Without looking it up in Shorpy, let’s see if anyone can shed light on this device. Clue: it makes use of “Hertzian waves”
Is it something to do wuth the Red Cross?
No, but why do you ask?
It’s a microphone.
Am I the only one who can’t see a pic in the OP?
the link if faqed
Divine Angel said:
Am I the only one who can’t see a pic in the OP?
I can’t see it either.
Divine Angel said:
Am I the only one who can’t see a pic in the OP?
Hmm, I thought I made sure it wan’t just in my internet cache :)
>>the link if faqed
That’s it, I didn’t come here to listen to bad language.
I’ll see what I can do.
Divine Angel said:
Am I the only one who can’t see a pic in the OP?
Didn’t work for me either. Click quote and you’ll get the URL to c&p.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Didn’t work for me either. Click quote and you’ll get the URL to c&p.
http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/SHORPY_11690u1.preview.jpg
Yes…
It’s not a microphone?
OK, here it is:
No, it’s a lot more wonderful than a microphone.
DC Generator?
Bubble Car said:
No, it’s a lot more wonderful than a microphone.
Damn.
Now that I can actually see it….
A generator?
It’s a lot more hi-tech than a generator.
It’s a copy of Tesla’s free energy mechanism to make earthquakes and give free energy to millions of people.
A Brown Note generator?
Rule 303 said:
A Brown Note generator?
LOL
A water-cooled spark gap radio transmitter?
A Soviet era early orgasmatron?
>>>A Soviet era early orgasmatron?
I’ll go with answer, now where can I get one? and emma?
Alexanderson alternator?
A device to reanimate Lenin or possibly Stalin
A Herzian wave generator that is sychronised with the human brain so that anyone in the vicinity is frozen into a state of immobility, resembling a statue.
OK, it’s severely unlikely that anyone will guess correctly, partly because what we see here apparently is indeed mostly the generator thingy needed to power the device :)
Here’s the inventor, Bernocchi, at the controls of the machine itself:
“Aha”, I hear you say, and you’re right. It’s an early version of the fax machine. Says Shorpy:
Turin, Italy, circa 1912. “Bernocchi (left) and wireless iconograph.” The inventor Francesco de Bernocchi and his fax-like device, which by means of “Hertzian waves” was said to facilitate the “exact wireless transmission of messages, sketches, autographs, shorthand and other signs, with a secrecy hitherto unattained.” Bain News Service glass negative.
OP pitcher, full size:
morrie said:
A Herzian wave generator that is sychronised with the human brain so that anyone in the vicinity is frozen into a state of immobility, resembling a statue.
Nah… They had one of those on a documentary I saw about cross dressing aliens living in a mansion on Earth. Didn’t look anything like that.
Bubble Car said:
OK, it’s severely unlikely that anyone will guess correctly, partly because what we see here apparently is indeed mostly the generator thingy needed to power the device :)
Is there any part of what we saw in the original picture that is not generator thingy?
Bubblecar is losing it, I put it down to diesel fume addiction from bike riding, you see a lot of it today.
It manifests itself in several ways the main two being chronic unfounded rage at car drivers and pedestrians and lying in Mystery Gadget threads.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar is losing it, I put it down to diesel fume addiction from bike riding, you see a lot of it today.
It manifests itself in several ways the main two being chronic unfounded rage at car drivers and pedestrians and lying in Mystery Gadget threads.
You may have a point, except that Bubblecar tends to don his Edwardian apparel and cycle the lonely, open backroads of the Midlands down to the local cemetary or historical bridges, when he isn’t hitting up his local purveyor of victuals for cheesey snacks and booze.
i thought it was some device to make pasta