In article <[email protected]>, R.H.
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Another set has just been posted:
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
575: Not a clue
576: Escutcheon
577: Toaster. I used to have one like it.
578: Lacking a clue here, too.
579: Plumb bob?
580: Brake for bending metal?
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In article <[email protected]>, Rich Grise
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I saw several very much like this at "The Museum of
> Questionable Medical Devices" in Minneapolis, before it closed.
Oh, man... Is there any way to buy them out?
Seriously. Contact info? Anyone from the Twin Cities that can help?
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In article <[email protected]>, Joe Barta
<[email protected]> wrote:
> If you think about it, Google has positioned itself into an
> interesting position. Millions of people think Google Groups and
> USENET are one in the same... right out of the AOL or MS playbook.
And now...
<http://news.com.com/Google+wants+dark+fiber/2100-1034_3-5537392.html>
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In article <[email protected]>, Joe Barta
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm guessing you posted the link for a reason. I'm curious to hear
> your thoughts on the article.
Maybe millions of people will soon think that Google and the Internet
are one and the same...
Some here already think they're a browser...
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"R.H." <[email protected]> writes:
>Another set has just been posted:
>
>http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
>
>Rob
>
>
#575 For analytical chemistry?
#576 Lock escuscion(sp?)?
#577 Toaster
#578 Rockwell hardness gauge
#579 ?
#580 Tongs for metal working?
According to R.H. <[email protected]>:
> Another set has just been posted:
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
As usual -- posting from rec.crafts.metalworking. Getting a
late start tonight. (It may be tomorrow by the time I finish typing. :-)
575) -- one of the various optional electrodes from the antique home
diathermy kits. The usual primary one was a bent tube with a
funnel on the end, and a gently domed cap.
In operation, a high voltage was generated and applied to the
electrode on the small end of the tube. It would generate a
purplish glow inside the tube (low pressure + high voltage), and
it would loosen overtense muscles. (It would also blast out
reception of any radio station for blocks around, making them
rather unpopular with the FCC. :-)
576) What it the material? Iron? It looks like a decorative anchor
for a carrying strap on some old Chinese basketwork.
577) Quite obviously, an old (pre pop-up) toaster. I remember that
my grandparents used one like that when I was a kid.
The round things half-way up the sides were asbestos disks so
you could grip it to open the doors, let the toast slide down,
and re-close it to toast the other side.
Ours had a knob on one end which opened both sides at once, and
closed them at once.
578) From the side, it looks like an old and elaborate radiator cap,
but I believe that in reality, it is a hardness tester, for one
of the Rockwell hardness scales -- with 'C' being the most
common.
579) If it were not for the smaller threads on the other end, and
the poor choice of material, I would think that it was a
"transfer screw", for marking a centerpunch mark in steel to
match a threaded hole. (It may still be something of the sort
for woodwork, where the brass would not be a problem, but I
don't know why the smaller threads at the other end.
580) I don't know. Perhaps for bending thin sheet metal -- perhaps
copper for roofing flashing?
Now to see what others have said.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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R.H. wrote:
> Another set has just been posted:
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
575: electro-stim wand
576: I was thinking it was a decorative cover for the hole in a wood
stove, but I'm going with katana tsuba
577: toaster
578: Rockwell hardness meter (tests hardness of metal)
579: patch jag for the end of a cleaning rod (firearm barrel cleaning)
580: tongs for bending sheet glass?
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Pete C. wrote:
> Dave Balderstone wrote:
>
> <snipped>
>
> > Boycott Google for their support of communist censorship and repression!
>
> What's a Google? All I ever use in Altavista...
>
Google is what is called a _Web Portal_. One accesses Google with a
web browser and it has links to a search engine for the World Wide Web
and another for the Usenet Archives. It also provides a web-based
interface
for searching, reading, and posting to UseNet newsgroups and some other
non-Usenet nesgroups as well. Google also offers email and a few other
services.
Google is also the name of the company that makes all that happen.
--
FF
Joe Barta writes:
> Somewhere along the line, someone else thought it would also be a
> groovy idea to gather up all those past USENET discussions, along with
> all the new ones that are being generated every day, and put them in a
> big fat searchable database. And then make that database accessible
> with a web browser. Several years ago there was a website called
> DejaNews that did just that. I don't know how they did it or if they
> were the first, but they did it and it was cool.
Actually DejaNews didn't attempt to gather Usenet postings from before
they existed; they just retained everything posted during their existence.
At first they made the whole lot available, then they cut back the free
service to just the most recent 6-12 months.
