janice6 Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Just now, pipedreams said: Russo-Finnish "Winter War" of 1939-1940. The Finns did well for themselves. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 CAVALRY TROOPER 1868 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pipedreams Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 An automobile arriving from the eastern sector of Berlin is halted by West Berlin police in 1953 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pipedreams Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Times Square, NYC - 1932 Line for coffee and a sandwich. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 (edited) 21 hours ago, pipedreams said: that's one hell of a lot of firepower! Edited December 5, 2019 by janice6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 2 hours ago, pipedreams said: Times Square, NYC - 1932 Line for coffee and a sandwich. The pitfall of city life. When things go bad, you have a problem living off the land. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardlyAble2 Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 North Dakota..1928 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 On 11/23/2019 at 6:56 AM, pipedreams said: Now that I see that post, this was one of the first things I was taught in elementary school. Emphatically! How to treat a book well! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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janice6 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Eric said: Tubes sure made things big. My receiver on my minesweeper was state of the art for the Navy in 1958. The tubes were glass about 5/16 of an inch in diameter and maybe 2 inches long with wire leads out of the glass envelope. This was about the most compact tube receiver available at the time. It covered 500 KHz to 30 Mhz in one continuous microfilm dial projected onto a frosted glass face on the panel. 10 Khz markers were about 1/8 inch apart. It was about the size factor of the Collins KWM series of later on. It was in a case that was firmly bolted to a steel desk which was also bolted to the ship deck. When at sea, if you zero beat a cw signal, it would slowly swing from zero beat to about 200 Hz and back again as the ship rolled in the waves or groundswells. The stress on the ship actually twisted the receiver mounting very slightly, causing the variation in zero beat. Just late night ramblings. As long as I started, the Trransmitter was capable of 1 Kilo Watt output but set to 125 Watts for shipboard use. I learned the design of the transmitter while it was being installed and when we went to sea, ours put out 1 KW from a 4-400 Tube final. With a non-Navy antenna, I could communicate around the world from anywhere. The transmitter was a monstrosity. It was tubes. It used harmonic addition and multiplication to achieve 1 MHz to 30 MHz in 10 Hz steps. Yes, you read that right. It had a digital dial and the variable frequency oscillator was a rack panel about 20 inches high and filled with small chassis harmonic generators and multipliers. It all started with a 100 KHz crystal oscillator. No variable frequency oscillators at all. It was a math nightmare. It took me a while to understand the design. It was a last effort for digital tuning using analog systems. Edited December 5, 2019 by janice6 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy P Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 On 11/27/2019 at 11:27 PM, pipedreams said: Is that a bear or a dog? It's a man. I do not recall his name but it is a man. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 1 hour ago, Andy P said: It's a man. I do not recall his name but it is a man. He does have a nice dog though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M&P15T Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 On 11/27/2019 at 9:02 AM, pipedreams said: Two well-dressed gentlemen pose at the St. Augustine City Gate about 1900. Wearing a suit in Florida heat & humidity. Jeeeeeze, but people must have stunk back then. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 2 hours ago, M&P15T said: Wearing a suit in Florida heat & humidity. Jeeeeeze, but people must have stunk back then. I believe I read that they also thought that bathing too often was injurious to their health. "...Today we place high value on personal hygiene but back in the day people could go from cradle to grave without ever immersing themselves in water. Many people believed that bathing was unhealthy and that soaking in water, especially hot water, would let disease enter the body. Even if you did decide to take a bath, you would not even have contemplated taking off your clothes – a habit that remained right through to the end of the 19th century!...", https://listverse.com/2012/10/22/10-revolting-facts-about-the-18th-century/ 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 21 hours ago, pipedreams said: US TROOPS LUZON 1899 Is that Teddy Roosevelt? . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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janice6 Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 On 12/5/2019 at 5:09 PM, pipedreams said: Must have already gassed the other dog! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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