Seen in Print

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I remember seeing these packages at gas stations.

The AD-X2 Controversy
https://youtu.be/ve6b6wrGbdo?si=IFDAK6SOWoVztmRK

Showing my age but can also remember this as well as the Warshawsky/JC Whitney catalogs. It always impressed me all the fuel saving devices you could install on your car that if you put them all in you could make gas. Spark plugs, air filters, water injectors……..


Pete

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Yeah, the Whitney catalog was a car guys bible back in the 60's. Took the place of the big Christmas catalogs from the 50's. Remember the add on whitewalls you slipped in better the black wall tire and wheel? Installed right they lasted as long as the tires.

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I think Whitney went out of business because they were in debt to the company that printed their catalogues. Seems like you got one about every 5 minutes!

I had one titled Warshawsky and company, which I wish I had kept!

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I think Whitney went out of business...

J.C. Whitney never went out of business. Many Chapter 11 Bankruptcy reorganizations later... carparts sells JC Whitney brand parts.
https://www.carparts.com/jc-whitney?utm ... paign=shop

I am reminded of Lionel Trains checkered history. Today the Lionel brand is owned by Guggenheim Partners 80% and Neil Young 20%.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel,_LLC

--NOTE--
The Wikipedia article originally had this text, "The Martin Davis Investment Group (Wellspring) bought Lionel Trains, Inc. in ... Lionel's Chapter 11 plan also called for private equity firm Guggenheim Partners ..."
Somewhere along the editing process, Guggenheim got deleted from the text but not from the owners statement.


Guggenheim Investment Management LLC, provided much of the new money necessary for Lionel’s successful exit from bankruptcy.
Reference: https://cs.trains.com/ctt/f/95/p/126866/1431110.aspx

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While researching the Southern Railroad I ran across an image of a Norfolk Southern train using the old Southern Railroad bridge that crosses the Cumberland River at Burnside, Kentucky. The Google Streets camera car is in the image. How did the camera take a picture of its car?

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I hate to have to make this post, but here we are.
Over the years we seen many of you come out over and over again. We have watched many of your children grow up here, and I hold SO many of my best memories at EnterTRAINment.

We are now in the position to announce that we will be closing in January 2025.

“It is a sad day for us all,” said EnterTRAINment Junction owner Don Oeters, who created the train-themed family attraction 16 years ago following his long-held dream of building the world’s largest indoor train display for the public to enjoy.

“This has been a labor of love for so many years and a lot of really good people have put their hearts and souls into this project to make it the best family attraction possible. I’ve tried to find a person or a group to buy the business for over 2 years with no takers. To have to close it all down is a real heartache for me.”

“We are announcing our closing intentions now,” said Oeters, “so that the everyone has six more months to enjoy EnterTRAINment Junction’s many offerings before we close the doors. Those folks who love EnterTRAINment Junction and want to visit again, have a chance to do so. And for those who have always wanted to see EnterTRAINment Junction, but haven’t… well, we wanted to give them an opportunity to visit before closing our doors as well. Of course, already booked birthday parties and other group events scheduled for the remainder of the year will go on as planned”, Oeters said.

EnterTRAINment Junction’s most popular events – Everything Thomas in August, Jack-O-Lantern Junction – the kids’ no-fear Halloween celebration - in the fall and Christmas at the Junction in December -- will go on as planned
and offer the public a “last-chance opportunity” to experience these popular events one more time or perhaps for the first time.

Passholders have received emails regarding their memberships. A specific closing date in January 2025, has not yet been determined.

--Posted Jun 19, 2024, 11:06 AM (7 days ago) by Larry Smith who received it from Fred Soward in Div. 8.

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Sad to report the passing of Kinky Friedman, leader of Kinky Friedman and his Texas Jewboys. (see Wikipedia for details)

Rich

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OK Wayne, what is this Frankenstein looking piece equipment? Very interesting to see the lengths creative people went to accomplish something before the advent of technology, they helped to promote.

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Frankenstein looking piece equipment?

The Frankenstein looking piece of equipment is a battery called a Standard Cell.
Why is it called a standard Cell? Because it is a Physical Representation of the Volt.
Theoretically, a standard cell has a voltage of 1.0183 V at 20 °C (32 °F.)
For other temperatures, you must calculate the voltage using this equation"

Were E(t) is the voltage at temperature t.

We had three standard cells when I started working for Hughes Aircraft Metrology in Tucson, Arizona.
One went to the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) once a year for comparison to their (NBS) Standard Cells.
The other two were compared to the standard cell that went to NBS and the two were used in turn to verify our voltage calibrators' accuracy.
The voltage calibrators were used to verify the accuracy of all voltmeters used by Hughes Aircraft in Tucson.

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That is pretty amazing when you think about it. It looks like old design, but maybe not. Very interesting that it is/was used to calibrate volt meters of later design.

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That is pretty amazing when you think about it. It looks like old design, but maybe not. Very interesting that it is/was used to calibrate volt meters of later design.

History of the Standard Cell

In 1893 the International Electrical Congress meeting in Chicago chose the Clark cell, a cell devised by Latimer Clark in 1872 as the standard of emf (the Volt) to which they assigned a value of 1.434 international volts at 15 °C. The Clark cell and this value for it were legalized as the standard of emf in the United States by an act of Congress, July 12, 1894.

During the years 1893 to 1905 the standard cell devised by Edward Weston was found to have many advantages over the Clark cell and was officially adopted in 1908 at the London International Conference on Electrical Units and Standards as the world standard for of emf. This London Conference went further and adopted provisionally 1.0184 V as the emf of the Weston Normal Cell at 20 °C. Later, after new Weston Normal Cells had settled in, the value of a Standard Cell was redefined as 1.018273 V.

At one time the best standards for voltage were electrochemical cells (Standard Cells). But no matter how carefully such cells were fabricated, their voltages inevitably drifted from month to month. In July 1972, the United States redefined its working volt in terms of the Josephson effect, predicted in 1962 by Brian Josephson, a graduate student at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

The Josephson Junction voltage standards are expensive and difficult to use. So, about the same time, Hewett Packard and Fluke came up with Zener Voltage references to replace the Standard Cell. They had 1, 1.018, 1.019 volt outputs (the Fluke also had a 10 volt output.)

A used Fluke voltage reference can be had for around $2,000 on eBay. If you just want a zener voltage reference to calibrate your own voltmeters, you can get one from Amazon, based on the AD584KH zener reference, for $22.96.
https://www.amazon.com/AD584KH-Precisio ... d_source=1

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