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This is wonderful. The whole site reminds me of "Edmund Scientific," a catalog and retail store that dominated my thoughts and dreams as a child.
by xsmasher 4y ago
This is wonderful. The whole site reminds me of "Edmund Scientific," a catalog and retail store that dominated my thoughts and dreams as a child.
- flir 4y agoGiant fresnel lens? You were not alone.
- dalke 4y agoBack in 1995, a friend of mine and some of her friends at the University of Michigan had fun with "Random Destructive Acts via Focused Solar Radiation" using one of those lenses. - https://bclee.net/lens.html https://bclee.net/lens.html . No images, much less video, to go along with the 1995 story, as you might expect from a time when most people had film cameras and dial-up. It hit Slashdot 19 years ago, at https://slashdot.org/story/04/05/21/1936210/things-you-can-do-with-a-giant-fresnel-lens https://slashdot.org/story/04/05/21/1936210/things-you-can-d... . Reading mention of someone I knew make the world seem a bit smaller. Recalling this, and re-reading the account, brings bittersweet memories now as she passed some 10 years ago.
- robotguy 4y agoIf you liked Edmund Scientific, you might check out American Science and Surplus: https://www.sciplus.com/ https://www.sciplus.com/