Hell yeah. They pulled off some impressive shit in the 20th as well. Automatic transmissions are amazing. That’s why nobody can actually fix one. BMW pulled off fuselage-mounted machine guns that fired between the spinning blades of the propeller in WWI. Hence the brag in their emblem.
It is funny how all this old stuff that don’t have any kind of electronics are seen now. I have a gramophone that feels like black magic, specially with how loud that thing can be.
The fact that they work without transistors.
Technology Connections did a couple episodes on the ingeniously simple tech in a couple old cameras.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwm_Dya0PFQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_uBHmAhnfo
Holy cow that first camera is just so full of genius engineering.
I’m always astounded at what 19th century engineers could do with just mechanical stuff.
@Onomatopoeia @khannie
Hell yeah. They pulled off some impressive shit in the 20th as well. Automatic transmissions are amazing. That’s why nobody can actually fix one. BMW pulled off fuselage-mounted machine guns that fired between the spinning blades of the propeller in WWI. Hence the brag in their emblem.
It is funny how all this old stuff that don’t have any kind of electronics are seen now. I have a gramophone that feels like black magic, specially with how loud that thing can be.