Things you don't see much anymore!!

[rv driver]

Be sure to refill the ice trays, we're going to have company after
while.
Watch for the postman, I want to get this letter to Aunt Mary in the
mail today.
Quit slamming the screen door when you are on your way out!
Be sure and pull the windows down when you leave, it looks like
a shower is coming up.

YES the good old days of making your own ice with those aluminum trays, and Grandma's screen door leading to her home made Cherry/Apple pies are gone, HUMMM.

We have a screen door, but it doesn't look like that. There's no squeaky spring and so satisfying SLAP! as the door hits the jamb, either. We have ice trays, but they're not metal, nor do they have the little handle to break the cubes away from the divider.

[MICHAEL]

Don't see this much anymore, and many of us have never seen it at all!! LOL Guess what it is for a prize!! Will give the answer tomorrow!

Lets just say if you were to see one, back then ,,,,,,you just might see 50,000 or more!!! What was it used for??

It's a Football rattle, used at games back in the early 1900s!!! NO winners!!! LOL

[MICHAEL]

wow,,, I remember dad, and even grandpa, taking tubes out of the old TV sets, then taking them to one of these testing devices! Yes not only computers, but TV's ran off of vacuum tubes like those tested by this machine. You would open up that back of your 12 inch tv, and look for tubes that didn't glow,,, some didn't glow, and you just took a hand full, and tested them on this type of machines!!

Then the crash in Roswell New Mexico, alien space craft, and this ushered in the world of transistors, good bye vacuum Tubes!! Even Velcro came from that crashed UFO,,, Aliens had it on their clothing instead of zippers... lots of technology was reversed engineered from that unfortunate crash, all for the betterment of Mankind, even Womankind!! THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!!

[Mike White]

wow,,, I remember dad, and even grandpa, taking tubes out of the old TV sets, then taking them to one of these testing devices! Yes not only computers, but TV's ran off of vacuum tubes like those tested by this machine. You would open up that back of your 12 inch tv, and look for tubes that didn't glow,,, some didn't glow, and you just took a hand full, and tested them on this type of machines!!

Then the crash in Roswell New Mexico, alien space craft, and this ushered in the world of transistors, good bye vacuum Tubes!! Even Velcro came from that crashed UFO,,, Aliens had it on their clothing instead of zippers... lots of technology was reversed engineered from that unfortunate crash, all for the betterment of Mankind, even Womankind!! THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!!

Lets do a little fact checking.

The Roswell incident occurred in 1947.

Hook and Loop on the scale of "Velcro" was conceived in 1941 by observing nature on the microscopic level.

Transistors related patents starting in 1921.

[MICHAEL]

Lets do a little fact checking.

The Roswell incident occurred in 1947.

Hook and Loop on the scale of "Velcro" was conceived in 1941 by observing nature on the microscopic level.

Transistors related patents starting in 1921.

LIGHTEN up Bro!! LOL If you truly want reality here you go! Strange this was after Rosewell... (

One lovely summer day in 1948, a Swiss amateur-mountaineer and inventor decided to take his dog for a nature hike. The man and his faithful companion both returned home covered with burrs, the plant seed-sacs that cling to animal fur in order to travel to fertile new planting grounds. The man neglected his matted dog, and with a burning curiosity ran to his microscope and inspected one of the many burrs stuck to his pants. He saw all the small hooks that enabled the seed-bearing burr to cling so viciously to the tiny loops in the fabric of his pants. George de Mestral raised his head from the microscope and smiled thinking, "I will design a unique, two-sided fastener, one side with stiff hooks like the burrs and the other side with soft loops like the fabric of my pants. I will call my invention 'velcro' a combination of the word velour and crochet. It will rival the zipper in its ability to fasten."

Mestral's idea met with resistance and even laughter, but the inventor 'stuck' by his invention. Together with a weaver from a textile plant in France, Mestal perfected his hook and loop fastener. By trial and error, he realized that nylon when sewn under infrared light, formed tough hooks for the burr side of the fastener. This finished the design, patented in 1955. The inventor formed Velcro Industries to manufacture his invention. Mestral was selling over sixty million yards of Velcro per year. Today it is a multi-million dollar industry.

Not bad for an invention based on Mother Nature.


