MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

You're on track Ian! If you don't get this one you'll kick yourself....

[Gloria]

Is it for projecting slides onto a wall, bit like a movie camera?

[PanBiker]

Part of the mechanism of an early Baird TV?

[Tizer]

Did the `early Baird TVs' catch worms?

[Stanley]

Thank God for that! If he hadn't got it he might have gone into a decline. Yes! Well done Ian.
Sorry Gloria, you too were on track but it was a receiver, not an emitter.
Next one?

[Stanley]

What is it?

[chinatyke]

Froment made dynamometers so i am guessing this is an analyser for the charts - all I could find on Bing!

[Stanley]

That could be true China but it is not the description I have. It was for a specific purpose. You're on the right track.

[Stanley]

No offers? Have I to come clean?

[Gloria]

I have absolutely no idea. I did think at first it was a clock for clocking in pigeons, but it’s not that.

[Stanley]

I can see why you thought that. It's a hard one Gloria, I wouldn't have got it. I shan't leave it sat here for long.

[chinatyke]

Does it make holes in cards to use in a control system? Like the old punched cards but a circular format?

[Stanley]

Sorry no China. I shall wait until this afternoon and knock it on the head. Last clue, it's for analysing certain specific charts.

[Tizer]

Something to do with weather forecasting?

[Stanley]

No Peter. It's too obscure. It's in the Science Museum collections and is a ready reckoner for interpreting charts of readings analysing reinforced concrete. I know, ridiculous!
LINK

[Gloria]

Month of Sunday’s comes to mind

[Tripps]

"French instruction booklet by E. Reybaud, Marseille "

That's very close indeed to being 'spooky'. Can't say why though.

[Stanley]

You've lost me David... But then your mind is like mine, it moves in mysterious way...

[Tizer]

Lost me too!

What's going on in this photo?

[Stanley]

Building a retractable reflector dish for a space mission?

[Gloria]

Are they decommissioning at Menwith Hill.

[Tizer]

It's not at Menwith Hill Gloria. As Stanley notes, it is a reflector dish for a space mission. It's already built, so what are the two people doing and what special work will it be used for?

[Stanley]

Checking for graffiti?

[Tripps]

Intergalactic Blockbusters ?

[Tizer]

I think I'd better bring this one to a close! The photo is copied from the latest issue of Popular Astronomy magazine. It shows engineers conducting a `white light inspection' on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in the clean room at the Goddard Space Center in Maryland, USA. It is `an orbiting infrared observatory that will complement and extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope, with longer wavelength coverage and greatly improved sensitivity. The longer wavelengths enable Webb to look much closer to the beginning of time and to hunt for the unobserved formation of the first galaxies, as well as to look inside dust clouds where stars and planetary systems are forming today'. More information on the web site here: JWST