How the Geneva Drive (the mechanical step that makes the second hand on a clock work by turning constant rotation into intermittent motion) works.
Oh snap!
As an engineer, this makes me happy.
If only one loop of this gif were equal to one second…
easy peasy
watching this while listening to a clock ticking
is the best decision i have ever made
Man this is rather fascinating.
gearlike devices that are fascinating in their bullshittery are many and sundry
Wait, wait, wait, they bitched about trench guns causing unnecessary suffering while setting people on fire with flamethrowers?
Blackjack Pershing and German diplomat (1918 colorized)
This will never not be funny.
In September 1918, the German government issued a diplomatic protest, complaining that the Model 97 Trench Gun was illegal because “it is especially forbidden to employ arms, projections, or materials calculated to cause unnecessary suffering” as defined in the 1907 Hague Convention respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land. When the Americans rejected this, the German high command then threatened to execute any soldier caught with a Trench Gun or even just Trench Gun shells. General Pershing replied that, henceforth, any Germans caught with flamethrowers or saw-bladed bayonets would be lined up and shot.
They also game them to the hicks cowboys and rednecks so they could shoot grenades out of the sky like pigeons and if that isn’t some of the funniest shit you can imagine you’re not imagining it right
Oh it’s quite the opposite of a warcrime. As a matter of fact, soldiers on the opposite end don’t feel a God Damn thing.
Imagine being a German soldier in a trench, gathering all your courage to pop up just long enough to throw a grenade at the enemy, just to hear it get blasted out of the air and someone shout “Nice Shootin’, Cleetus.”
Well, there was an American who won a medal or two who gunned down something like 6 Germans charging at him - remembering how you shoot birds from back home - shooting them in such a way that the others do not SEE anyone going down (so he shot the one furthest away, stopping them from running towards hm and getting down to actually shoot him).
He later went on to describe the entire event as “a turkey shoot”.
That would be Sargent Alvin York
Six Germans did charge him with bayonets after he ran out of ammo for his rifle while attacking a German machinegun nest. He used his 1911 and killed all six. York and a couple others took 130 German prisoners and marched them to American lines. You’re definately right in that you pick off the last bird and work your way up to the first.
It is also a trick I learned growing up, shooting birds in a tree. Shoot the one standing on the lowest branch, the rest will if you are lucky not notice it dropping.
In the Draft of 1917, a man from Tennessee.
Overseas to the trenches he went, from the land of the free.
Into war he brought he two things along, a rifle and his faith.
Joined the ranks as a private assigned to 328th.
Please tell me that you meant to have that be in tune with “Big Iron” and you came up with those lyrics all on your own because that is legendary.
The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Marcus Licinius Crassus. During fires, they would arrive and Crassus would offer to buy the burning building from the owner at a very low price. They would put out the fire if the owner agreed, but if they refused then they would simply let it burn. – WTF Fun Facts
The progression of the Knight. It’s hard not to admire the intricacy of this armor. It’s easy to see that these men were practically walking tanks on the battlefield.
These were all painted by the same artist, Graham Turner, for various Osprey titles. Osprey is an excellent way to acquire an inexpensive yet well-researched and well-illustrated military history library.
Not as much as the contents of his fridge are stressing his heart out.
marry him quick before he dies or you dont get the inheretence
