A Little More Web Kipple
Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements is a lovely online compendium of Henry T. Brown’s classic technical reference Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements. The classic illustrations (taken from a 1906 edition of the text) are just wonderful – as are the modern animated sequences that show the motions in question. My current favourite is No. 92 – better known to most as the mechanism used to drive a steam locomotive!
Another aide-memoire so that I have the link kicking around…
There used to be a somewhat famous ThinkGeek teeshirt called ‘Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script’ that, even now, gets periodically referenced on the more tech-ish end of the internet. With ThinkGeek now lost to the mists of time, it’s not as easy to Google for as it used to be.
Sadly lost to the mists of time the Wayback Machine, here’s NVIDIA’s recreation of the Apollo 11 moonwalk – complete with accurate, conspiracy-busting lighting!
So, in a moment of extreme nerdiness whilst watching the 28 Years Later trailer, I wondered if the abandoned train featured in a shot was just a product of the arts department or if it actually was a real locomotive.
