Evenings on the lake

The Dreadnought Project: Blueprints

Conning Tower detail of S.M. Unterseeboote U63-65 (Circa 1916)

Via the Cartoonist, comes a stunning collection of scanned original blueprints for a variety of 20th Century German warships.  The site jpgs are quite large and take a little while to load, but the level of discernable detail to be found is incredible... 

Link: The Dreadnought Project.

World's First Spy Camera(?)

Discovered whilst browsing the George Eastman House Collection at Emory university. This photographic curiosity must surely be considered the world's first "hidden camera."

From the link:
The vest camera was designed by R.D. Gray and demonstrated by him to the New York Society of Amateur Photographers on December 22, 1885. The camera was a disc form fitted behind a rigid false shirt front with a lens that, disguised as a button, passed through the front. Six exposures could be made on the glass plate, rotated by a knob which also passed through the front. Turning this knob also set the rotary shutter, which was released by pulling a cord hanging below the false front.
Link: Circular vest camera, Circa 1885.

Microscopic Wood Anatomy of Central European Species

For those who love this sort of thing...

Link: Microscopic Wood Anatomy.

BMW Thailand

BMW Thailand presents a nice compendium of foldable card models.    Gentlemen, start your x-actos!

Link: BMW Thailand.