When I was a piffling kid , my favorite Word were those full of illustrations that showed the guts of airplane , ships , engine , space vehicle and all variety of machinery . They still are . Machines ’ entrails are fascinating . Devoid of any skin , you ca n’t do anything but wonder at human cleverness .
Here you have some amazing and often surprising examples , including the photo above . What the hell is that Terminator about to toss off someone , anyway ?
You’ve seen it more thana hundred timesfrom the outside. This is how it looks inside: the space shuttle’s liquid hydrogen tank.
Image byNASA / NASA
A barebones Saturn IB S-IB stage without its tanks and eight H-1 engines, which produced a combined thrust of 1,600,000 pounds.
Photo : NASA / Michoud Assembly Facility
The crazy guts of the Planck Observatory, a spaceship built by the European Space Agency to “observe the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background.” And eat humans.
Image byEuropean Space Agency ( ESA)/Stephane Corvaja
A real life cutaway: the engine room of the MV Tricolor, a Norwegian ship that sunk in the English Channel carrying carrying 3,000 automobiles.
mental image by tricolorsalvage.com ( defunct ) viaThe Atlanticand Marine Nationale / Getty Images
The guts of a Computer Tomography scanner. This thing canspin twice per second.
paradigm byThe Herald / Dan Bates
Part of the cowling of a B-25 bomber engine being assembled in 1942.
figure of speech byLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division / Alfred T. Palmer
A modern airplane engine: the Engine Alliance GP7000 turbofan engine, capable of pushing 81,500 pounds of force (36,980 kgf or 363 kN) at full thrust.
figure of speech by AP / Jessica Hill , Jens Meyer
The open rotor and combustion chamber of a much powerful engine, the SGT5-4000F gas turbine.
Image bySiemens AG
The interior of another familiar shuttle friend:NASA’s 747 mothership.
simulacrum byNASA
A naked and obsolete (super) computer: Cray Y-MP at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Images byLLNL
More engines: the CPR 8000 steam locomotive’s water tube boiler and firebox is a crazily complex plumbing job.
persona byBrass Goggles
Compare it to this old school electric locomotive, the Kalman Kando’s V40.
Scanned from Möller Károly : A mai technika ( Technics Today ) . Királyi Magyar Egyetemi Nyomda ( Hungarian Royal University Press ) , Budapest , 1942 , photographer unidentified .
Image curation by Attila Nagy
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