Where and what is this? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2023, 02:10:51 am
content: Proving that you learn something new every day, I learned today for the first time about this structure. Who knows what it is and where it is?

author: apelly
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 01, 2023, 02:46:29 am
content: I know now!Google image search is really getting better!<snigger>Newington Butts</snigger>

author: PA0PBZ
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2023, 10:21:34 am
content: That's the biggest SMD capacitor I've ever seen!

author: Rick Law
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2023, 03:30:41 pm
content: Nah... Nothing to do with capacitor.It is the biggest vertical waffle maker. Very green. During morning, you spray the waffle mix on the outside wall. By noon, the sun would have cooked it. Quality of course depends on the quality of your waffle mix, but it is very energy efficient.Optional equipment includes auto waffle-mix sprayer and auto-oriented trailer that rotates the entire trailer to follow the Sun, sold separately of course.

author: AVGresponding
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2023, 04:08:54 pm
content: I thought it was the Minecraft HQ

author: 2N3055
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2023, 04:15:59 pm
content: Michael Faraday Memorial. London..

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2023, 04:30:44 pm
content: Right: 2N3055 got it.It is in Elephant and Castle in London, and is a monument to Michael Faraday, who was born nearby.It contains an electricity substation for the London Underground, providing the DC traction supply for trains.The original concept was apparently to have been a glass pyramid with mercury arc rectifiers visible inside. That would have been coolUnfortunately it was thought that glass would invite vandalism and the glowing light show of the rectifiers would distract drivers, so they went for a shiny metal box with a disco light show instead

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2023, 04:43:28 pm
content: Quote from: 2N3055 on June 01, 2023, 04:15:59 pmMemorial, or hideous insult to the memory of a great man?

author: AVGresponding
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2023, 05:28:08 pm
content: Well, I knew who Michael Faraday was anyway, and I doubt that anyone who doesn't would see that building and think, "that reminds me of Michael Faraday". Probably sounded like a good idea in committee on a boring Friday afternoon when nobody was paying attention.

author: 2N3055
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2023, 07:02:41 pm
content: Quote from: coppice on June 01, 2023, 04:43:28 pmA Faraday cage...

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2023, 08:10:11 pm
content: Quote from: 2N3055 on June 01, 2023, 07:02:41 pmThe blurb says its stainless steel. That makes a really poor Faraday cage, so I guess that fits.

author: apelly
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 01, 2023, 08:16:16 pm
content: Quote from: IanB on June 01, 2023, 04:30:44 pmAccording to itsWikipedia pagethey chose Elephant and Castle because it was close to Faraday's birthplace; Newington Butts.Butts. It's fun to be juvenile.

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2023, 08:34:35 pm
content: Quote from: apelly on June 01, 2023, 08:16:16 pmI assume you don't get out much?

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2023, 12:01:40 am
content: There's a smoothed version too.I kid... this is actually "The Bean" in Chicago. I suppose they'll have in common, some particular resonant modes on the interior...Tim

author: themadhippy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2023, 01:22:08 am
content: Quoteyou could do an amusing tour around the uk,start in shitterton maybe have a piddle in the piddle and onwards to twat via willey, upper ramsbottom, peniston and many more amusing places

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2023, 02:29:00 am
content: Quote from: T3sl4co1l on June 02, 2023, 12:01:40 amMr. Bean Memorial?

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2023, 04:45:45 pm
content: Quote from: themadhippy on June 02, 2023, 01:22:08 amSomehow every place name along the River Piddle seems to enhance the humour of the name, for reasons I can't quite identify. Also, its Penistone, not Peniston, gateway to the Peak District. I really hope there's a gym there to help people tone up their penis.

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2023, 04:50:15 pm
content: Most memorials seem irrelevant to the person they commemorate. I used to work next tohttp://hongkongthrumyeyes.com/2014/11/15/the-charles-k-kao-auditorium-at-the-hong-kong-science-park/Was Charlie Kao especially into eggs? Is there some connexion between eggs and optical fibres?

author: themadhippy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2023, 05:01:53 pm
content: Geographical fact,Blue balls is only 8 miles from intercourse

author: Sal Ammoniac
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2023, 05:38:51 pm
content: Until it was renamed "Fugging" recently, there was a town in Austria named Fucking.

author: apelly
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 02, 2023, 08:54:48 pm
content: Quote from: IanB on June 01, 2023, 08:34:35 pm

author: themadhippy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2023, 10:08:02 pm
content: Quotesounds an ideal candidate for twinning with the german town of wankum

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2023, 10:38:49 pm
content: Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on June 02, 2023, 05:38:51 pmOh yeah, when the whole world must bow to the english language.https://www.dw.com/en/austrian-village-of-fucking-decides-to-change-its-name/a-55740967

author: Neomys Sapiens
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2023, 11:15:28 pm
content: Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on June 02, 2023, 05:38:51 pmYes. And the local brewery sold a light-coloured beer (ein Helles) named appropriately 'Fucking Hell'.

author: jonovid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2023, 11:53:46 pm
content: this