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Wet Desert: September 2010
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010. Orthe Red Centre in the Outback desert in the geographical middle of Australia? Links to this post. Uluru (at Ayers Rock), sunset the night before, and then the following day in the rain. Click photos for larger size. Links to this post. Wednesday, September 15, 2010. Red Centre Wet Centre. Photos when I find a PC with a USB port. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Wet; not dry. Here are some pictures. I'm an engineer and genealogist and collector and publisher...
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Wet Desert: April 2011
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Thursday, April 7, 2011. Australian rats scurry to desert en masse after rains. A mass migration of rats is under way into the inland deserts of Australia. After a run of high rainfall seasons, scientists say. Click for BBC story. Archive picture from BBC website]. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Wet; not dry. Here are some pictures. Eventually there will be more pictures at MikeAndKaren.org. View my complete profile. Blogroll; roll of blogs. Manual of Wireless Telegraphy 1915.
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Wet Desert: Some
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010. Uluru (at Ayers Rock), sunset the night before, and then the following day in the rain. Click photos for larger size. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Wet; not dry. We went to the Outback, to Alice Springs and Uluru and Kata Tjuta, where we expected dry weather. You know, desert. Instead we got rain most of the five days we were there. It was amazing. Here are some pictures. Eventually there will be more pictures at MikeAndKaren.org. View my complete profile.
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Wet Desert: Red Centre Wet Centre
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010. Red Centre Wet Centre. We booked a vacation in the red centre of Australia, the outback where Alice Springs stands athwart the railroad lines and the rock Ulurul reaches for the sky. It's winter, but Oz has been dry. Not this week. Our planned base walk around the rock had to be cancelled when we couldn't walk through the floods over the path. Vast waterfalls cascade down the face of the rock iself. Is it the wet desert, or is it Hawaii? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Mike's Rail Blog: June 2012
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Thursday, June 21, 2012. A back-cover ad from the December, 1926 issue of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. Click to make it bigger. Wouldn't that make a great poster? Links to this post. Monday, June 4, 2012. Scenic Railway, Rio de Janiero, 1911. Links to this post. Friday, June 1, 2012. The Last Steam Locomotive Through Greensboro. Photo taken in Greensboro, NC, probably in 1958, by Irvin R. "Buck" Squires, and used by permission of the Squires family. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Last Steam ...
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Mike's Rail Blog: January 2013
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013. Edison's Electric Locomotive: 1880. I was unaware that Thomas Edison had built an electric railroad at his Menlo Park, NJ, research lab in 1880. Growing out of his work on electric motors, it ran for 90 rods and presumably contributed to the developments which would make electric traction a competitive technology. This short 1909 article from POPULAR ELECTRICITY. As always, click an image to see a bigger version. Links to this post. Friday, January 25, 2013. Links to this post.
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Old High Tech: Two More Early Vacuum Cleaners
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Words and pictures about the weird and wonderful technology that changed our lives in the past. Just because it isn't Web 3.14 doesn't mean that it wasn't neat, fabulous, and the focus of a million technogeek fankids. Tuesday, January 29, 2013. Two More Early Vacuum Cleaners. Also from early issues of POPULAR ELECTRICITY. Something that looks a little bit more like we would expect today, the Duntley could be picked up and carried by your maid. From the May, 1909 issue. Elizabeth J. Neal. Something that l...
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Wet Desert: Foreseeable Consequence
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Thursday, April 7, 2011. Australian rats scurry to desert en masse after rains. A mass migration of rats is under way into the inland deserts of Australia. After a run of high rainfall seasons, scientists say. Click for BBC story. Archive picture from BBC website]. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Wet; not dry. Here are some pictures. Eventually there will be more pictures at MikeAndKaren.org. View my complete profile. Blogroll; roll of blogs. Manual of Wireless Telegraphy 1915.
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Picture History: Wild Nature from the Window of Your Passing Train
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Interesting images I've found. Now, you've found them, too. Friday, January 25, 2013. Wild Nature from the Window of Your Passing Train. Go West, and see the wild. Well, maybe not quite from the train as you pass by, but something to look for when you go hunting out there. Artwork by H. W. Hansen; ran in the May 1907 issue of the CENTURY MAGAZINE. This ad for travel on the Southern Pacific Railway, through Oregon and California, is from the eBay catalog listings of seller americanartarchives.
