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  You see, having the drives wheels run against a set of smaller wheels instead of directly contacting the rails creates a gearing effect which totally speeds up the locomotives, and if you could just invest in a few hundred of  then I could totally sell these efficient locomotives to the railroads and make us all rich! No, why on earth would you think this is a scam?  But the damndest thing is that two of these things were actually built.
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two forty posted:This is interesting, what was it called? Looks like something out of a married to the sea comic. They were built by the Holman Locomotive Company. I've no idea if they had any fancy name associated with them, but I'd be surprised if they didn't. In a less-scammy vein, railway engineers in the early 20th studied steam-powered ships and thought to themselves "Gosh, these steam turbines are pretty powerful and efficient in ships! I bet they would do wonders for a locomotive!" The results were failures across the board, but produced some pretty rad designs nonetheless. The German steam turbine locomotives were just    Whereas the American steam turbine locomotives look like they belong in some caricature of the 1950s:   I think there's a couple steam turbine locomotives preserved in Sweden, but all the super rad designs have long-since been scrapped.
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Crap British planes reminds me of the Vickers Type 161: This was built in 1931, with guns that pointed upwards so that the plane could attack enemy airplanes or airships from below. It was also a push-prop design, a biplane, had a really weird engine configuration and was 15 years behind the times in general.
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theironjef posted:Next on the docket:  Another aircraft maker from the time I like was Henschel, who in 1941 drew up plans for this neat little push-prop plane, the Henschel P.75:  Now, at this point a few of you may be thinking that you've seen these designs outside of WWII before. You may very well have, if you ever played Crimson Skies:  
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Tracula posted:That keyboard is pretty drat nice and it's something rather steampunk in design without looking like utter poo poo or as though it'd give you tetanus if you held it wrong.
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vxskud posted:So Gizmodo posted a somewhat tongue in cheek article about Sony's new high capacity magnetic tape, cue half my friends list earnestly posting about how cassette tapes are coming back. They're just trying to wind you up.
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Ensign Expendable posted:I learned to drive a manual. My instructor didn't believe in things like "designated instruction routes" so when I managed to stall less than half the time on the closed track he was allowed to drive me around, we were out into Moscow traffic. Fun times!
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