10 Short Videos #6168

10 Short Videos #6168

Up until the 1950s most sofas used these springs, until cheaper alternatives took over.

I need answers - Sam Alkhatib

More like the worlds one percent cup

Classic Swiss Precision! - Longines stopwatch

Not Your Typical Taxiway Hazard! (Twin Otter Seaplane Avoids Snorkelers in Maldives)

This owl has more attitude than me

Hippos Walk Underwater?!

Where Does The "Mile" Come From?

No Electricity, No Sparks — The Pneumatic Explosion-Proof Fan

Cakmak Tepe. Boncuklu Tarla. The Sites Keep Getting Older. Gobekli Tepe Was Never the Starting Point

Funnies

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

Chariots of Fire - Loren Blackburn

We built over 12,000 B-17s, but only 5,000 went to Europe. Thousands were used for training stateside. A few hundred were sent to the Pacific theater. Who knows how many ended up on the scrap pile.

B-17 gunners and fighter gun cam video
OkraJoe

The TERRIFYING Side of B-17 Flying Fortress Crews
Unbelievable true stories

Masters of the Air Clip - “Battle of Münster” (2024)
Action Society
The National Archives and Records Administration has the image at top.
The B-17 has been mentioned here before, once or twice.

LeTourneau

How This Radical Scraper Changed Earthmoving Forever
Heavy Machines Era

I remember reading something about LeTourneau a long while back. It was all about how he was using electric motors to drive the wheels on his machines. There was a diesel engine driving a generator which provided electrical power to the motors (obviously). And it was presented as something really great and wonderful, but it never explained what was so great and wonderful about it. Many years later I was looking diesel locomotives and I suddenly realized, or somebody told me, that the whole reason for using electric motors on the drive wheels is because you can get full torque from the motor at zero RPM. Imagine if you had a conventional manual clutch and transmission like you would have in a semi-truck, installed in a locomotive. Now you try and start from a dead stop and you have to slip the clutch a bit to get the train rolling. Yeah, the clutch will be on fire before the train even thinks about moving. A conventional clutch is not going to work. So, electric motors. Now LeTourneau's idea makes sense. And now we have a video about the history of the company and I have an excuse to tell my story.

Short Sunderland Mark V

Short Sunderland Mark V

Extract from Wikipedia:

The Short S.25 Sunderland is a British flying boat patrol bomber. The aircraft took its service name from the port of Sunderland in North East England.

The Sunderland was fitted with various offensive and defensive armaments, including machine gun turrets, bombs, aerial mines, and depth charges. The Sunderland was powered by four Bristol Pegasus XVIII radial engines and was fitted with various detection equipment to aid combat operations, including the Leigh searchlight, the ASV Mark II and ASV Mark III radar units, and an astrodome.

During WW2, the type was heavily involved in Allied efforts to counter the threat posed by German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic. On 17 July 1940, an RAAF Sunderland performed the type's first unassisted U-boat kill.

During the post-war era, use of the Sunderland throughout Europe rapidly declined, while greater numbers remained in service in the Far East, where large developed runways were less prevalent. Several squadrons of RAF Sunderlands saw combat action during the Korean War. Around a dozen aircraft also participated in the Berlin airlift.

Several examples have been preserved, including a single airworthy Sunderland which has been placed on display in Florida at Fantasy of Flight.

Cutaway drawing of Short Sunderland Mk. II
Captions might be in Russian

The WWII Flying Porcupine With 16 Guns
IsonzoEnjoyer

The Leigh Light, an unusual device used by British aircraft to combat German submarines U-boat WW2
JOHN WAKE

The image at top is artwork for a Special Hobby plastic model kit.

Count Binface

HS2 is a travesty for the people of Makerfield and Greater Manchester. Vote Binface and #Makerfield Great Again! pic.twitter.com/d9Dh2SvO2U

— Count Binface (@CountBinface) June 18, 2026

HS2 is the UK's version of California's high speed rail project, i.e. it's a giant money pit. 

Gotta love the UK. Remember Boaty McBoatface? Via Finding life hard?

10 Short Videos #6167

10 Short Videos #6167

A glass tower is growing inside this building - Domino Sugar Building in Brooklyn

You Can’t Kill the Dancing Crab Robot

May 8, 2026 - Bending steamed wood rods to make chair frames

How do you deal with excess MIG wire? The eternal battle between ease and conservation.

Would You Fly the 1956 Gyro-Boat?

THE BRIDGE AT TYRNYAUZ, Russia, collapsed by glacial mudflow

NASA Is Bringing Real Mars Wind to Earth

The vengeance of Olga of Kyiv

The Pistol That Saved Winston Churchill - Sudan 1898

Get it away from me pal - Sam Alkhatib