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That looks way better than I thought it would. They don’t make them like that anymore.


3 posted on 09/11/2022 6:56:13 PM PDT by UNGN
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To: UNGN; texas booster; Texan5; Lazamataz; Kaslin; BenLurkin; Liz

Thank you. One of my earliest memories is of looking at the steam pistons inside the Battleship texas engineroom. Thinking “I could stand in that! And it goes up and down drives that! (Looking back at the propeller shaft.)

http://battleshiptexas.info/images/Systems/Steering/SteeringRm.html

Then I realized that this “modern” battleship still had Nelson-era steering wheels and ropes for emergency steering! And with an analog computer up forward that used dials for the latitude, the speed and the temperature and the course ... Just so it could shoot straight for miles and miles.

I was hooked forever!


9 posted on 09/11/2022 8:02:23 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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