In the mid 1940’s a team of scientists working for Bell Telephone Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, were working to discover a device to replace the then present vacuum tube technology. Vacuum tubes were the only technology available at the time to amplify signals or serve as switching devices in electronics. The problem was that they were expensive, consumed a lot of power, gave off too much heat, and were unreliable, causing a great deal of maintenance. Vacuum Tube

Bardeen, Brattain and ShockleyThe scientists that were responsible for the 1947 invention of the transistor were: John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley. Bardeen, with a Ph.D. in mathematics and physics from Princeton University, was a specialist in the electron conducting properties of semiconductors. Brattain, Ph.D., was an expert in the nature of the atomic structure of solids at their surface level and solid-state physics. Shockley, Ph.D., was the director of transistor research for Bell Labs.

The First Transistor Their original patent name for the transistor was: “Semiconductor amplifier; Three-electrode circuit element utilizing semiconductive materials.” In 1956, the group was awarded the Noble Prize in Physics for their invention of the transistor. In 1977, John Bardeen was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

References: •Interactive Transistor Exhibit by PBS

[MICHAEL]

UFO's

from where ever, be it this galaxy, or one of the other Billions that have been seen so far with our new technologies,,,, , or even
aliens coming from another dimension! These dimension are now being discussed in physics!!

THINGS just might be Stranger then ONE can EVEN imagine! What is reality?

Do you Believe in the evidence that 1000's of witnesses have come forward with! Creditable ones like astronauts, Pilots, even presidents! Radar has tracked them along with visuals.... is it not easy to believe when you look at the ancient City's, and the pyramids, Easter island,,, stones weighing over 200 tons, that would be a HUGE issue to lift today, might just have been with the use of ET's!!

Do you really think that some of the stones in Egypt were hoisted into place with wood blocks, and primitive ropes??

We don't know to this day HOW they did this!

They didn't even have steel, then! Bronze was the only metal used in making weapons ect... Not a strong metal to do battle with,, as the Romans proved to them!! (
Having been a Iron Worker, putting cranes together, and having made some huge lifts around town, believe me THEY DIDN"T Put up those monuments together THEMSELFS!! NO WAY!! I could give many examples of over 200,000 ton objects all over the world that were erected and constructed by primitive people.

technology has made quantum leaps since the mid 40s,,, Have we been assisted by ET's???? I think so, WHO ever, or What EVER they are!



Could they be here Mike,,, living maybe in the woods, hidden from view, but making contributions to US,,,, (:?)

[rv driver]

wow,,, I remember dad, and even grandpa, taking tubes out of the old TV sets, then taking them to one of these testing devices! Yes not only computers, but TV's ran off of vacuum tubes like those tested by this machine. You would open up that back of your 12 inch tv, and look for tubes that didn't glow,,, some didn't glow, and you just took a hand full, and tested them on this type of machines!!

Then the crash in Roswell New Mexico, alien space craft, and this ushered in the world of transistors, good bye vacuum Tubes!! Even Velcro came from that crashed UFO,,, Aliens had it on their clothing instead of zippers... lots of technology was reversed engineered from that unfortunate crash, all for the betterment of Mankind, even Womankind!! THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!!

I remember those old tube testers. And, it's a little-known fact that the automatic pinsetter and ball return was reverse-engineered from that crash. (People are led to believe that AMF stands for American Machine and Foundry; it actually stands for Alien-made frou-frou).

[MICHAEL]

I remember those old tube testers. And, it's a little-known fact that the automatic pinsetter and ball return was reverse-engineered from that crash. (People are led to believe that AMF stands for American Machine and Foundry; it actually stands for Alien-made frou-frou).

YES,,,, yes!!! from the planet Bowula!!! I have a picture of it,,, YOU KNOW WHAT they say,,,,, a picture is worth 1000 words, (Aslan)!


Just to satisfy the skeptic's out there I have a picture I took of one! He has the ability to project a holographic image of a human form around himself while bowling here on Earth! This is The Dude,,, that on this web site... I took this picture of him while taking a dump! ((( I know,,, I KNOW,,, but its the only time their holographic image has to be shut down! It has something to do with changing power cells, and a bunch of other crap!!




you might think the thought of Iceman doing it,,,,,, STINKS.... and it DID at the time, but THE TRUTH needs to get out!


I did what I had to do,,, this just might be a picture of SOMEONE YOUR BOWLING RIGHT NEXT TO!!! They LOVE OUR BEER,,, and they love to BOWL!!



