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    New Pictures from an E-cycling Adventure

    The other day I mentioned a cool E-cycle pickup I did last week. I met an engineer who worked at the UC Berkeley Space Laboratory and the Cyclotron at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He gave me a few boxes of stuff collecting dust in his closets and I've been going through it over the past few days. Lots of cool stuff for history buffs in there. My favorite item was a pamphlet from 1959 produced by the General Electric Missile and Space Department -- it summarized data regarding moon and planetary orbits.

    Here's a link to some updated pictures.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/48865091@N04/

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    That is some cool stuff. Do you have a macro lens on your camera to take such pictures? Some of that stuff would end up on ebay for me.

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    Thanks for posting pictures, neat stuff!
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    Very cool! When I get home tonight I'll look. I'm positive I have a '69 Kennedy 1/2 for you!
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    Thanks for posting those EM....what an amazing find. Keep us posted .

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    The red metal city pic. look to me like copper wire clamps
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    Impressive score man!

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    Thank you again for all the nice comments.
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    I know nothing about my camera. I just place the lens really close to the object. Zoom doesn't seem to work well.

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    Thanks! I'm determined to find a 1969 in a coin roll. My pre '71 Kennedy hit rate is about 0.2%, so it will take a while.

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    Thank you for info about the copper wire clamps -- I made the edit.
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    As I continue to explore these boxes, I keep finding new treasures -- it's kind of like disassembling a Matryoshka doll. I think I found the coolest treasure of all and I went a little crazy taking lots of pictures. It's a custom sun sensor designed and built at the Berkeley Space Lab in 1987. The engineering design documents for the base plate were included in the box. I'm not sure if it was ever used or if it was simply an experimental prototype. I'll need to contact the engineer who gave it to me to see if he knows the history.
    Here's the updated link:
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    I more or less completed taking pictures of the highlights from the boxes. There's more stuff, but most of the rest involves repeats or stuff that's not as photogenic.

    It's hard to come away from this tiny snapshot of materials from a single academic space laboratory without an appreciation for the role of NASA etc. in fostering growth and development of the international manufacturing conglomerate.

    This collection of random laboratory objects provides a snapshot of the 20th century military industrial complex. I make no judgements about said complex; I merely note how thoroughly and extensively the dollars were spread around. It put plenty of engineers to work, that much is sure.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/48865091@N04/

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    Thanks for all of these pictures.


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