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What do you think is the most beautiful of machines?
- Thread starter Eddi
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Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Steam. Unmatched power and reliability.
...and sheer beauty to behold.
...and sheer beauty to behold.
This one. But I'm a bit biased...
But here are a couple of others that I've been impressed with over the last month or so...
1960 Buick Invicta resto-mod.
1958 Chevy Apache
And a few of my dream cars...
1959 Buick Invicta
1949 Buick Roadmaster
1967 Chevy Camaro RS/SS
But here are a couple of others that I've been impressed with over the last month or so...
1960 Buick Invicta resto-mod.
1958 Chevy Apache
And a few of my dream cars...
1959 Buick Invicta
1949 Buick Roadmaster
1967 Chevy Camaro RS/SS
My dad had one of these, lovely looking car
Many of us followed Kory Anderson's progress building that machine from scratch.
Beauty is about more than appearance.
Function matters too.
This is the most beautiful machine ever designed.
Why?
This is a complex electronically controlled heat pump.
There are many brands & models made over the course of a century.
To use it, you just walk up to it, & instinctively know what to do.
Tomef
Well-Known Member
The pen. The pen, or the pencil too, is one of the most amazing things ever created by anyone. Some pens/pencils have a more beautiful form than others, but the beauty is in what it can be used for.
Tomef
Well-Known Member
Yeah. I tend to use mechanical pencils though, when writing on paper. Mostly I use an Apple Pencil, another pretty useful invention.
(like the screw shown above)
Too many to list! Just to name a few:
The Komatsu PC8000 excavator, weighing over 750 tonnes:
The legendary Ferrari 250 GTO, one of which sold for about $54m at auction:
The Flying Scotsman:
Here's a pretty cool machine. It's a huge gravitational wave detector in three parts that will be orbiting the sun behind the earth
Now look at this for animation:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/LISA_motion.gif/300px-LISA_motion.gif
In this graphic, you will see the earth orbiting the sun (blue ellipse) with three objects in different but similar orbits (purple, green, and yellow ellipses) in such a way that the three space probes remain in a perfect equilateral triangle following it. You also see what is intended to represent gravitational wave distorting a grid.
"The spacecraft will form an equilateral triangle with side lengths of about a million kilometres, creating the largest man-made structure ever in space. Precise heterodyne laser interferometry will then detect the small changes in distance triggered by gravitational waves."
And what is this huge device doing? As noted, it's detecting gravitational waves coming from huge astronomical objects, which will compress space allowing laser interferometers (the LI in LISA, the name of the mission) to detect this compression:
"The LISA mission is designed for direct observation of gravitational waves, which are distortions of spacetime travelling at the speed of light. Passing gravitational waves alternately squeeze and stretch space itself by a tiny amount. Gravitational waves are caused by energetic events in the universe and, unlike any other radiation, can pass unhindered by intervening mass. Launching LISA will add a new sense to scientists' perception of the universe and enable them to study phenomena that are invisible in normal light.[15][16] Potential sources for signals are merging massive black holes at the centre of galaxies,[17] massive black holes orbited by small compact objects, known as extreme mass ratio inspirals,[18] binaries of compact stars,[19] and possibly other sources of cosmological origin, such as a cosmological phase transition shortly after the Big Bang,[20] and speculative astrophysical objects like cosmic strings and domain boundaries.[21]"
Gravitational waves are something different. All incoming data in the past has been either electromagnetic radiation (visible light, radio and gamma rays, etc.) or particles (protons, neutrinos). Gravity waves are neither. They're a third type of message.
So, this is huge literally and figuratively, and for many, beautiful.
Now look at this for animation:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/LISA_motion.gif/300px-LISA_motion.gif
In this graphic, you will see the earth orbiting the sun (blue ellipse) with three objects in different but similar orbits (purple, green, and yellow ellipses) in such a way that the three space probes remain in a perfect equilateral triangle following it. You also see what is intended to represent gravitational wave distorting a grid.
"The spacecraft will form an equilateral triangle with side lengths of about a million kilometres, creating the largest man-made structure ever in space. Precise heterodyne laser interferometry will then detect the small changes in distance triggered by gravitational waves."
And what is this huge device doing? As noted, it's detecting gravitational waves coming from huge astronomical objects, which will compress space allowing laser interferometers (the LI in LISA, the name of the mission) to detect this compression:
"The LISA mission is designed for direct observation of gravitational waves, which are distortions of spacetime travelling at the speed of light. Passing gravitational waves alternately squeeze and stretch space itself by a tiny amount. Gravitational waves are caused by energetic events in the universe and, unlike any other radiation, can pass unhindered by intervening mass. Launching LISA will add a new sense to scientists' perception of the universe and enable them to study phenomena that are invisible in normal light.[15][16] Potential sources for signals are merging massive black holes at the centre of galaxies,[17] massive black holes orbited by small compact objects, known as extreme mass ratio inspirals,[18] binaries of compact stars,[19] and possibly other sources of cosmological origin, such as a cosmological phase transition shortly after the Big Bang,[20] and speculative astrophysical objects like cosmic strings and domain boundaries.[21]"
Gravitational waves are something different. All incoming data in the past has been either electromagnetic radiation (visible light, radio and gamma rays, etc.) or particles (protons, neutrinos). Gravity waves are neither. They're a third type of message.
So, this is huge literally and figuratively, and for many, beautiful.
Nimos
Well-Known Member
I Am Hugh
Researcher
Beauty in machinery to me is meticulous attention to detail. Some examples below. Often the details can even be unappealing to me, some of the color schemes in Rolls Royce, for example, and some of the excess in luxury motorhome paintjobs, but I still appreciate the attention to detail. If the videos are more than can keep your interest scan through them to more briefly see various aspects of the machine.
!966 Chrysler Imperial
The Rolls Royce Automobile
Luxury Motorhome
!966 Chrysler Imperial
The Rolls Royce Automobile
Luxury Motorhome
