And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Back when industrial company logos were artistic and cool
You are mistaken. The guard is designed to protect the blades, not you. YOU were expected to be aware of possible dangers and act appropriately to keep yourself safe.
I was an Electrical Engineering student in the early 80s and Co-Oped (work a semester, take classes a semester, repeat) for Baltimore Gas & Electric. I was with a technician for the day out in the woods where several new massive 230kv/23kv transformers were being installed in a substation. The cooling fans on each transformer had a big cast aluminum GE logo mounted on the side, these things were a foot in diameter and hefty. The tech told me to go get one and keep it for a souvenir, because it wasn’t doing any advertising way out there in the woods. I still have that thing and treasure it as a memory of my school days.
---my brother fell and stuck his hand in one like this (Okinawa' dependent quonset hut housing' 1949). Cut a tendon, bled, stiff thumb.--- had great medical care fromAF at Kadena. There'd been a recent disturbance-the Medics were trained up.
and upside down
ReplyDeleteBeat me to it.
ReplyDeleteAhead of their time - backwards and all.
ReplyDeleteAnd look at those blades. Stamped brass or painted steel?
ReplyDeleteGo back earlier and you'll find riveted brass blades with cloth-and-rubber insulated wiring.
GE is really spelled AHole
ReplyDeleteBack when the guards offered no protection whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteYet iconic in aesthetic. Today's design is not always better.
DeleteYou are mistaken. The guard is designed to protect the blades, not you. YOU were expected to be aware of possible dangers and act appropriately to keep yourself safe.
DeleteYes, the meatball is upside down......
ReplyDeleteI was an Electrical Engineering student in the early 80s and Co-Oped (work a semester, take classes a semester, repeat) for Baltimore Gas & Electric. I was with a technician for the day out in the woods where several new massive 230kv/23kv transformers were being installed in a substation. The cooling fans on each transformer had a big cast aluminum GE logo mounted on the side, these things were a foot in diameter and hefty. The tech told me to go get one and keep it for a souvenir, because it wasn’t doing any advertising way out there in the woods. I still have that thing and treasure it as a memory of my school days.
ReplyDeleteI had one of those fans as a little child in my bedroom.
ReplyDeleteLearned quickly not to reach into that frame.
... and upside down.
ReplyDeleteCheck out Vornado's vintage metal fans. I bought one for background noise while sleeping. Can't beat the sound of a metal fan for that.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.amazon.com/Vornado-VFAN-Vintage-Circulator-Green/dp/B0002XYG9G
That fan is probably still running. The ones from China last a couple years and the magnets wear out or the bearing is shot.
ReplyDelete---my brother fell and stuck his hand in one like this (Okinawa' dependent quonset hut housing' 1949). Cut a tendon, bled, stiff thumb.--- had great medical care fromAF at Kadena. There'd been a recent disturbance-the Medics were trained up.
ReplyDeleteJack Welch, the Wall Street "hero", wrecked GE. The MBA's at Boeing have wrecked that company, too. Every company run by MBA's eventually dies.
ReplyDeleteYes, their "logic" gets ingrained in their school. Chats with an MBA I know tend to be odd when the subject of business processes comes up.
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