can imagine it can't you

Imagine Mazdas drawing board of putting it in the car too..

surely they'd only need to look at a production NSU to see how to do it?

Beyond Rational said:

Mobile nuclear power station

you can't just leave us with that one picture.

Too right! Come on...More information.

Ok, ok

From the fascinating site english russia;

http://englishrussia.com/?p=2355#more-2355

There is an awful lot on that site that would fit in this thread.

Damn you for posting that link (shakefist). I spent most of last night reading it. Amazing (and scary) at the same time.

[Sixpackpert]

Muze ST said:

I knows its not aginast the thread titles buts this is a great idea and works great just its always has a problem every day.

Is that at Dow in Kings Lynn???

[BigBen]

Jdavis said:

Pesty said:

Falkirk wheel

just wiki'd this ... WOW!

Went to see this a few years back, very impressive to see it in action. Did not have time to do the boat trip up / down it but will next time

Ben

[whitechief]

The Galzigbahn lift, St Anton




Vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL-Hgj_y9C8

Edited by whitechief on Thursday 19th March 13:31

[whitechief]

Paddy_n_Murphy said:

whitechief said:

The Galzigbahn lift, St Anton


Vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL-Hgj_y9C8

Edited by whitechief on Thursday 19th March 13:31

yep utterley addictive - "oo- lookey here how that bit turns round here, and look there, incredible,"

That is until you get to the Mooserwirt...... and bang, just like that.

all is forgotten.

For a week.

Ah yes, the Mooserwirt, one of the craziest pubs I've been to (and I've visited a lot)

[twiglove]

benoli said:

rotating kiln furnace at a large cement works near me
(by the way, my photo !)

Interesting...I raise you the inauguaral first firing of the Kiln new installation in West Africa!!

[twiglove]

Or Maybe this !!

[shirt]

^^ i was going to berate the kiln pic, but you just saved it.

[twiglove]

shirt said:

^^ i was going to berate the kiln pic, but you just saved it.

Just to win some more points then...

[Shar2]

Always loved these babies. Great engineering on all sorts of levels.

[AstonZagato]

La Sagrada Familia is pretty amazing. I was always a bit "meh" when architects raved about it. Then I went and was very impressed.

One thing that really knocked me over was Gaudí's innovative use of "leaning columns" (that is, the columns are not at right angles to the floor and ceiling). But designing this is not straightforward. Gaudí therefore invented an extraordinary method for determining the correct angle for each of the columns. He made a small hanging model of the church, using string to represent the columns. Then he turned the model upside down and... gravity did the calculations.

Edited by AstonZagato on Thursday 19th March 18:20

[Invisible man]

AstonZagato said:

La Sagrada Familia is pretty amazing. I was always a bit "meh" when architects raved about it. Then I went and was very impressed.

One thing that really knocked me over was Gaudí's innovative use of "leaning columns" (that is, the columns are not at right angles to the floor and ceiling). But designing this is not straightforward. Gaudí therefore invented an extraordinary method for determining the correct angle for each of the columns. He made a small hanging model of the church, using string to represent the columns. Then he turned the model upside down and... gravity did the calculations.

Yup, bloody astonishing, can't believe the amount of graffiti in the stairwells though, I can see it made off limits soon because of it

Edited by Invisible man on Friday 20th March 16:34

[richierich37]

crofty1984 said:

richierich37 said:

mat205125 said:

What do you want to know? A normal Diff, or the various kinds of limited slip diffs.

does a ltd slip diff make both driving wheels spin at the same time or is that just a normal diff?????

A "normal" (open) differential will send the power to whatever wheel demands it. More goes to the wheel with the least resistance. This is fine in 99% of normal driving conditions.
In some conditions, either in snowy/icy conditions or when you're racing and one wheel has almost completely broken traction, it's not what you want. Do a "limited slip" differential will only send a certain percentage of the torque to any one wheel.

The best way to imagine it is you're parked on a muddy verge. One wheel is on the tarmac.
With an open differential, it's possible to send ALL the torque to one wheel, leaving you sat stationary with one wheel spinning happily away in the mud.
With an LSD, that one wheel can only recieve *plucks number out of air* 70% of the available torque, leaving 30% to the wheel on the tarmac to pull you along.

many thanks

[Hammerwerfer]

Invisible man said:

AstonZagato said:

La Sagrada Familia is pretty amazing. I was always a bit "meh" when architects raved about it. Then I went and was very impressed.

One thing that really knocked me over was Gaudí's innovative use of "leaning columns" (that is, the columns are not at right angles to the floor and ceiling). But designing this is not straightforward. Gaudí therefore invented an extraordinary method for determining the correct angle for each of the columns. He made a small hanging model of the church, using string to represent the columns. Then he turned the model upside down and... gravity did the calculations.

Yup, bloody astonishing, can't believe the amount of gravity in the stairwells though, I can see it made off limits soon because of it

I went up those stairwells. I wonder if anyone has fallen. Scary to say the least.

[jp19]

ok then

[bluetone]

OK so this is a vid link rather than a pic but stay with it; if you haven't seen this before, I promise you will be gobsmacked at the technology:

http://widgets.nbc.com/o/47f1317f105123ad/49930a9f...

[Flanders.]

bluetone said:

OK so this is a vid link rather than a pic but stay with it; if you haven't seen this before, I promise you will be gobsmacked at the technology:

http://widgets.nbc.com/o/47f1317f105123ad/49930a9f...

Thats really amazing. Also it's good that Jay has a understanding of how his car's works.

[bluetone]

Flanders. said:

Thats really amazing. Also it's good that Jay has a understanding of how his car's works.

Oh yes, Mr Leno definitely has petrol in his veins and doesn't mind getting his hands dirty.

[AJLintern]

Yes rapid prototyping is pretty cool - now there are machines that can laser sinter components directly into metal

[Nobody You Know]

A bump for this thread.

I was blowing up Russians on Battlefield in one of these earlier and remembered how much in awe' of them I am.

The Mil Mi-24 / Flying Tank / Satans Chariot / or Simply Hind

Insane Russian Cold War helicopter gunship, everyone should really read-up on it if you haven't already.






I always think it's the epitemy of the term "it's so ugly it's beautiful"