The oldies are really hard to guess. Great job guys!
SD Forum's Quizz of the Week Thread
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This was a Ford, Twin Engine, Cab-over-Engine (COE) truck designed specifically to haul B-24 Liberator bomber parts for the World War II effort. Henry Ford was asked specifically to design trucks, including special one like this, for the war effort.
Here's some other pics of these trucks from the war years:
Here's a great article about it:
Jeff's got it!
Ford was even consulted on streamlining mass production of the B-24 bomber.
Here are two more links to information on this truck:
Back to you Jeff!
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Well...no.
While Gallileo significantly improved and advanced the telescope design. He did not invent it. Here is one of his designs:
So, hehehe, no, this device:
is not one of Gallileo's telescopes.
Ok guys. Here's one that is a little more difficult.
What is this device? Who developed it? When was it 1st deployed? Where?
Looks sorta like a bomb sight but I am inclined to go with airborne surveillance equipment. This is indeed difficult.
Thanks for trying...but nope. Incorrect.
Tomorrow around noon I will give the 1st of three hints. I will give another one every other day. If at the end of that no one gets it, to move the process along, I will reveal what it is, and then pick someone else to proceed next.
kwaigonegin
Colonel
A spectograph or laser rangefinder?
kwaigonegin
Colonel
OK.. it definitely IS a spetrograph!
look who brought it up to the moon?
dang Jeff it was hard!
Ok.
It is the first observatory ever operated from a fixed (land/planetoid based) platform outside the earth. It is a gold-plated ultraviolet camera/spectrograph invented by Dr. George Carruthers of the US Navy Research Laboratory. Apollo 16 astronauts placed the camera on the moon in 1972.
Here's a link to a story on Dr. Carruthers which mentions it and from where I got the pic:
So, your turn kwaigonegin!