ALIENS like to BOWL, DRINK OUR BEER, and chase Women! They have none on their planet!

[MICHAEL]

this will tell your age, if you were into math, back in the early days,,, we used them up to the 60's/70s! Can you tell Ice what it is???
Don't slide out on me,,, give it a guess!! (


There was a time when electronic calculators did not yet exist. This did not stop us from doing complicated things, like going to the moon, figuring out the double helix, or designing the Boeing 747. In those days, when we needed to compute things, we used slide rules which are marvelous and beautiful instruments!
There are many pages about slide rules on the web, and you can still buy brand new slide rules (40 years old but never used, and still in their factory supplied box) in various places. The purpose of this particular and quite idiosyncratic slide rule page is to describe common scales used on slide rules, and the kind of mathematical expressions that could be evaluated with those scales.





The two images on this page show the two sides of a particular slide rule in my collection. This may be one of the fanciest and perhaps most beautiful slide rules ever made, a Faber Castell Novo Biplex 2/83 N. It's made of plastic, and has 30 scales and 11 cursor marks. The rule is about 13.5 inches long and 2.25 inches wide. You can click on the pictures and see an enlarged image, but that doesn't come close to holding the real thing in your hands. It feels heavy and solid. The slide and cursor move with silky smoothness and yet they stay in place wherever you let go of them. The lettering is crisp and detailed, and pristine! No space is wasted, but the information is not crowded either. Every scale has a purpose.

German made slide rules of that time (the late 1960s) usually come with an accessory plastic ruler. This particular slide rule has a ruler (not shown) that lists common formulas and physical data on one side. Those may be useful for slide rule calculations. However, the other side of that ruler has a detailed list and explanation of common notations in set theory! This is about as useless for slide rule calculations as a list of large mammals. Apparently this slide rule was made when the "new math" was at its zenith and Faber Castell wanted its share of the action.

The above was taken borrowed from another website,,,, he does a great job of explaining the uses! Ice used one back in the 60's, for a short time while attending School! They would be useless to me today, give me a Texas Instruments hand held led unit any day! My sliding days are over!! LOL

In fact not putting up buildings, and laying out various jobs anymore, the need for anything more complicated then fingers and toes is not needed! LOL

Hey,,,, I am RETIRED, and loving it!!

[Amyers]

this will tell your age, if you were into math, back in the early days,,, we used them up to the 60's/70s! Can you tell Ice what it is???
Don't slide out on me,,, give it a guess!! (


There was a time when electronic calculators did not yet exist. This did not stop us from doing complicated things, like going to the moon, figuring out the double helix, or designing the Boeing 747. In those days, when we needed to compute things, we used slide rules which are marvelous and beautiful instruments!
There are many pages about slide rules on the web, and you can still buy brand new slide rules (40 years old but never used, and still in their factory supplied box) in various places. The purpose of this particular and quite idiosyncratic slide rule page is to describe common scales used on slide rules, and the kind of mathematical expressions that could be evaluated with those scales.





The two images on this page show the two sides of a particular slide rule in my collection. This may be one of the fanciest and perhaps most beautiful slide rules ever made, a Faber Castell Novo Biplex 2/83 N. It's made of plastic, and has 30 scales and 11 cursor marks. The rule is about 13.5 inches long and 2.25 inches wide. You can click on the pictures and see an enlarged image, but that doesn't come close to holding the real thing in your hands. It feels heavy and solid. The slide and cursor move with silky smoothness and yet they stay in place wherever you let go of them. The lettering is crisp and detailed, and pristine! No space is wasted, but the information is not crowded either. Every scale has a purpose.

German made slide rules of that time (the late 1960s) usually come with an accessory plastic ruler. This particular slide rule has a ruler (not shown) that lists common formulas and physical data on one side. Those may be useful for slide rule calculations. However, the other side of that ruler has a detailed list and explanation of common notations in set theory! This is about as useless for slide rule calculations as a list of large mammals. Apparently this slide rule was made when the "new math" was at its zenith and Faber Castell wanted its share of the action.

The above was taken borrowed from another website,,,, he does a great job of explaining the its uses! Ice used one back in the 60's, for a short time while attending School! They would be useless to me today, give me a Texas Instruments hand held led unit any day! My sliding days are over!! LOL

Iceman what does a Ironworker need a slide rule for?