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Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer
At the center of a busy traffic interchange of Elephant and Castle sits a gleaming stainless steel box that has perplexed south Londoners for decades. Depending on which urban legend is favored... »
Unusual Monuments, Electrical Oddities, Architectural Oddities | Edited by Trevor and Dylan
See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years
“To collect, preserve, interpret, and display the artifacts and history of the information age.”
That is the mission of the American Computer Museum, founded by husband and wife George and... »
Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Inspired Inventions, Instruments of Science, Electrical Oddities, Retro-Tech | Edited by Trevor
The dead giantic radio tower of Liberia
For the implementation of the VLF or Very Low Frequency-Navigation System "OMEGA" in 1976, the US Coast Guard erected a 417 meter tall radio tower, which is taller than any man-made object... »
Electrical Oddities | Edited by Alpha
This battery powered bell has been ringing since 1840 and is one of the worlds longest running science experiments
For over 170 years, the Oxford Electric Bell (also known as the Clarendon Dry Pile) has been chiming almost continuously, the composition of its power source uncertain. Currently located in the... »
Instruments of Science, Electrical Oddities | Edited by re_nakaba
If you are looking for a used Russian battery, Chinese Ham Radio or other electronic oddities this Flea Market is a good place to start
We live in a largely disposable world, where objects are not made with service in mind. When your coffee grinder breaks, must people throw it out and get a new one for $15. For the most part, we... »
Electrical Oddities, Purveyors of Curiosities | Edited by M Rebekah Otto
A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world
The Schwebebahn Dresden, like the Schwebebahn Wuppertal, is a curious sort of cable car.
Rather than stand on rails like a normal cable car, it hangs on a single rail form above. The Schwebebahn... »
Electrical Oddities, Retro-Tech | Edited by Alpha
10,000 mirrors concentrate the sun's rays to generate power
As far as energy sources go, focused solar heat is ancient. In ancient Greece, glass vases were filled with water to create a "burning glass" and as the Greeks got better at creating lenses,... »
Instruments of Science, Electrical Oddities, Optical Oddities | Edited by
Location of the most powerful laser in the world, and the potential birthplace of tiny stars
The government website for the National Ignition Facility has a curious recipe on it. It reads as such:
1.Take a hollow, spherical plastic capsule about two millimeters in diameter (about the... »
Strange Science, Instruments of Science, Electrical Oddities | Edited by Dylan
