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| The Sorcerer’s Apprentice |
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| GORDINI T16 6 cylindres 1952 |
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| 1952 Equipe Gordini T16(F1/F2), 2-Litre Straight 6-Cylinder Double Camshaft Engine |
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| 1952 2½ litre straight-6 Gordini Type 16 of Marc Valvekens |
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| Gordini T16, French GP paddock, July 1953, 2 litre straight-six |
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| German racing driver Rudolf Caracciola attends to his Alfa Romeo Tipo B during the 1932 French Grand Prix held at the Reims-Gueux circuit on July 3, 1932. |
The field was composed of 16 entries, all Alfa Romeos and Bugattis. Only 3 of the Alfas were Tipo B and they swept the first three places. Rudolf came in third.
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| F/V Peccavi |
The Peccavi (CH 449345) is a traditional wooden-hulled French commercial fishing vessel and scallop dredger (chalutier coquillier) built in 1978 by the Servain shipyard in Granville, France.Registered under the Cherbourg maritime district (Granville, France).Specifications: Wooden hull construction with a length overall (LOA) of approximately 15.32 meters and a beam of 5.26 meters
After its adoption, the device remained France's standard method of judicial execution until the abolition of capital punishment in 1981. The last person to be executed by a government via guillotine was Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian murderer, on 10 September 1977 in France.
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| 1954 Ford Comète Monte Carlo |
The Comète was developed at the direction of new Ford SAF president, François Lehideux, who desired a new level of prestige for the French subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. Legideux pressed forward with the Comète independent of their American parent company in Dearborn and sought help from the most notable European automotive visionaries. The Comète combined the elegance of Farina design and the expertise of Facel coach work. The result: a car some have dubbed the most beautiful Ford ever produced. The V8 powered Comete was both large and expensive for the European market. The expensive production and French taxation system, that heavily penalized automobiles with engines larger than 2.0 liters, meant few examples were produced.
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| Comète Interior |
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| Château Royal de Collioure |
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| Château Royal de Collioure |
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| Château Royal de Collioure looking south |
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| Château Royal de Collioure looking west |
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| Inflatable Wing - Celeste Ecoflyers |
A French startup has completed ground avionics testing of an unusual fixed-wing aircraft with a pneumatic wing structure, targeting long-endurance cargo logistics missions with a design that trades speed for dramatically reduced energy consumption per kilogram transported.
“Celeste isn’t a blimp, it’s a fixed-wing aircraft,” the company stated. “Lift is aerodynamic, not buoyancy. What’s pneumatic is the wing structure itself: a pressurized textile envelope replacing the rigid skin and spars, which is what makes the airframe deployable, field-repairable, and gives it an unusual radar signature for an 8-meter platform.”
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| 1935 Renault Celtaquatre by Ermell |
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| Château de Costaérès |
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| St Michael's Mount, England, left Château de Costaérès, bottom left Mont-Saint-Michel, France, bottom center |
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| Mont-Saint-Michel, France |
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| St Michael's Mount, England |
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| St Michael's Mount, England, left & Mont-Saint-Michel, France, bottom center |
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| Silver statue of Saint Michael the Archangel slaying a dragon in abbey Mont Saint Michel |
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| La Favorite Distillery Stationary Steam Engine Fort de France, Martinique |
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| La Habitation |
Martinique is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. A part of the French West Indies, Martinique is an overseas department and region and a single territorial collectivity of France.
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| Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) particle detector, one of the general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. |
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It has a broad physics programme ranging from studying the Standard Model (including the Higgs boson) to searching for extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter. Although it has the same scientific goals as the ATLAS experiment, it uses different technical solutions and a different magnet-system design.
The CMS detector is built around a huge solenoid magnet. This takes the form of a cylindrical coil of superconducting cable that generates a field of 4 tesla, about 100,000 times the magnetic field of the Earth. The field is confined by a steel “yoke” that forms the bulk of the detector’s 14,000-tonne weight.
An unusual feature of the CMS detector is that instead of being built in-situ like the other giant detectors of the LHC experiments, it was constructed in 15 sections at ground level before being lowered into an underground cavern near Cessy in France and reassembled. The complete detector is 21 metres long, 15 metres wide and 15 metres high.
The CMS experiment is one of the largest international scientific collaborations in history, involving about 5500 particle physicists, engineers, technicians, students and support staff from 241 institutes in 54 countries (May 2022). For the latest information, see here.
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| 3D rendering of the ITER tokamak at Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France |
Black & white jigsaw puzzles are ten times tougher than ones with color.
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| Interior of the French Tokamak in Cadaraches |
The entire complex is blurred out on Google Maps. Huh.
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| EAST vacuum vessel |
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| 1928 Terrot Motorcycle |
Terrot was a motorcycle manufacturer in Dijon, France.Charles Terrot and Wilhelm Stücklen had founded a machinery factory in Cannstatt, Germany in 1862, and Terrot added a branch factory in Dijon in 1887, and in 1890 the Dijon factory added bicycles to its products.In 1902, the Dijon factory made its first motorcycle. It was powered by a 2 bhp engine supplied by Zédel of Switzerland. After that, Terrot built motorcycles with engines from 173cc to 498cc from proprietary engine suppliers including the Swiss manufacturers MAG and Dufeaux, the English makers Chater-Lea and JAP along with Givaudan engines from Lyon, France.Terrot produced its first twin-cylinder model in 1905. From 1915 onwards, it supplied 500cc machines to the French Army. In 1921, Terrot launched new two-stroke models: the 175cc model L and the 267cc model E. In 1925, the latter model was developed into the 250cc model F. From 1923 onwards, Terrot also produced four-stroke models. First with a 350cc JAP engine. From 1927 onwards, also with a 500cc engine. In 1926 Terrot began to make its own four-stroke engines. In 1929, the company produced its 100,000th motorcycle.After the Great Depression a new class of vehicles, motorized bicycles, was introduced.In 1932, Terrot entered motorcycle racing and won a triple championship, winning the French 250cc, 350cc and 500cc classes.In the Second World War Terrot supplied the French Army with sidecars: the model GT from 350cc to 750cc and the model DT from 500cc to 750cc.In 1951, Terrot produced its first motor scooter, called VMS. In the 1950s, the company focused on the market for mopeds and lightweight motorcycles.In 1958, Peugeot took over the company. In 1961, production ended at the former Terrot factory.
