4 Comments Posted by 1079

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That video of those engines working is pretty cool, they look like they only ran somewhere between 60-100 RPM from the speed of the flywheels in the video. That's not a very fast running engine. You can also tell it was insanely noisy, too.
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If would be interesting to know how many rpm's these engines ran at....
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Motts, were those just decorative, or were they meant to be able to withstand someone sitting out on them? I can't imagine having windows where people could just get out them that easily considering what the building was used for....
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holy crap, that's a dizzying perspective....