Both very good finds. I especially like that fan, though it does look like it would happily chop off your fingers if you were to venture anywhere near it with them!
Last week I scored a 1970's sound monitoring meter from work along with various calibration fittings. They are all high quality, leather cased instruments from the days when scientific equipment was very expensive and built by guys in lab coats. My workplace had replaced it with a modern one and were going to throw it in the bin, hence I rescued it. Basically it is a device for measuring the Decibel level of sound, in my work's instance they used it to monitor the sound levels around the site.
pic: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3135/2621516353_50cb1c8bc0_b.jpg
I probably won't use it but I think it is a nice bit of retro gear and too good to be thrown away. As far as I know it still works but it takes a weird battery which is expensive and difficult to get.
Last week I scored a 1970's sound monitoring meter from work along with various calibration fittings. They are all high quality, leather cased instruments from the days when scientific equipment was very expensive and built by guys in lab coats. My workplace had replaced it with a modern one and were going to throw it in the bin, hence I rescued it. Basically it is a device for measuring the Decibel level of sound, in my work's instance they used it to monitor the sound levels around the site.
pic: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3135/2621516353_50cb1c8bc0_b.jpg
I probably won't use it but I think it is a nice bit of retro gear and too good to be thrown away. As far as I know it still works but it takes a weird battery which is expensive and difficult to get.