Explosions at an Ammunitions Depot Near Achinsk in eastern Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region, Russia, on 2019-August-5__ {2500×1653}4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Collapsed Victoria Pier at Colwyn Bay, Clwyd, Wales, After Storms at end of January 2017 {1200×0630}4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Exploded gun barrel on M4 Sherman Tank, Wibrin, Luxembourg Province, Belgium; - - 2048×1536.4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Stephen Kingston's Presentation of a Shockfree Mechanism for Converting Continuous Rotary Motion into Intermittent Rotary Motion.4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
A Brast Water-Main on Polesteeple Hill, Biggin Hill, Westerham, Greater London, (or Kent, Historically), England; 2017-June-9__ ; {0650×1069}4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
System of linkages & sliding-guides for tracing-out a rectangle from input of rotary motion only. Much that is redundant in constraining the kinematics is omitted: eg the vertical member could meet a sliding guide at its lower end also4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Conjugate Cams eliminate backlash and reduce overall cam stress4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
For those who've doubted (often quite correctly) the physical realisibility of some of my engine .gifs: this IS a representation of a real one: the Napier 18 cylinder 'deltic' engine used in the Class 55 railway locomotive & the Royal Navy 'Hunt' Class minesweeper.4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Alternating-Direction Drive with Almost-Square-Wave Angular-Speed Profile4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Do it instantly! ... don't stand & look! - - civil self-protection against nuclear explosion - - 1951.4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/PropagandaPosters
The Seacoast Mortar called “The Dictator” at the Siege of Petersburg 1864 [1298×913]5yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Another 'piston gyrating in some manner in circular enclosure' type positive displacement gas flowmeter.4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
The system of actuators by which the contour of NASA's 20inch supersonic wind tunnel (which this is with one side removed for maintentance) is shapen into a Laval nozzle of the desired proportions; [1000x782].4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/EngineeringPorn
A 'Starr-Edwards' Mitral Heart Valve In Acto In Situ [498×498]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Shock produced by a jet from the central black hole of the megagalaxy Centaurus A impinging upon the intergalactic medium -- [1280×0800].4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/shockwaveporn
What is known as a 'nutating disc' flowmeter ... but I'm wondering whether 'precessing disc' might not be more the accurate designation.4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Wildly bent railway tracks after the 2010 Canterbury (or Darfield) earthquake at New Zealand's South Island, of moment magnitude of 7.1 & Mercalli intensity X, at 2010-September-4__ 04:35 local time. 1024×07684yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Launching of the USS Nautilus; Groton, Connecticut, USA ; 1952-January-21_ᷤ_ ; [1024×0640].4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The Slat Machinery on the Leading-Edge of the Wing of a B747-4004yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/MachinePorn
A Planetary Gearbox for Wind Turbine Under Construction [1367×0912]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/MachinePorn
A 'Reference SE' Phonographic Record Playing Turntable [2465×1584]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/EngineeringPorn
Permafrost Rock Collapse Coast Drew Point Alaska 2018 1600×11594yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
The Punched-Card Sequence for a Jacquard Loom [1050×0700]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/ManufacturingPorn
Remains of a Taliban Car-Bomb Prematurely Gone-Off in Sar-e Pul, Afghanistan on 2019-November-27__ : Damage to 10 houses and Injury to 13 Civilians, According to Afghan Military {1024×0684}4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
An Exceptionally Precise & Thorough Model of a Marine Triple-Expansion Steam-Engine [3399×2999]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/EngineeringPorn
The Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain; by Antonio Gaudi; [1600×2199].4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/ArchitecturePorn
Is machine with no moving parts (no moving solid ones, anyway) admissible on here? A Lockwood-Hiller pulsejet engine in full-spate.4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/MachinePorn
The tip of a 'gun-drill' - used for boring gun-barrels ... or in any application in which it's required to drill into a hard substance a hole of depth very much greater than diameter [1000×0600].4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/ManufacturingPorn
The Highly Unusual Gearbox of a Napier Deltic Engine Being Assembled [0747×1000]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/ManufacturingPorn
Machine for Measuring the Universal Gravitational Constant [0640×1075]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/MachinePorn
An individual 'Triangle' of the Napier Deltic Engine [1200×0751]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/MachinePorn
Extremely rare Western Electric 'Mirrophone' - an early endless-loop recording/playback machine manufactured no later than 1944: was capable of recording about a minute of sound on 77ft of metal tape moving at 15in per second. [800×989]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/MachinePorn
Two Views of a Fischer Precision Anæroid Barometer [1500×2034]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/MachinePorn
Paro Taktsang (Dzongkha: སྤ་གྲོ་སྟག་ཚང་, or Taktsang Palphug Monastery, or The Tiger's Nest): a Himalayan Buddhist sacred site [1000×1333].4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/ArchitecturePorn
Very High Current & Voltage Rated Group-Operated Disconnect Switches [1912×1891]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/MachinePorn
Now _this is_ a reaction-vessel ... for pharmaceutical industry [1944×2592].4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/MachinePorn
Demonstration of the 'additive manufacturing' technique of RenishawTM [3264×2448].4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/ManufacturingPorn
Destruction of Section of Armour by Projectile [1024×0890]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/DestructionPorn
