Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 12 May 2020, 21:20
I honestly don't know. 
Can I be allowed to give a clue?
Was that a yes?
The stones were originally in an engineering works.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 13 May 2020, 02:06
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 13 May 2020, 07:01
Stanley I think they have spent enough time on the treadmill. The punishment is compulsory viewing of this You Tube clip. Start at about 4 minutes into it to save some time. Ellenroad.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 13 May 2020, 07:21
You're too soft Ken! That Gloria deserves a bit of suffering every now and again 
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 13 May 2020, 07:45
Just watched it, very interesting.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 May 2020, 03:37
I don't think she was amused.....
My mate Norman was demolishing the foundry Gloria and I persuaded him to deliver the stones free. That was where the Whitelees engine was built in 1842.
My mate Norman was demolishing the foundry Gloria and I persuaded him to deliver the stones free. That was where the Whitelees engine was built in 1842.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 May 2020, 07:30
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 May 2020, 08:22
I didn't really expect Gloria or anybody else to guess it purely from the image of the stones. It was more of an opportunity to put the steaming open day in a slot that would be followed by more people. Sneaky aren't I
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 May 2020, 08:23
I meant at me pulling your leg Gloria. I shall have a think.....
What can you tell me about this.....
I shall have a think.....What can you tell me about this.....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 May 2020, 08:32
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 May 2020, 08:46
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 May 2020, 11:10
Neither of those Tiz but you do well to look to antiquity. I'd like the name it goes by as well please.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 May 2020, 03:42
I think you need a clue! Think ancient Alexandria.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 May 2020, 07:30
It's worked on a system of pulleys.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 May 2020, 08:14
Lifting / lowering Harbour boom chains?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 May 2020, 08:24
Sorry, not there yet. Think of a famous resident of Ancient Alexandria.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 May 2020, 09:51
Heron??
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 May 2020, 11:31
Getting closer, he spent a lot of time in his bath...
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 May 2020, 11:41
The Claw of Archimedes?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 May 2020, 12:08
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 May 2020, 14:38
It was your clue Stanley, that gave it to me. It was a good object.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 17 May 2020, 02:34
Try this one.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 17 May 2020, 08:26
Sticking with Alexandria it's Heron's steam engine.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 17 May 2020, 08:49
It's an aeolipile as invented by Hero of Alexandria (I don't know why Gloria and Panbiker call him Heron).
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 17 May 2020, 09:06
alexandria heron from www.britannica.com
Heron of Alexandria, also called Hero, (flourished c. ad 62, Alexandria, Egypt), Greek geometer and inventor whose writings preserved for posterity a knowledge of the mathematics and engineering of Babylonia