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Technology!

Spencer microscope, ca. 1849-1859.
One of the first precision microscopes made in America. Before, such things were imported from Europe.
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Singer sewing machine - 31K32.
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Singer Centennial Featherweight electric sewing machine.
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Sewing Machine, patented by Issac singer, 1851.

One of the first such pieces of home technology.
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National Broadcasting Company microphone used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to broadcast radio addresses (his "fireside chats") in the 1930s.
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Morse-Vail Telegraph Key, 1844-1845, from one of the first telegraph lines.
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Kodak Camera, 1888, loaded with a 100 picture roll of flexible film. Not glass negative images.
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Alexander Graham Bell.
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Top of the notch as usual, Bat, but you're not quite with the times.
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>>220427
Well, that's how I roll.
But feel free to post more contemporary gizmos.
I like your picture of the Large Hardon Collider (LHC) particle accelerator and collider located at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland.
More LHC info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
Pic: It's magnet in a tunnel.
http://www.interactions.org/imagebank/search_or.php?keywords=LHC&offset=65&limit=5
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Light mountain Burt solar transit by W&LE Gurley.

Find more at
http://www.uzes.net/InstrumentFinalClass.htm
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Plain Table Alidade, Pre-1865 USCS pattern, by Buff & Berger.
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Railroad Compass, Single Vernier by W&LE Gurley.
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17-inch Wye level, Early American pattern by Wm. J. Young.
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Solar transit, Smith solar unit, by Young & Sons.
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Wet Mining Transit Auxiliary scope, by C.L. Berger.
>> Anonymous
Awesome. Moar!
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Solar Transit, Saegmuller type by A. Lietz Co.
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Solar Transit, USGLO Model-A by Buff & Buff.
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Cradle Theodolite with geared vertical limb by M. Berge.
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I dunno...
I just like this old stuff.

Surveyor's Transit, an early transit design by Wm. Schmolz.
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>>220270

You don't happen to have a hi-res pic of the Antikythera Mechanism in your apparent endless supply of images relating to all things ever, do you?
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>>220544
Well, not a very /hr/ picture, but here it is:
Greek antikythera mechanism from around 150 BC; a mechanical astronomical position calculator.
Too bad it was not in better condition. Someone fished it out of the Mediterranean, out by Crete or something.
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And here's a modern reproduction.

Any mechanical clockwork mechanism that does anything, made more than 2100 years ago is impressive in my book.
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By the island of Antikythera, which is near Crete.

Thanks for that, figured if someone here would have it, it would be you :)
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Here's an X-ray of a large fragment of the calculator.
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>>220563
no fucking way
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How about some music players?

Edison tin foil phonograph from 1879.
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Columbia graphophone, 1897.
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Edison Oak Standard cylinder phonograph.
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Spectroscope, from about 1920.
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im liking this thread...any old tech that does nothing..but looks really complicated?
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Bump for awesomeness, keep it alive until I get the time to download all of them, mkay?
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Not an emblem of technology, but a splendid example of a Victorian marble top table.

I didn't want to make a new thread on antique furniture.
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>>220659
You can use a program to save all the images in a thread (or select what you want) with the "not4chan Grab Extension"

A Firefox extension to help grab images on not4chan or similar image boards.
http://www.geocities.com/rtmanga/grab.html
Pic: Power house mechanic working on steam pump, by Lewis Hine, 1920