Name this component!

[HiTech]

Yes, it's a 6-chip Luxeon

 

[Marks256]

Ok, i am going to take a turn. What is this apparatus?

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[HiTech]

a jurassic period caculator operated by a hand crank?

 

[StopGo]

An antique shredding machine ?

 

[Marks256]

HiTech is the closest.

 

[Roff]

Looks like Charles Babbage's difference engine.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Looks like Charles Babbage's difference engine.

Or, to more correct, a modern museum model of it - Babbage was never able to get it made, as the technology of the time wasn't good enough. And the picture is actually 'difference engine 2' - kind of Windows Xp of it's day

This particular picture is from the London Science Museum.

Difference Engine 2 was built at the Science Museum to original designs, for the bicentennial of Babbage’s birth. It is the first of Babbage’s difference engines to be completed. It has seven orders of difference and will calculate to thirty one figures.

 

[Roff]

Or, to more correct, a modern museum model of it - Babbage was never able to get it made, as the technology of the time wasn't good enough. And the picture is actually 'difference engine 2' - kind of Windows Xp of it's day

This particular picture is from the London Science Museum.

Dang! I thought I had found a photo of Babbage and his engine.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Dang! I thought I had found a photo of Babbage and his engine.

That looks more like Barry Manilow?.

 

[Marks256]

Yes, Ron and Nigel got it. It is the London Science Museum's replica of Babbage's difference engine. GOOD!

Here is more info on Babbage; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbage

 

[Roff]

That looks more like Barry Manilow?.

!
You mean the guy who writes the songs that make the grown men cry?

 

[_nox_]

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You mean the guy who writes the songs that make the grown men cry?

How's one of them called ? Only once a song made me cry - ...

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

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You mean the guy who writes the songs that make the grown men cry?

I mean the guy with the big nose!

 

[HiTech]

Now these two guys have ski slopes!!

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Then there's this actress that has both a big nose and a big mouth.

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[Marks256]

HeHe, the guy on the right, with the cap, looks like he is about to show some small animal who is boss.

 

[OutToLunch]

is that Jamie Farr in the middle? If it is - geez he's gettin old...