Originally the diary of 4 months spent in Antarctica working as a documentary film sound recordist, this blog has evolved into an online repository for the thoughts, travels and trivia of the writer Richard Fleming. For McMurdo Station, Antarctica, and polar exploration, see August through December of '06. Currently you are likely to find in these pages chronicles of my actual and literary meanderings, as well as notes on my many other passions. Also, did I mention I wrote a book?
9/24/2006
Angela, you look hungry
Angela, two views from: Vehicles of McMurdo
Whut the fizzuck? from: Vehicles of McMurdo
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2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
That is a mobile phase-two Watt steam engine--as modified and improved in 1771 in a livery stable on Clydeside with the fitting of an ice-crushing intake valve. It is quite rare to find one these days, and yours is the first recored sighting south of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
We can only praise anonymous 17:30 for their historical insight, attention to technical detail and comprehensive assessment of scarcity and geographic range of the Watt engine; this is precisely the sort of information we thirst for here at antarcticiana.
2 comments:
That is a mobile phase-two Watt steam engine--as modified and improved in 1771 in a livery stable on Clydeside with the fitting of an ice-crushing intake valve. It is quite rare to find one these days, and yours is the first recored sighting south of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
We can only praise anonymous 17:30 for their historical insight, attention to technical detail and comprehensive assessment of scarcity and geographic range of the Watt engine; this is precisely the sort of information we thirst for here at antarcticiana.
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