GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!

[triggur]

The Farnsworth Chronoptic Photo-Scope is done, as shiny as the day it was made!

Comments

[equusmaximus]

That looks AWESOME!!!

Your projects always continue to impress, inspire, and amaze! :)

[triggur]

Thank you ^.^

[zebrataur]

Seconded - that's beautiful!

[wingywoof]

What do the keys do? :D

[triggur]

Each column seems to control the motion of the eight slot-machine-like rollers in the bottom clear section of the stained glass.

Selecting the first glyph from any one row clears out the remaining rows, and when you have selected one from each column, it determines which of 354 silent, 110-year-old Edison films plays.

Each time you click the telephone-like hook on the side, it plays one of 150 different old shortwave coded message spy broadcasts. Very creepy broadcasts, especially in the dead of night in a very dark room, save the flickering light of the silent film.

[nickhalfasleep]

Very cool. Does it make clanking, whirring, hissing noises after each press? This seems like a box that would just be crammed full of levers and gears.

[triggur]

it makes a chuck-chuck-chuck sound as the red pointer slides to the column that will be rolled, and then kind of a clicking whirrrrr KERCHUNK as the dial spins into place and locks.

[nickhalfasleep]

Compresses and records aether waves via a series of pneumatic-mechanical relays.

[triggur]

I see you are well-versed in the science of machinery.

[acidchylde]

That is awesome and pretty (awesomely pretty?). Great attention to details - the wood grain, the glass, the brass and fonts... Beautiful.

[kuddlepup]

That's really cool! Did you just locate it? Or wanted to restore it for a long time?

[triggur]

I found it in a dusty crate in the basement of a warehouse. It was supposed to sail on the Lusitania but for some reason it didn't make it.