http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en?newrequest=yes&protocol=http:
The ultimate searchable online European Train Time Table, all countries included, available in 9 languages.
Planning a journey from Manchester to Zagreb, Narvik to Madrid, Brindisi to Gdansk?
– look no further.
A classic example of German efficiency.
Wunderbar!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine
“On Mr. Babbage’s new machine for calculating and printing mathematical and astronomical tables…”
On this day in 1822, Charles Babbage proposed the use of a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
Some 186 years later and a replica of one of Babbage’s machines can be found in a Virtual World:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Highlands/230/126/38
Second Life Difference Engine created by Independent State of Caledon resident Paul Churchill
see also: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Mr._Babbage%27s_new_machine_for_calculating_and_printing_mathematical_and_astronomical_tables
http://seorant.ath.cx/police/ladybird.html
Note how this satirical version is so much like the original which I scanned…
Many thanks though to Mrs Trellis, of North Wales, who pointed out this obvious blunder … the date (1974) is 3 years after decimalisation, so the price tag of 2/6 is fake – shame.
…and here is the original.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/31/discovery_launch/
From the page:
“For those of you not up to speed on space toilets, the ASU failed on 21 May following a “loud noise” – apparently the failure of the air/water separator pump. Despite the ISS crew’s best attempts at DIY, they were obliged to request an emergency plumbing space-lift to tackle the problem.”
Well I never, good excuse for a nice pic though…
