Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Longines Lindbergh's Atlantic Voyage Watch
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Additional photos and useful info @ Watch Happening
Monday, September 28, 2009
HMS Nelson
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The glorious pair bears not a co-incidental resemblance to the megalomaniac post-Jutland concepts. Their design is more realistic and budget-minded. Anyway, these ships were huge (33,950 t standard displacement, 710 ft long), well-armed ( 9 x 16" in triple turrets, 12 x 6" plus a vast battery of AA guns) and very well protected.
Commissioned in 1927, both fought in the WWII and survived - just to be scrapped in 1949.
Photo: Maritimequest
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Belgian Champion
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a streamlined 4-4-2 passenger locomotive of the Belgian National Railroads (SNCB)
100 mph in 1939!
Photo by Marc Petit @ Flickr
Europe's Second Tallest
Warsaw, Poland
Designed by Marcin Weinfeld, Stefan Bryła, Wenczesław Poniż for an insurance company, it was 66 m tall. Construction started in 1931 and was completed in 1934. Since 1937 there was a TV transmitter mast on the roof. Severely damaged in 1944, Prudential was rebuilt after the war.
Now it houses Hotel Warszawa.
More info @ Emporis.Com
More pictures @ Dieselpunks.org
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Italian SLR
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Together with the German Contax S, one of the first SLRs equipped with pentaprism.
Introduced in 1949
Late 25000 series version (so-called Rectaflex 1300) is shown
More info @ Camerapedia
Photo © Silvain Halgand Collection
Friday, September 25, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Iofan's Children
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Projects, objects and sketches reviving the positivist spirit of the Soviet art.
The group is named after Boris Iofan, a prominent Soviet architect. Among his works are several studies for the Palace of Soviets, majestic Government house in Moscow and striking USSR Pavillion at the 1937 Paris World Fair.
Presentation @ Dieselpunks.org
Website
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Doorman's Flagship
Laid down: 1933. Launched: 1935. Commissioned: 1936
Seven 150-mm guns on a 6442-ton displacement
Crew: 435
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Sixwheeler
on 6x4 ZIS-34 chassis, armed with a 45mm gun and two MGs.
Weight - 8,4 ton, top speed - 64 km/h
Eighteen BA-11s with ~90 h.p. petrol and diesel engines were built in 1939-41
Weight - 8,4 ton, top speed - 64 km/h
Eighteen BA-11s with ~90 h.p. petrol and diesel engines were built in 1939-41
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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