Fantasy. Or not?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Our century before last is so rich in secrets that respected science fiction writers of the 20th century should rather look into the past. But then it was not given to the common man. But fortunately, now the digital 21st century has come, which, among other benefits, has created digital archives, which have become rich in libraries even of states that are invisible on the map and in world life.

And looking through the digital archives of old photographic materials, sometimes you want to write a science fiction novel. But is it just fantastic?

It's nice to work with digital archives in Brazil, where the censor was not motivated enough. Sometimes you extract useful things for yourself. If in the National Library of New Zealand even the roofs of houses in the photo are cut off, as here, which can be seen with the naked eye,

Moreover, in all the photos, the Brazilian archive has something to see. But let's not deviate from the topic, but read a little fiction.

Once upon a time there were countries where such trams rode (see the main photo). They look like ordinary trams, but.. without a pantograph and wires. I have already written about this about many countries. Actually, there were many such trams across all continents.

There was even a discussion about them, and in general they rightly convinced me that there were no miracles here, food to them went along the rails. Readers who are on the subject will immediately be skeptical of this technical idea. Understandably, with this method of transferring energy, the losses would exceed the useful work. And the trams would run until the first rain. But trams were running. And even more than one year in the form of an experiment somewhere in the exemplary progressive capital of that time.

If you look closely, then no wires are suitable for the tram, and it carries a very significant load. Well, the interior decoration of such trams can be surprising in many ways.

It turns out there were luxury trams. It is difficult to imagine anything like this anywhere in our country. But nevertheless, they were, and only a little over a hundred years ago. Particularly attractive is the dome on the ceiling. What's in it? If the lighting is already there, then there is most likely something else. Are the loudspeakers really? Probably not, too bold for that time. Although.. who knows. But judging by the preserved archival materials of those years, we do not know too much, and nothing can be ruled out. For example, the following exhibitions of the achievements of that time were held:

This is just an exhibition of advances in electricity from 1881 in Paris. If you zoom in and take a closer look, then the entire pavilion is crammed with strange devices, but not a single generation object is visible in the form in which we imagine them. But on the other hand, there are a lot of models of churches, as well as trellises, sticks and other products on which there are mini-domes. And oddly enough, a lot of bulbs are on and off. Is it possible that a power cable comes from somewhere outside, or is it all burning on batteries? Some kind of fantasy. Or maybe those same mini-domes, such as these, are still catching up with energy?

In the catalog, they are modestly referred to as industrial products. Apparently good products. One even (on the corner of the table on the right) in the form of a menorah. And probably they did not do it for aesthetics at all.

When placed on a chandelier, it probably gave light if a specially designed light bulb was placed in its middle. Or, for example, you can do it a little differently.

If you look closely, the twin lamps move up and down thanks to the suspensions. But how do electric wires or gas pipes (if there is gas) stretch after them? Probably, the whole point is not at all in this, but in the design of the counterweight, in which a certain secret is kept, called in Europe by the short word tain.

But such items were made, of course, not only for chandeliers.

As you can see, they were massively sculpted on poles, thanks to which our trams drove. But … something happened, and the trams were switched to a different type of power supply, as can already be seen in this photo. But mini-domes are still standing, perhaps they were still used in the neighboring houses, or maybe they just forgot to dismantle them. It happens. What can we talk about here if there were public toilets too, like from the exhibition?

A sort of model of St. Peter's Basilica, just for the administration of several other needs, again some kind of fantasy.. And the framing of the bottom of the dome on the toilet is also clearly not without reason.

If someone imagines fractal geometry, then here it is in its purest form. And such a fringe is far from being for beauty. Such a roof model is nothing more than a modified model of the head of the dome of an Orthodox church, where two apples stand at the top, the metal material of the roof rafters forms the head, and the pommel above the apple in the Orthodox chapter, which is from above, in this case, is moved down and dispersed along the perimeter of the roof … Technically very competently, any high-altitude work on such installations complicates operation at times. The same principle is completely used in such structures:

Such is our fantastic country, where it is not necessary to extract oil and fight over it. And there were such countries located on all continents where there was civilization, until a narrow circle of people came up with an ingenious way of getting rich and successfully implemented it in several decades. But that is another story.

But since we're talking about domes and apples, there is probably something else worth looking at.

Has anyone ever seen apples on glass domes? Probably not. And you can't entangle it with light bulbs. How could this apple shine like a giant light bulb? In the first photo, in addition, the brightness of the lamps from the apple down smoothly decreases, which contradicts all the laws of physics. Again, fantastic. But this is all garbage in comparison with the world revolution by an apparatus that could receive electricity centrally in such a volume as in these illuminations, if it was there at all. Most likely, if there were incandescent lamps, the power would be considerable. Let's mentally return to the picture from the electrical exhibition. Was there any generator of sufficient power at all that could convert atmospheric electricity into usable energy, for example, for the operation of mechanical devices?

Probably could … Oops … No incoming pipes, no outlets, no pressure gauges. This is not at all a container for brewing beer. Doesn't it look like anything?

This is a chapel from a water intake located at that time in an ordinary district town of the Russian Empire (as everyone understood, it has been gone for a long time). At this place, inside the chapel, there was the first deep pump, supplying water to the first-level water-lifting building. Only the valves at the engine for the pump were most likely inside. And in an earlier photo, the valves are visible, and instead of a pump, the transmission output to the collective distribution system is used here. Wow fantastic..