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3D animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwU6m9tjM2A&t=74s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwU6m9tjM2A&t=74s
by 3by7 2y ago
3D animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwU6m9tjM2A&t=74s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwU6m9tjM2A&t=74s
- bragr 2y agoThe power transmission to the spoons remind me of the rod line powered jack pumps in early oil fields. You can still find 100 year old wells with that kind of power distribution but they are rare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfTfmGIVl4c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfTfmGIVl4c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-k_Ip8RgIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-k_Ip8RgIA https://www.petroleumhistory.org/OilHistory/pages/Central%20Power/centralpower.html https://www.petroleumhistory.org/OilHistory/pages/Central%20...
- resolutebat 2y agoWhoah. That's an excellent video, and it shows how this was far more complicated than the simplified diagram in Wikipedia: the device was over 300 meters long!
- riffraff 2y agoIndeed, the diagram (and the wiki text too?) don't make it clear how many towers were involved, so it looks a more complicated solution that would be needed.