I still miss their "one line per article" search result format.
> As with many things on the web, after a few years it fizzled. They
> probably ran out of money and they went offline.
>
> Fast forward to a couple years ago, and Google announces that they've
> bought the USENET archive that belonged to DejaNews and soon they will
> be using their wonderous search technology on all those old
> discussions and make them accessible from groups.google.com.
And then after *that*, they incorporated old articles from several
*other* archives -- ones that had never been publicly available --
thus providing content (although with some gaps in coverage) from as
far back as 1981, just 2 years after the start of Usenet.
--
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[email protected] | to submit to it." -- Miguel de Cervantes, 1613
My text in this article is in the public domain.
R.H. <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
575: Some kind of medical instrument. Maybe some UV-comb or the like.
The made weird things at that time.
577: A toaster ("Shiny like a toaster")
578: Hardness-tester (by Rockwell)
580: For bending thin sheet metal. Roofing usage
Nick
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On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:35:16 GMT, "R.H." <[email protected]> wrote:
>Another set has just been posted:
>
>http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
>
>Rob
>
#576 is a tsuba from a Japanese sword
#577 is a toaster for bread.
[email protected] wrote:
>
> Pete C. wrote:
> > Dave Balderstone wrote:
> >
> > <snipped>
> >
> > > Boycott Google for their support of communist censorship and repression!
> >
> > What's a Google? All I ever use in Altavista...
> >
>
> Google is what is called a _Web Portal_. One accesses Google with a
> web browser and it has links to a search engine for the World Wide Web
> and another for the Usenet Archives. It also provides a web-based
> interface
> for searching, reading, and posting to UseNet newsgroups and some other
> non-Usenet nesgroups as well. Google also offers email and a few other
> services.
>
> Google is also the name of the company that makes all that happen.
>
> --
>
> FF
And Altavista is a superior search engine.
Pete C.
"R.H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Another set has just been posted:
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
>
#575 Wand from static shock machine?
#577 A very old toaster
#580 Large tongs for stretching canvas
Stuart Pearson
Pete C. wrote:
> Dave Balderstone wrote:
>
> <snipped>
>
>>Boycott Google for their support of communist censorship and repression!
>
>
> What's a Google? All I ever use in Altavista...
Google is the best browser on the net. And screw the politics. If you
want to be able to find stuff fast and rather completely Google is the
software to use. Their preeminence in the browser market is no accident.
Bob Kolker
All have been answered correctly this week:
575. Electrode for a Violet Ray quack medical device
576. Tsuba, hand guard for a Japanese sword
577. Toaster
578. Hardness tester
579. Cleaning jag for a .45
580. Roofing tongs
More photos and some links have been posted on the answer page:
http://pzphotosan102tw.blogspot.com/
Rob
"Rich Grise" wrote: (clip)The 580 tongs I'm guessing are for hot sheet
metal.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The same thought passed through my mind. The style and construction of
those tongs says "blacksmith." The width says "sheet metal." A piece of
sheet metal the width of those tongs would be too stiff to bend cold, so we
come to hot sheet metal. But nothing in a blacksmith shop would heat a
piece of sheet metal that wide uniformly, so there must be more to the
story.
Dave Balderstone wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Joe Barta
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm guessing you posted the link for a reason. I'm curious to hear
>>your thoughts on the article.
>
>
> Maybe millions of people will soon think that Google and the Internet
> are one and the same...
>
> Some here already think they're a browser...
>
OH! and didn't "ole whatisname" invent the Internet ????
:-)
...lew...
Odinn <[email protected]> writes:
> On 2/2/2006 4:35 AM R.H. mumbled something about the following:
> > Another set has just been posted:
> > http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
> > Rob
> >
>
> 577 Copeman Electric Stove toaster
They're great fun. I used one (or one very similar, with much
better visibility) at university. People originally thought a
toaster that did both sides and automatically popped up would
be incomparably superior to one you had to drive manually.
Until they were given the chance to drive it manually. The
look on their faces when they first pulled the sides down,
and the slice rotated, presenting its opposite side to the
element, proved that deep down they were jealous...
Get your hands on one if you can!
Phil
--
What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
-- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), The Twilight of the Gods
Gary wrote:
> Wrong, google Groups -is- a browser.
I'm having "AOL is the Internet" flashbacks ;-)
Let's see if we can't clear this up...
First, let's back up a little. It's important to think of the Internet
as not one, but several things, the most common of which are...
* World Wide Web... the various millions of web sites out there.
* eMail... self explanatory
* USENET... thousands of discussion groups.
