Whether it's a good or a bad thing is arguable, but it's a very good example of functional design.
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Sea launch one
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[url= http://www.camperandnicholsons.com/luxury-yachts-for-sale/columbia-ii-4188/ ]Columbia II - currently for sale[/url]
Also, one of the things that pretty much got humans going:
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just for the round bit, that is, although the giant lorries are fairly awesome themselves
1000t hydraulic salvage grab
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built by a bloke in a brown coat from the GPO
In the same vein as julianwilson's (DYSWIDT?)
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Small, beautiful, functional things.....
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Flipship! Clever 😉
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I'm not understanding that flip ship.
What does it do?
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Antikythera Mechanism
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My awesome bits are NSFSTW 😉
This, though, is truly awesome
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Too much massive machine envy. Here's the best bit of kit I've ever bought. 15 years and counting and still perfectly functional. I swear I'm going to buried in this.
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Less "kit" than "concept" but still... how about THIS
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Leading to tools that ultimately evolved over a long time to THIS
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Along the way allowing for THIS to happen
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Then evolving to be avialable to the masses like THIS
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And finally ending up with THIS
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The 70's Marshall Amp stack and Gibbo LP.
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And "the" Moog.
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This, spent a fair bit of time around it as it was where my dad worked. Can move it with just a drill and has full movement.
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OP - a school friend is a designer for RNLI kit, started with Severn Class and more recently the Tamar Class.
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The tevo tarantula- basically the cheapest 3D printer that doesn't suck donkey balls. Costs $200, comes in a shoebox from China, builds like meccano, then makes things. Mine continually makes me feel like I'm living in the future.
The original British Seagul outboard engine. Powered millions of small boats for generations..
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And the incogitable..
Leatherman Wave
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Kettlebell
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Bought when i first joined up 25 years ago, tried killing it but it refuses to die, still use the side pockets all the time for bikepacking and the main bergen doesn't have a stitch out of place
Morizumi spoke making machine:
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Handmade in Japan, it's a beautiful little thing.
Or a Curta:
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Curta Dismantled[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/cycleologist/ ]Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr
Over 600 parts, in something you can easily fit in one hand...
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Has to be the E Class Mk2. Not as big as a Severn, but goes crazy fast. We don't have a kettle though.
Water water everywhere, and now a drop to drink.
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Changed the Game and gained massive media publicity too..
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Over 600 parts, in something you can easily fit in one hand...
And designed (in part) in a concentration camp, by an inmate.
(Beat me to it Ben)
And designed (in part) in a concentration camp, by an inmate.
And, perhaps most amazingly, mass-produced in the hundreds of thousands, in the days before CAD.
Biggest piece of kit I've ever seen afloat and working...
SSCV Thialf is the world’s largest crane vessel. Its dual cranes provide for depth reach lowering capability as well as heavy lift capacity up to 14,200 tonnes.... dynamic positioned precision.
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Mine continually makes me feel like I'm living in the future.
Whereas everything you actually see it do is happening in the past. That makes it even more mindblowing 🙂
Modern cars - coming from a, designed in the 70's, Defender to a modern car it is amazing how they have progressed and how easy they make driving.
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