Spotted on a table of old instruments while wandering around London’s Portobello Road market two Sundays ago.
(Click for a larger view.)
I found the labelling amusing.
Any idea what this might be?
-cvj
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Spotted on a table of old instruments while wandering around London’s Portobello Road market two Sundays ago.
(Click for a larger view.)
I found the labelling amusing.
Any idea what this might be?
-cvj
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Hard to express my feelings about this news. Quincy Jones is a massive part of the foundations of my formative years (in so much music across genres and media). Inevitable passing, of course, but no less sad… Thanks for the music and inspiration Quincy!
Hard to express my feelings about this news. Quincy Jones is a massive part of the foundations of my formative years (in so much music across genres and media). Inevitable passing, of course, but no less sad… Thanks for the music and inspiration Quincy!
My first instinct was that it is a telescope 🙂
Not sure about electric motor but looks interested for sure.
cheers
Hi SMQ – thanks for your comments! (I restored the original one from the spam bin once you mentioned it was there…. so people have the link.)
Cheers!
-cvj
(seems my original comment is stuck in the spam queue due to a Wikipedia link…)
Looks like it’s a Barlow (or Barlow’s) Wheel: a simple kind of electric motor used mostly for demonstration purposes. The stellation of the wheel is just so that rotation can be easily observed; a simple disc would function as well.
–SMQ
Thank you!
-cvj
Portobello
Looks like it’s a Barlow Wheel: an early electric motor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barlow%27s_wheel
–SMQ