*sigh*
I used to have a 70s book about space that had all the GPO (yes, them) designs for space craft, among others. Lost it when they cleared out granny’s house after she died and never managed to identify it.
( , Fri 26 Apr 2024, 16:43, Share, Reply)
I used to have a 70s book about space that had all the GPO (yes, them) designs for space craft, among others. Lost it when they cleared out granny’s house after she died and never managed to identify it.
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Challenge accepted.
GPO=UK General Post office or USA Government Publishing Office?
( , Fri 26 Apr 2024, 18:01, Share, Reply)
GPO=UK General Post office or USA Government Publishing Office?
( , Fri 26 Apr 2024, 18:01, Share, Reply)
Post Office. The actual Post Office drew up designs for space ships.
I want to say hardback with black cover but to be fair I was only 7 at the time and that probably covers most space books. I also remember there being a couple of pages devoted to space toilets.
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I want to say hardback with black cover but to be fair I was only 7 at the time and that probably covers most space books. I also remember there being a couple of pages devoted to space toilets.
( , Fri 26 Apr 2024, 19:00, Share, Reply)
The 2 pages on
number 2s must be a common thing, when I read that I reached over for my copy of Living In Space by Peter Smolders (published 1986 by Airlife) which mostly deals with the shuttle program, Salyut, Skylab and Spacelab, was originally written in Dutch, and is definitely not your book.
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number 2s must be a common thing, when I read that I reached over for my copy of Living In Space by Peter Smolders (published 1986 by Airlife) which mostly deals with the shuttle program, Salyut, Skylab and Spacelab, was originally written in Dutch, and is definitely not your book.
( , Fri 26 Apr 2024, 21:03, Share, Reply)
I wouldn’t go to too much effort.
There’s every chance you could find the exact book and I wouldn’t recognise it. It had cutaways of NERVA and Daedalus/Orion engines too.
Every chance I’m misremembering but I think the toilet instructions part actually had a shot of those from 2001.
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There’s every chance you could find the exact book and I wouldn’t recognise it. It had cutaways of NERVA and Daedalus/Orion engines too.
Every chance I’m misremembering but I think the toilet instructions part actually had a shot of those from 2001.
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GPO was dissolved in 1969, replaced by Post Office Ltd.,
but I have found one book published by GPO in 1970... Which has nothing to do with space. Finding a list of GPO publications is proving bizarrely difficult, I'm sure search engines and libraries used to be good for this sort of thing.
There are a lot of technical books/pamphlets relating to space published by the American GPO (e.g. presidential/senate/committee reports on space projects and research) that overwhelm search results on biblio and abebooks... Many of these are sure to contain diagrams and cutaways...
Also there are lots of cutaway books from the 50s onwards (Eagle dedicated at least two hardbacks to them) but relatively few devoted to space. This should be easy, dammit.
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but I have found one book published by GPO in 1970... Which has nothing to do with space. Finding a list of GPO publications is proving bizarrely difficult, I'm sure search engines and libraries used to be good for this sort of thing.
There are a lot of technical books/pamphlets relating to space published by the American GPO (e.g. presidential/senate/committee reports on space projects and research) that overwhelm search results on biblio and abebooks... Many of these are sure to contain diagrams and cutaways...
Also there are lots of cutaway books from the 50s onwards (Eagle dedicated at least two hardbacks to them) but relatively few devoted to space. This should be easy, dammit.
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My money's on this one
dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2020/08/inside-information-on-space-travel-1970.html
( , Fri 26 Apr 2024, 23:55, Share, Reply)
dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2020/08/inside-information-on-space-travel-1970.html
( , Fri 26 Apr 2024, 23:55, Share, Reply)
It wasn't produced by GPO.
Perhaps I'm not explaining well enough. The GPO produced serious designs for space craft and EVA suits. I'm not joking, though given how hard it is to find an example I'm beginning to wonder if I had some sort of fever dream.
Fuck. I seem to be gaslighting myself now, but I could [i]swear[/i] I even saw a feature on TV about them.
www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/393713192400027234/ Perhaps?
Fuck it, I'm driving myself mad over this post office business. Only hope now is to track down that damned book I suppose.
( , Sat 27 Apr 2024, 0:18, Share, Reply)
Perhaps I'm not explaining well enough. The GPO produced serious designs for space craft and EVA suits. I'm not joking, though given how hard it is to find an example I'm beginning to wonder if I had some sort of fever dream.
Fuck. I seem to be gaslighting myself now, but I could [i]swear[/i] I even saw a feature on TV about them.
www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/393713192400027234/ Perhaps?
Fuck it, I'm driving myself mad over this post office business. Only hope now is to track down that damned book I suppose.
( , Sat 27 Apr 2024, 0:18, Share, Reply)
There is mention in passing in here of the Post Office working on designs for comms satellites
spacesuit and pressure suit thread
If you go to the level above there are threads on the likes of Blue Streak and ELDO, one of the contributors is the author of Vertical Empire
level above
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spacesuit and pressure suit thread
If you go to the level above there are threads on the likes of Blue Streak and ELDO, one of the contributors is the author of Vertical Empire
level above
( , Sat 27 Apr 2024, 7:55, Share, Reply)
Tommy Flowers worked for the GPO
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers
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Aaaahhh it was British Rail
yes I've been searching, convinced i'd heard of it, but its british rail. And of course, Tom Scott has a video on it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-ZeCXYr_Uw
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yes I've been searching, convinced i'd heard of it, but its british rail. And of course, Tom Scott has a video on it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-ZeCXYr_Uw
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