Caterpillar, a big company that manufactures big construction machines (and lots of other stuff), released this intentionally peculiar safety video in 1980:
Tag: machines
Boring machines [podcast 71]
Boring machines, boring machines, boring machines, and more boring machines enliven this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams — with dramatic readings by Chris Cotsapas — tells about: Boring Machines— Most, maybe all, of the boring machines featured in this week’s thrilling podcast are profiled, or at least […]
Taking the MIQ to new levels
There’s a famous un-PC rock&roll musician’s gag from the 1980’s . . . Q. “Which is more intelligent, a drum-machine or a drummer?” A. “A drum-machine. You only have to punch in the information once.” Jokes aside, the heated scholarly debate rolls on (and on) about whether a machine can ever be truly ‘intelligent’. Perhaps […]
A miscellany of marble-manipulation machines
A movie of many machines that make marbles move: (Thanks to investigator Torgen Norden for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: A machine that makes marbles:
