Tuesday, November 14, 2023

What Is IT ?? ( I was gonna give this one to Phil and Cederq but decided to play here )

 

 Now to really piss off you rapscallions, I took a capture of the original and then filmed my

monitor so there will be no cheating with gugul images or tineye.  Maybe get out the old

Encyclopedia Brittanica set you have from the 1960s. IF you know, just comment "I know"

 

 

 


 

 I'll update with a full size picture later.  Currently I have no idea what it is.



 

39 comments:

  1. Something from Atlantis...

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  2. I don't know, but it's a damned nice one...

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  3. I'm guessing some sort of optics, maybe survey or lab related

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  4. No clue- guessing camera thingie….

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  5. I DON'T know, however whatever that thing is, it must be a bitch to calibrate. - Nemo

    P.S. Googley Eyes DOESN'T WORK per your indicated and scurrilous deception ;-)).

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  6. I wonder how many people out there reading this actually still have an encyclopedia or even an old World Almanac on hand to do some real fact checking?

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  7. Can one find an existing card index?

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  8. I'd like to have pictures from other angles, so I could be baffled from every direction.
    Something is supposed to move the brackets that have the hands that sweep the dials,,I guess.
    I've yet to Name the Dame,and I'm not about to get this.
    Shit,I should just take algebra, again.
    Never got that either.

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    1. Agree. Let's see the other sides, and any builder's plate. The blue thing on the other side could be a motor or a power source; it's impossible to tell from a single viewpoint. Could be a pre-war microtome, could be a prototype laser level, could be a barrel crown checking tool. The knurled cap on the left end of the cylindrical part says "lens" to me, but a simple side view doesn't help there.

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  9. Fleshlight prototype

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    1. Anon that’s some funny ass shit right thar. You definitely win innerwebz comment of the day

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  10. Looks to be a packing tape dispenser.

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  11. Easy. It's a range finder for the M65 Atomic Cannon.

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    1. Or perhaps the aiming apparatus for the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?
      Yes, I'm old.
      --Tennessee Budd

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  12. That looks like an old bombers sight.

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  13. Autopilot for aircraft.

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  14. Although it is missing a few attachments, it’s the bomb sight for a direct energy weapon being used to start fires and burn towns all around the world.

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  15. Kinda resembled a heads up display seen in fighters.

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  16. The old Bell & Howell crinkly coating shows this thing was made before 1970. Rustproof, scratchproof, that coating was nearly indestructible. Came in a blue tone too, which you always saw on the movie projectors in school.

    Drew458

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  17. It's a self-winding, dual-feed, non-magnetic supercalifragilisticexpialidociator.

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  18. that is a whocheefucker...

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  19. I think I know! It took awhile, but I got it!
    irontomflint

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  20. Wow! Have not used one of these since my wedding night. Measures the Angle of the Dangle, etc.

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  21. painting of a couple flowers

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  22. Grammeter for a turbo encabulator

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    1. Obviously made with framulated amulite.

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    2. Of COURSE, otherwise the sinusoidal motion of the dingle arm would be refracted. Geez...

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  23. It is Thee original muffler bearing measurement manufacturing tool. By golly I've never seen one of those before.

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  24. Looks like a flight control mixer off some kind of aircraft. The spoiler mixer off an L-1011 Tri Star looked a lot like that.

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