Steampunk corkscrew

Posted on March 14, 2012 by KG

In bronze, Wabbit’s favourite material. 300 moving parts to open a bottle of wine! Oswald and Darin will appreciate this….

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21 Responses to Steampunk corkscrew

  1. Darin says:
    March 14, 2012 at 04:20

    WOT?No block of Concrete? :grin: Pretty neat,must have cost a mint with all that Bronze :shock:

    One of my favorite mechanical marvels-

    http://youtu.be/ZrfMFhrgOFc

    Those Greeks were pretty dam smart,gettting the gear train down to display the phases of the Moon is impressive for the time.

  2. KG says:
    March 14, 2012 at 08:36

    Wonderful!
    People tend to think that we’re smarter nowadays, but I very much doubt it. We’ve simply built on what those before us achieved.

  3. Darin says:
    March 14, 2012 at 10:11

    Another favorite piece is the Harrison H4-

    http://www.sailingwarship.com/harrisons-h4-chronometer-1760.html

    John Harrison is a hero of mine,to start as a carpenter and eventually solve one of the most dogged problems of mankind says a lot about his intellect.

    • KG says:
      March 14, 2012 at 10:25

      Ah yes..didn’t he win the Admiralty prize for that? It’s hard to think of many modern devices for which we don’t owe a debt of gratitude to our forefathers.

  4. Darin says:
    March 14, 2012 at 10:48

    Yes,after Parliament tried to screw him on it and the Longitude board which were mostly Astronomers and mathematicians collectively ignored or tried to suppress it.Sound familiar? :roll:

    He only won standing after King George III tested it in his own observatory and found it accurate to 1/3 of a second per day.IIRC his statement to Harrison was “By God man I shall see you righted”

    He is definitely one of the greats in the same league as Nasmyth,Whitworth,Fulton and Watts.I try to tell young people that those folks are the ones they should look up to and emulate,not these idiot entertainers and politicians.

  5. KG says:
    March 14, 2012 at 12:05

    “..collectively ignored or tried to suppress it.Sound familiar?” Oh yes!
    “I try to tell young people that those folks are the ones they should look up to and emulate..” Those men were giants, deserving of reverence and I learned that at a very young age, because my father was an engineer. When I see some celebrity called a “hero” it makes me want to throw up–John Harrison and others like him are the real heroes.
    But we are dinosaurs, Darin. :roll:

  6. oswald bastable says:
    March 14, 2012 at 14:44

    If you can strip, reassemble and make a WWII teleprinter work, you can fix anything!
    (and the NZ Army was using them into the 80’s!)

    • Darin says:
      March 14, 2012 at 15:05

      Some of the s— I’ve worked with,the first step in obtaining parts was to find someone who spoke Czechoslovakian.

      In Czechoslovakia you don’t fix Boring mill,Boring mill fixes you :grin:

    • KG says:
      March 14, 2012 at 15:07

      I could try doing that, Oswald but something tells me I’d end up with a box full of spares and nothing else. :sad:

  7. mara says:
    March 14, 2012 at 17:53

    Is this a man only site?

  8. KG says:
    March 14, 2012 at 18:41

    Name your interests and we’ll put up a post on one of them. ;-)

    • Andrei says:
      March 14, 2012 at 18:51

      How about a post on “Reproductive Justice”?

      I’m sure all CR fans would love to know more of this exciting but largely unexplored field of human study

      Reproductive justice has emerged as new critical reproductive theory linking it to critical race theory proponents that highlight intersectionality of race, gender, class, sexual orientation, disability, immigration status, and age as critical factors that must be incorporated to address the complex web of reproductive oppression faced by communities of color

    • The Gantt Guy says:
      March 14, 2012 at 18:51

      J*zz and t3nn15

    • Ciaron says:
      March 15, 2012 at 04:54

      The mechanics of a properly repeating g :censor f swing?

  9. KG says:
    March 14, 2012 at 19:51

    That’s a relief. I can feel the temperature dropping already.