sublime machinery

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/11/10/1257858784566/A-cooling-tower-and-elect-003.jpg

http://cdn.makezine.com/make/blogs/blog.makezine.com/upload/2010/06/my_10_favorite_mechanical_animation/04_animation.gif

http://cdn.makezine.com/make/blogs/blog.makezine.com/upload/2010/06/my_10_favorite_mechanical_animation/06_animation.gif

fuckin love wankel roatary engines i do

rotary ones too

rx-7 was my dream car as a young lad

a friend has one, always seems to be in the garage. costs a bomb to run. nice idea in theory though, the engine is tiny.

http://www.churchmusicdublin.org/files/inside/organ.png

http://blogs.princeton.edu/great-immensity/images/ulstein-x-bow-container-ship.png

http://i.imgur.com/6F6rj.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/9pKnh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/GA2zn.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/InWMk.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/bn5cm.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/cnJgs.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/fa2Bd.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Mq65P.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3438/3394645652_3d3044ec40_b.jpg

107" telescope, mcdonald obs., tx. best.

http://www.psm-sensors.co.uk/images/atlantic_dawn.jpg

http://tractorspares.ie/images/MF135.jpg

^ i was in either one or t'other iirc

made you a video of me walking round the 107" telescope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGTt9_fg2wQ

awes

http://youtu.be/_uHZKyEiy-w

25 gears with a ratio of 120/14. the first gear moves at 79.2 RPM. The last wheel will make one revolution in five hundred and ninety-four billion years. So it doesn't matter that it's embedded in concrete

Do a search for 'Arthur Ganson' for more cool machine art things.

does that have a purpose? aside from being a+ cool, obv

That was my first zero views video, caek.

uploaded 4 u

This thread is fucking fantastic.

so jealous of caek!! what am I doing that that is not a part of my life. it looks like you're in a jame bond movie.

http://i.imgur.com/QX5wa.gif

Britney can i get your sister jame bond Email

i had no idea http://vimeo.com/9388444

ship carry ships

http://i.imgur.com/ZuuW0.jpg

what the ship

yo dawg i heard you like ships so we put some ships on your ship

etc

more for fans of ship recursion here fwiw

http://www.fotovlieger.nl/project/201203_blue_marlin

europe's atv docking with the iss:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wpULQDuD0Oc/T3R52PK2YFI/AAAAAAAAAkA/akWUlpop3Vc/s903/ATV-1.jpg

via https://plus.google.com/116214152295449083654/posts/BQCqA3ceVnb

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/iron-giant/8886/

http://i.imgur.com/ZUwbkZ9.jpg

I went to a steam rally yesterday...obviously nothing was on the scale of some of the stuff in this thread but it was awesome...both my grandad and my uncle are engineers/inventors so it was great having the mechanisms of stuff explained to me (I didn't inherit any of their technical/practical abilities sadly).

Very sick thread though, awesome stuff.

woah two awesome's, sorry.

magnificent!

xxp

http://youtu.be/q_0xifuTqVA

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/q_0xifuTqVA"; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

whatevs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TczQZUboe0

can I not get the YT image to show on the page anymore?

First vid = huge engine
Second vid = speed plowing with old Ford, and masses of black smoke

http://pctrs.network.hu/clubpicture/1/8/_/bmwm5motor_108667_68739.jpg

http://people.bath.ac.uk/mtl21/images/F-1%20Rocket%20engine.JPG

“Very quickly, it became clear that nobody wanted to go back at night because FLIP was not only more comfortable, but it provided a good platform for working 24 hours a day,” says Pinkel. “When things were working, you didn’t want to leave your experiment to go back to a mothership.”

I'm picturing the shuttle ship showing up at the end of the day when they first started the project and one of the scientists sadly mumbling "but I like it here!"

love that this account has got v salty since the election

Automated polymer binding foam agent sprayers reduce coal dust coming off of coal transport trains. Luckily, coal will soon be replaced by cleaner, more modern, and more efficient sources of energy that create more jobs. pic.twitter.com/P9t6biEDD6

— Machine Pix (@MachinePix) November 20, 2017

haha literally just seen that, there was a retweeted response too

lol kbye https://t.co/S6XeRDUwLi

— Machine Pix (@MachinePix) November 20, 2017

bah doesn't show the reply tweet. Here it is

This guy is in total meltdown. WAS an interesting account. Going off on politics? Who cares? Bye guy.https://t.co/HxClhwbx0y

— Mike Chillit (@MikeChillit) November 20, 2017

mike failing to live up to his name

^^ Dude has made half a dozen tweets about missing Malaysian Air flight in the past hour.

Mr. Chillit, not Mr. Spiralli.

i have also narrowed down possible location of the wreckage to somewhere in the pacific, i just don't like to brag about it on the timeline

Just awesome pic.twitter.com/WFD6xlxX9d

— The Invisible Man (@invisibleman_17) March 5, 2018

isambard kingdom brunel fever dream

https://i.imgur.com/PUOMoKk.gif

Decades worth of layered paint was peeled, chiseled, and sawed off of Tufts' iconic cannon, which students have used as a kind of billboard since 1977, via @BostonGlobe https://t.co/jG5hlz7Iln pic.twitter.com/E5yF873XaJ

— Tufts University (@TuftsUniversity) September 8, 2018

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm3nzIAhxeM/?taken-by=otbp_cookiecutters

Love that. "Damn that sound is so satisfying" otm

a couple more here - https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/09/cookie-cutters/

50Hzと60Hzの違い． pic.twitter.com/9HkISxT7CZ

— デッドセクション (@ACDCSection) October 3, 2018

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DqJMpq6W4AAB9BH.jpg

https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Technic-Bucket-Excavator-Construction/dp/B01CU9X8AC/

wau

It’s this mechanical scale model of a three-ring circus, currently on display at Rosebery’s auction house in West Norwood. @roseberysltd pic.twitter.com/HsW47M1YSZ

— Lev Parikian (@LevParikian) November 17, 2018

to continue on a (lol) micro scale, this model of a circus is quite mesmerising tbh!

Breaking up is hard to do. Manitoba uses these 20,000 kg Amphibex machines to break up channels in the frozen river and speed up spring thaw. pic.twitter.com/eZhorWMFlL

— CBC Manitoba (@CBCManitoba) March 12, 2019

I don’t want to overexcite you too much... but here’s an exclusive shot I just took of the settings available on the back of a traffic light. pic.twitter.com/M1bdGxgDIv

— Will Freeman (@spadgy_OTA) April 12, 2019

will this work?

Interesting lock pic.twitter.com/TzfDUfOqcN

— Universal Curiosity (@UniverCurious) December 27, 2019

don't see why not, just an overly complicated latch isn't it?

I would think thought that excessive force would damage the ring?

(I meant the magical auto linking of the tweet)

lol

Symphonie mécanique (1955) by Jean Mitry, with soundtrack by Pierre Boulez:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltWMF-YA5Mc

PENETRATION pic.twitter.com/22gWE5sU85

— kissmemore (@snoomr) May 21, 2021

Marbles are made on a marble run?! https://t.co/oBySHoNRky pic.twitter.com/jYIRzhUmNm

— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) March 14, 2022

I bet half of those steps aren't even necessary... it just looks cool.

"Restless", a mechanical sculpture by Tobias Bradford. pic.twitter.com/sDkJVwbaL1

— MachinePix (@MachinePix) January 17, 2024