On 6/25/2017 6:45 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul
writes:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
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Absolutely, Inquiring minds need to Know. :-)
By the way the Babbage engine needs no "lectricity"
Rene

Well, you know geeks just cannot leave well enough alone.

This mockup has a power strip right next to it. Cheaters!!!

Well, the short video does show someone hand cranking it; I presume
they'd just added a motor so the inventor/constructor didn't get tired
out cranking it all day!

http://www.meccano.us/difference_eng...e_2/index.html

The video is a masterpiece. 233MB. There is no hand on the crank.
I think this one has been overclocked.

http://www.meccano.us/difference_eng...e_2/Movie2.mpg

There is a shorter (23M) video at
http://www.meccano.us/difference_eng...e_2/DSCN43.avi, which was
sufficiently captivating that I'm now going for the big one ...

I wonder when the Windows Defender scan runs on that...

(-:

Paul
John

Beautiful work, I had A few small Meccano sets when I was young, Spent
many wonderful hours designing and building stuff.

There would be no Lack of UPS power , Should be plenty of UPS type lads
hanging around that project. :-)

Rene