notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

Extract from a Markov Chain on Flickr by revdancatt.

Gemini ‘off the pad abort’ by Dr R Charles on Flickr.

A page from ‘Manned Spacecraft’ by Kenneth Gatland.

Patent #3,285,228, The Fisher Anti-Gravity Pen, from The Fisher Space Pen Boldly Writes Where No Man Has Written Before in the Smithsonian’s Design Decoded blog.

General Electric’s Hardiman I, 1965-71:

Hardiman is a name derived somehow, from “Human Augmentation Research and Development Investigation.” and Man from MANipulator. Sometimes written as HardiMan, Hardi-Man, Hardi Man, Hardiman I. Said to also be officially called the “Powered Exo-skeleton”.

Cybernetic Zoo, via c86

Two more diagrams from Makeshift’s Pylons of Great Britain, by Lukas Barry, Alastair Parvin, and Tom Kangro.

Pylon construction diagram, from Makeshift’s Pylons of Great Britain manifesto/booklet.

Seattle Space Needle plans, 1962 (posted by x-ray delta one)

US state results map in the style of Letterpress, by Dave Wiskus.

The Guardian’s state level election maps (for Mississippi, California, and New York) used height to show the population (making it clear why, for example, the inland parts of California didn’t stop the state going to Obama 60% to 40%).

I’m a little surprised they didn’t take the same approach to the electoral college map; that would have been interesting to see.

Tea, Coffee and Milk Consumption, from Our Private Lives, posted by Michael Stoll on Flickr:

Here duly charted is a major difference in the private lives of Britons and Americans. Cups represent pounds of tea or coffee, and since a pound of tea goes farther, Britons probably drink more tea than Americans do coffee.. As for gallons of milk, Switzerland sets a target for all.

From the book America and Britain: Three Volumes in One, by P Sargant Florence; Lella Secor Florence; K B Smellie. Book published 1946; figures from 1930-1934.