NO TECH MAGAZINE https://www.notechmagazine.com We believe in progress and technology Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:27:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9 Knapp Double Wheel Generator https://www.notechmagazine.com/2015/09/knapp-double-wheel-generator.html Tue, 08 Sep 2015 18:00:10 +0000 http://www.notechmagazine.com/?p=2222 knapp double wheel generatorFound at Live Auctioneers. Description: “Painted cast iron original double wheel generator to provide the power to Knapp model trains and trolleys.  In talking to various collectors we feel this is the first Knapp toy train generator to have surfaced and it is in near perfect state. The top of the motor sports the Knapp name plate; this piece appears in the 1908 Knapp catalog 16″ l. , 12″ t.”

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]]> How To Build Your Own Industrial Civilization https://www.notechmagazine.com/2011/05/how-to-build-your-own-industrial-civilization.html Sun, 15 May 2011 23:44:30 +0000 http://notechmagazine.com/2011/05/how-to-build-your-own-industrial-civilization.html how to build your own industrial civilization“The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts. Key features of the GVCS: Open Source – Low-Cost – Modular – User-Serviceable – DIY – Closed-Loop Manufacturing – High Performance – Heirloom Design – Flexible Fabrication.”

“A modern, comfortable lifestyle relies on a variety of efficient Industrial Machines. If you eat bread, you rely on an Agricultural Combine. If you live in a wood house, you rely on a Sawmill. Each of these machines relies on other machines in order for it to exist. If you distill this complex web of interdependent machines into a reproduceable, simple, closed-loop system, you get these 50 machines.”

The GVCS is a work-in-progress. See the wiki, the blog and (the best introduction) the movie.

Related: How to make everything ourselves: open modular hardware.

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Locomobiel Stoommachine is a Dutch site, but it is worth clicking around because of the quantity and the quality of pictures and drawings of all possible steam engines and their applications. (note 02/2011: site has been moved and renamed).

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Picture gallery at the Spark Museum.

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A gallery of illustrations.

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