Wednesday, January 23, 2008
sleeve gun
.32 caliber, 2 1/2-inch barrel. Mounting plate marked: Patented E. Carlstrom Chicago/4852 S. May St./U.S.A. Blued finish. Mechanism mounted on leather slab with elastic wrist and arm bands. Wire triggers release.
squeeze gun for people with messed up hands
The handle is lengthened in the prolongation of the weapon and the device of trigger consists of a metal bar (which runs over the entire length under the aforementioned handle) to press to draw. The weapon can draw only in double action by closing again the hand, the traditional aiming is impossible from where removal of its bodies (rise and handlebar), the barrel is lengthened
''Femme Fatale'' Ring Pinfire Revolver
measures 1 7/16-inches in overall length; 7-shot cylinder, approximately .06 caliber pinfire; 5/6-inch long round and smoothbore cylinder, operating on pepperbox principle (without barrel); tiny hammer cocked with fingernail, tiny knurled trigger pushed inward to fire
another one
Thursday, January 10, 2008
the cock and the pearl
by Gustav Mossa - check the draping cloth over his sword and the neat boot attachments
the Z machine
Z machine at the Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico - x-ray machine which has produced plasma hotter than the core of the sun
glove map of london
George Shove created these to help visitors find their way around during the Great Exhibition of 1851
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