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A History of Encabulation
- readthenotes1 4y agoI think my Dad has one of these in his basement.
- Damogran6 4y agoThere was a time when you could count on 5 or 6 families per subdivision would have 'em. There was a huge effort to volunteer their output during the second world war.
- bityard 4y agoThis is one of my favorite bits of all time. I often wondered whether the original was scripted or done off-the-cuff but you know what? Not actually knowing is part of the magic.
- kurisufag 4y agoaccording to the video's description: "This is the first time Turbo Encabulator was recorded with picture. I shot this in the late 70's at Regan Studios in Detroit on 16mm film. The narrator and writer is Bud Haggert. He was the top voice-over talent on technical films. He wrote the script because he rarely understood the technical copy he was asked to read and felt he shouldn't be alone. We had just finished a production for GMC Trucks and Bud asked since this was the perfect setting could we film his Turbo Encabulator script. [...] Dave Rondot (me) was the director and John Choate was the DP on this production. The first laugh at the end is mine. My hat's off to Bud a true talent." hopefully the magic is still somewhat intact ;^)
- meatsock 4y agopart of the development of the IFB, the earpiece in common use on every tv news show: The turboencabulator skit was originally intended to demonstrate the usefulness of earpiece radios as a replacement for cue cards when actors are delivering lines for a video. Bud Haggart wanted to show that you could use the earpiece effectively even when the lines get ridiculously difficult to follow, so he used the turboencabulator as a subject because it'd been a running gag in the engineering community ever since its first technical description was published by John Hellins Quick in 1944.
- Hermitude 4y agoThey had me until sonosoidal.
- AlbertCory 4y ago"Flux" was the giveaway for me.
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- bee_rider 4y agoHuh, I wonder if these guys designed the ship that the Spaceteam used.
- ISL 4y agoEncabulation is one of the most joyful subfields in engineering. It is always great to see improvements and contributions to our knowledge, whether incremental or transformative.
- bbanyc 4y ago"It's not cheap, but I'm sure the government will buy it."
- defrost 4y agoThey ordered four, one to use, one for standby, and another pair to warehouse for parts and lifecycle extension.
- B1FF_PSUVM 4y agoThat's too close to the bone.
- BirAdam 4y agoThe footnotes made this so much more fascinating.
- Jupe 4y agoKinda like GIT? See https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/#aW50ZXJjaGFuZ2UkJG1hc3Rlcg== https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/#aW50ZXJjaGFuZ2U... :)
- pwdisswordfish9 4y agoWhat motivates arbitrarily capitalizing Git like this? (Or "JAVA"?) Do people wind up with the impression that it's an acronym? Why?
- Jupe 4y agoGood question. I always capitalize GIT, since "git" is a word, meaning an "an unpleasant or contemptible person". I guess Git is better/more correct. Thanks for pointing out my idiosyncrasy. I'll use that in the future.
- tempodox 4y agoI have yet to see an encabulator with a perpulsating repultator. That should give an additional boost to mimical aeroplasticy.
- benj111 4y agoWouldn't that break speigelheimstein's 5th law of retro vuntrucular hazing?
- simonebrunozzi 4y ago> encabulation: a transmission that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. I am not sure if this is a joke or not.
- numpad0 4y agoThat’s the joke.
- voxadam 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_encabulator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_encabulator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag (definitely not the original) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w (another version) https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/sqj.1944.0033 https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/... (closer to the original)
- mothsonasloth 4y agoI tried to write a Java SE application to be embedded in my retro encabulator to improve sinusoidal malleance, however due to a resonance cascade in 1.4 JVM it terfumbled and produced a cryptic stacktrace.
- zeristor 4y agoI’m sure ChatGPT would be able to make sense of this.
- rippercushions 4y agoIf you like encabulation, you'll love VX: https://www.reddit.com/r/VXJunkies https://www.reddit.com/r/VXJunkies