The turbo encabulator

Wed, Jan 6 2010 10:27 PM | technobabble, fun | Permalink
Old stuff, but fun ... a whole line of technobabble that came out of a paper written in the June, 1944, edition of the IEE's Student's Quarterly Journal (... and yes, it really is "IEE" ... the Institution of Electrical Engineers in the UK): "The Turbo-Encabulator in Industry"

A GE datasheet for the turboencabulator.

(Dodge did a later version with background physical humor).

A Rockwell version included some of the original references to "the Peruvian Academy of Scatological Sciences", but it hangs sometimes)

And then the later "retro encabulator" in a Rockwell marketing film: 

And even later, the Sun Microsystems "Heisenburg Compensator"

For a typically authoritative and peer-reviewed explanation (and many more great links), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator

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ExPASy - Metabolic Pathways

Thu, Dec 17 2009 04:46 PM | infographics, fun, science | Permalink
via expasy.ch

I absolutely love this. You can get a paper copy if you want. If I had a blank wall big enough, I would get it ... those Swiss, they have such a sense of humor.

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