Bottle breaking through cavitation of the bubbles formed in the void that's created at the bottom by the inertia of the water in it as it's jolted suddenly downwards.4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/physicsgifs
University of Iowa's Simulation of the Formation of the Barringer Crater4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/physicsgifs
A Huge Stock of Train-Wheels Ready for Delivery [4032×3024]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/ManufacturingPorn
Third in a short time; so I'll leave it for a while after this ... but I couldn't keep from posting this, which is a well-decent resolution picture of a Thompson coupling: allows bends in a drive shaft without causing angular-speed variations.4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/MachinePorn
BARS (БАРС: Беспрессовая Аппаратура Высокого Давления «Разрезная Сфера») аpparatus, for the manufacture of synthetic intrinsically real diamonds. [1271×0953]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/ManufacturingPorn
Actuators of the Stator Blade Pitch-Control Mechanism of a Francis Turbine [0721×1080]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/MachinePorn
A metal evaporator: used in processes that require the deposition of a thin film of metal of precisely determined thickness. [1536×2048]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/ManufacturingPorn
Interior of the Magnolia Cotton Mill, Magnolia, Mississippi - - 1911-March - - [1900×1374]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/ManufacturingPorn
Photograph of a B720-027 skidding along the ground just before its impact with an obstruction in a crash test by NASA at Edwards Air Force Base Calfornia USA on 1984-December-1_ᷤ_ - - [1280×1024].4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/DestructionPorn
Industrial Winch with its 'Spoolguide' Mechanism Clearly Discernible [680×680]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/MachinePorn
Small Metal Parts Entering a Sintering Furnace on Metal Link Conveyor Belt [1024×0576]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/ManufacturingPorn
Bogie of Some Kind of Rail-Vehicle On the Factory Floor & Probably Not Yet Complete [1188×0890]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/ManufacturingPorn
The mass damper, featuring its ball of 660,000kg or 650long-ton, near the top of the Tapei 101 skyscraper, 509.2m or 1,671 ft tall, in Xinyi, Taipei, Taiwan.[4288×2848]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/MachinePorn
The Ritter 'Tri-Dent' Dental Station: High-Speed Electric Drill, Directional Light, & Fountain Spittoon [0760×1108]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/MachinePorn
Huge Reels of Polystyrene Foam Sheet at Factory in Chicago Awaiting Dispatch to Coffee-Cup Manufactory or Somewhere Similar [1800×1440]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/ManufacturingPorn
Visualisation of Amplitude of Wavefunction of Hydrogen Atom at the First Few Combinations of Quantum Nos4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/physicsgifs
The 90-year-old points control system in the John Street Tower at Toronto's Union Station, Toronto, Canada; [1352×0870].4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/InfrastructurePorn
A Mockup of Louis Slotin's disastrous criticality experiment of 1946-May-21_ᷤ_ , in which the slick trick with a screwdtiver he'd gotten into the habit of betrayed him to his death. 1520×11194yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Gun turret being removed by crane from the stricken USS Forrestal. The resolution of the picture is low; but I find this image extraordinarily striking. [410×508]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/DestructionPorn
90-year-old points control system in the John Street Tower of Toronto's Union Station [1352×1014]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/ElectricalEngineering
High Explosive Lenses Arranged Around a Core at Los Alamos [1163×0921]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/AtomicPorn
Showing the Pole-Pieces of an Azimuthally-Varying-Field Cyclotron Under Construction [2876×2199]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/AtomicPorn
Came-across this: probably not remarkable for this channel ... but the resolution's decent, & it's such a perfectly-formed one! [1500×1000]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/tornado
90-year-old mechanical-relay-based switching system in John Street Tower at the 'Union' railway station, Torinto, Canada [1352×1014].4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/PLC
The 'Stockholm' after its collision with the 'Andrea Doria' on 1956-July-25__ near the East Coast, south of Nantucket -- [1600×1258].4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/ShipwreckPorn
The epicentre of the 'Tunguska Event' of 1908-June-30__ , by the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, Yeniseysk Governorate, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia (Река Подкаменная Тунгуска, Енисеиская губерния, Красноярскии краи, Россия) - - [1200×0900]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/remoteplaces
Aubrey de-Grey's Unit-Distance Graph of 1585 Vertices & 7909 Edges that Proves that the Chromatic No of the Plane is Atleast 5 [909×902]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/VisualMath
Perpetuating the notion that 'Golden-Boy' is in some manner 'above' the 'swamp'.4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/ModernPropaganda
Tamanrasset, Algeria: a town pretty much at the pole-of-inaccessibility of the Sahara Desert (or at least it appears roughly so on a map). [2048×1152]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/remoteplaces
The Interior of a Howell Torpedo - Clearly Showing the Flywheel That Is the Prime-Mover of its Propulsion [3264×2448]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/weaponsystems
An Ion Thruster Being Tested by the European Space Agency [1920×1440]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/EnginePorn
Just found this C-4 Optics 4.9mm f/3.5 Hyperfisheye lens ... which, is claimed to have a field-of-view of 270° ! [1287×0836]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/Optics
This is by a huge margin the best spout I have ever used, in terms of non-dripping & precision of pouring generally: it's on a metal teapot. [3888×2916]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/FluidMechanics
This new wind turbine design is massively more efficient than (has efficiency 2.3× that of) current wind turbines ... to the extent that it's not even subject to the Betz limit (or so 'tis said!). [860×640]4yr ⋅ PerryPattySusiana ⋅ r/FluidMechanics