* IRC... Internet Relay Chat (old school instant messenger)
* FTP... File Transfer Protocol
There are others, but those have been the big ones in the last decade
or so. (The "World Wide Web" [or WWW or just web] is only one
component of the internet.)
USENET has been around LONG before Google. People used various
software (commonly known as newsreaders) to access USENET newsgroups.
(I'd say most people still do. I use Xnews myself. Forte Agent and MS
Outlook are also common.)
As the WWW grew in popularity, some folks decided it would be a groovy
idea to be able to access USENET with an ordinary web browser (such as
Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, etc.) Think of it as accessing a
radio station with an ordinary telephone. This is what Google has
done. They are not the first and they are not the only. Their web
interface to USENET is part of what we know as "Google Groups".
Somewhere along the line, someone else thought it would also be a
groovy idea to gather up all those past USENET discussions, along with
all the new ones that are being generated every day, and put them in a
big fat searchable database. And then make that database accessible
with a web browser. Several years ago there was a website called
DejaNews that did just that. I don't know how they did it or if they
were the first, but they did it and it was cool.
As with many things on the web, after a few years it fizzled. They
probably ran out of money and they went offline.
Fast forward to a couple years ago, and Google announces that they've
bought the USENET archive that belonged to DejaNews and soon they will
be using their wonderous search technology on all those old
discussions and make them accessible from groups.google.com.
Google Groups is now TWO things... a web interface to USENET and an
agreggator/search tool of USENET discussions.
If you think about it, Google has positioned itself into an
interesting position. Millions of people think Google Groups and
USENET are one in the same... right out of the AOL or MS playbook.
Oh, and one more thing... Google is not a browser. A browser, or more
precisely a "web browser" is the software that you use to access
various web sites (including Google Groups) on the WWW. The most
common web browser these days is Internet Explorer, with Firefox
running a distant second.
And that's all I have to say about that.
Joe Barta
Dave Balderstone wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Joe
> Barta <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If you think about it, Google has positioned itself into an
>> interesting position. Millions of people think Google Groups and
>> USENET are one in the same... right out of the AOL or MS
>> playbook.
>
> And now...
>
> <http://news.com.com/Google+wants+dark+fiber/2100-1034_3-5537392.ht
> ml>
>
I'm guessing you posted the link for a reason. I'm curious to hear
your thoughts on the article.
Joe Barta
On 3 Feb 2006 03:51:50 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
>Google is a search engine, not a browser.
You browse with nothing particular in mind, or for some general
purpose; you search for something specific. It's still essentially
the same act. Now let's get a life.
They're seaming tongs for closing the joints on standing seam roofs.
Paul K. Dickman
"Leo Lichtman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Rich Grise" wrote: (clip)The 580 tongs I'm guessing are for hot sheet
> metal.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> The same thought passed through my mind. The style and construction of
> those tongs says "blacksmith." The width says "sheet metal." A piece of
> sheet metal the width of those tongs would be too stiff to bend cold, so
> we come to hot sheet metal. But nothing in a blacksmith shop would heat a
> piece of sheet metal that wide uniformly, so there must be more to the
> story.
>
Gary wrote:
> Wrong, google Groups -is- a browser. I am using it right now to post
> this message. But I much prefer Agent as it has spell check and kill
> files capability.
Huh? Internet Explorer is a browser. Netscape is a browser. Konqueror is
a browser. Google is a _server_, not a _browser_.
Agent is also not a browser, it is a "newsreader", which is slightly
different from the portal access called "Google Groups" provided via the
Google server.
--
--John
to email, dial "usenet" and validate
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
Rich Grise wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:35:16 +0000, R.H. wrote:
>
>> Another set has just been posted:
>>
>> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>>
>
> 575: I'm going with HV gas discharge tube for questionable medical
> purposes - I saw several very much like this at "The Museum of
> Questionable Medical Devices" in Minneapolis, before it closed.
> I've tried searching their website, but don't see it. The device
> is filled with rarefied gas, and the HV supply goes to that metal
> cap, and it lights up like a neon lamp, tingles a little where the
> fingers are dragged over the skin, and makes ozone. ;-)
Google "violet wand"--there is one site that has an animation of that
particular type of tube in operation.
> And everybody got 577 the toaster and 578 the Rockwell tester. )-;
>
> The 580 tongs I'm guessing are for hot sheet metal.
>
> Cheers!
> Rich
--
--John
to email, dial "usenet" and validate
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
579 Screws on to the end of a rod for pushing claning patches down gun
barrels.
