Obsolete Gear Photos

[AMZ-FX]

Really nice photos of ancient gear... 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64683169@N00

There is some beautiful stuff in that album...

In another of his albums, there is a pacemaker with carbon comp resistors and TO5 transistors (for that vintage feel)  8)

Enjoy,

Jack

 

[emrr]

Fetish territory for sure!

 

[PRR]

Here's one for the album.

This is a "vibrator" from a B-17 bomber. Aircraft use magneto ignition because there were VERY reliable magnetos. But magnetos do not work well at cranking RPM. There were several tricks (impulse couplers etc), but this plane used a Model T like vibrator to buzz-up a spark at low RPM.

I had a ticket to ride but found some legs sticking out of the side of the engine, and this unit sitting on the table. Looks a lot like a generator regulator, but wired different.