Guess what this is a photo of!

[Buck]

A power supply for some sort of instrument.

 

[Renee Attili]

It looks very similar to the emergency power pac that I use for my air and filtration system in my aquarium. It kicks on when the power goes out so my fish don't die.

 

[Barbara L]

Totally out of my element with this stuff, so I'm grasping at straws. A frequency converter?

Barbara

 

[pacanis]

I was thinking it was a tape backup for a computer. A friend in the IT field left me one years ago and the size is about right, but I'd have to side with the "UPS theory" the way YT said it covered a couple of things

 

[YT2095]

Yup. BT`s right on the money, it is a U.P.S

 

[phinz]

That's what I get for not posting yesterday morning. I had UPS typed out and figured that was too simple.

 

[YT2095]

I thought it was a nice "Curve ball", put in something Simple... catch you off guard and keep you on your toes

Renee, I use mine for all different things too, where you need Mains electricity and don`t want to drag a generator along with you.

 

[buckytom]

yt, i thought you used lightning for most of your experiments... mwahahahaaaa!!!!!

ok, am i up?

several of us guessed correctly. andy was before me, and was correct in a way.

 

[YT2095]

true, quite a few got extremely close, but if you went into a computer shop and asked for any of them instead of saying UPS, you could be there for a while.

that was my thinking. but I`ll leave it to you guys, either way I`m Out.

and yes, I quite Frequently use Pre-Strike lightning charges in my experiments

 

[Andy M.]

...andy was before me, and was correct in a way.

Not me. I was jsut babbling with various arrangements of the three close guesses before mine.

Go for it.

 

[buckytom]

ok, what's this?

 

[YT2095]

looks like some kind of Copper based metal that`s been under water for ages, maybe a breech block from a large gun, or a bulkhead of some sort?

 

[buckytom]

good guess. it was found underwater, after a long soak. roughly 2000 years.

it was made of bronze, btw.

but it's not from a gun, nor a part of a ship.

 

[YT2095]

sorry BT: Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[buckytom]

way to go, yt.

it's a pretty interesting little device.

you're up.

 

[YT2095]

ok, what is This and what year was it invented.
I took 2 pics just in case.

 

[buckytom]

i don't know, but put some water in it and hand me the lighter...

 

[Buck]

Is it a Crookes tube? (c.1875)

 

[YT2095]

nope, but the Century is correct!

 

[Renee Attili]

i don't know, but put some water in it and hand me the lighter...

hahahahahahahhahahahhahahahha