"DoN. Nichols" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> According to R.H. <[email protected]>:
> > Another set has just been posted:
> >
> > http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
> As usual -- posting from rec.crafts.metalworking. Getting a
> late start tonight. (It may be tomorrow by the time I finish typing. :-)
>
> 575) -- one of the various optional electrodes from the antique home
> diathermy kits. The usual primary one was a bent tube with a
> funnel on the end, and a gently domed cap.
>
> In operation, a high voltage was generated and applied to the
> electrode on the small end of the tube. It would generate a
> purplish glow inside the tube (low pressure + high voltage), and
> it would loosen overtense muscles. (It would also blast out
> reception of any radio station for blocks around, making them
> rather unpopular with the FCC. :-)
>
> 576) What it the material? Iron? It looks like a decorative anchor
> for a carrying strap on some old Chinese basketwork.
>
> 577) Quite obviously, an old (pre pop-up) toaster. I remember that
> my grandparents used one like that when I was a kid.
>
> The round things half-way up the sides were asbestos disks so
> you could grip it to open the doors, let the toast slide down,
> and re-close it to toast the other side.
>
> Ours had a knob on one end which opened both sides at once, and
> closed them at once.
>
> 578) From the side, it looks like an old and elaborate radiator cap,
> but I believe that in reality, it is a hardness tester, for one
> of the Rockwell hardness scales -- with 'C' being the most
> common.
>
> 579) If it were not for the smaller threads on the other end, and
> the poor choice of material, I would think that it was a
> "transfer screw", for marking a centerpunch mark in steel to
> match a threaded hole. (It may still be something of the sort
> for woodwork, where the brass would not be a problem, but I
> don't know why the smaller threads at the other end.
>
> 580) I don't know. Perhaps for bending thin sheet metal -- perhaps
> copper for roofing flashing?
>
> Now to see what others have said.
>
> Enjoy,
> DoN.
> --
> Email: <[email protected]> | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564
> (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html
> --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---
Robert J. Kolker wrote:
>
> Google is the best browser on the net. And screw the politics. If you
> want to be able to find stuff fast and rather completely Google is the
> software to use. Their preeminence in the browser market is no accident.
>
> Bob Kolker
Do you call Google a "Browser" ? I call the thing running in my
computer (Netscape) a browser. Google and Altavista are "search
engines" aren't they? //
...lew...
Oleg Lego <[email protected]> wrote:
>The Robert J. Kolker entity posted thusly:
>
>>Google is the best browser on the net. And screw the politics. If you
>>want to be able to find stuff fast and rather completely Google is the
>>software to use. Their preeminence in the browser market is no accident.
>
>Google has a browser out? More info, please.
It's such a good search engine that people are using Google as their home page -
and it's a small step for newbies to start equating their home page with their
browser.
--
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Windsurfing capital of the Southern Hemisphere
Moderator: polyforms group ([email protected])
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:35:16 +0000, R.H. wrote:
> Another set has just been posted:
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
575: I'm going with HV gas discharge tube for questionable medical
purposes - I saw several very much like this at "The Museum of
Questionable Medical Devices" in Minneapolis, before it closed.
I've tried searching their website, but don't see it. The device
is filled with rarefied gas, and the HV supply goes to that metal
cap, and it lights up like a neon lamp, tingles a little where the
fingers are dragged over the skin, and makes ozone. ;-)
And everybody got 577 the toaster and 578 the Rockwell tester. )-;
The 580 tongs I'm guessing are for hot sheet metal.
Cheers!
Rich
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:48:53 -0600, Dave Balderstone wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Rich Grise
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I saw several very much like this at "The Museum of Questionable Medical
>> Devices" in Minneapolis, before it closed.
>
> Oh, man... Is there any way to buy them out?
>
> Seriously. Contact info? Anyone from the Twin Cities that can help?
http://www.mtn.org/quack/welcome.htm
Cheers!
Rich
The Robert J. Kolker entity posted thusly:
>Google is the best browser on the net. And screw the politics. If you
>want to be able to find stuff fast and rather completely Google is the
>software to use. Their preeminence in the browser market is no accident.
Google has a browser out? More info, please.
Gary wrote:
) Wrong, google Groups -is- a browser. I am using it right now to post
) this message. But I much prefer Agent as it has spell check and kill
) files capability.
And because it doesn't encourage people to reply to articles without
quoting relevant context, thus making it difficult to follow.
SaSW, Willem
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made in the above text. For all I know I might be
drugged or something..
No I'm not paranoid. You all think I'm paranoid, don't you !
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