Hitachi - Magic wand, Hydraulic excavators, Scanning Electron Microscopes.
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They sold the rights to make the magic wand about a decade ago. No longer Hitachi, alas.
Because Hitachi was embarrassed about their innocent personal massager being used for such unwholesome activities. Literal PR move.
I thought Magic Wands were used almost exclusively for holesome activities.
Nice
Just like TI... They no longer make the famous calculator
Well that makes sense, he had to focus on his music career.
Get off my lawn
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Mitsubishi: pens, cars, nuclear power plants.
They fucked up San onofre so bad it's now being decommissioned 😡
https://newsroom.edison.com/stories/sce-formally-serves-mitsubishi-with-notice-of-dispute
It was a $680mill job, and SoCal Edison (SCE) had such an inept legal team, they missed a term in the contract with Mitsubishi which limited payout for failure within the 20yr warranty to $125mill.
Can you fucking believe that shit? I only found this out after investigating why there was a $3 "decommissioning fee" on my first electric bill after moving to California.
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Funnily, they no longer make either of these products. The glass jar division was sold decades ago, and the aerospace sector was purchased by BAE last year. Ball is still the largest manufacturer of aluminum cans, however. They also make plastic bottles.
I like their idea of aluminum cups, but the boxes they come in are unfortunately made from plastic coated paperboard. (Not sure why, with their whole selling point being more environmentally friendly.)
Also aluminum is super great at conducting heat! which means your drink will rapidly move toward whatever temperature it is.
Great at conduction, but with not a lot of thermal mass, meaning that actually your drink will usually just make whatever it's touching (your hand, often) super cold or hot.
It's a two way street. Your hand is reciprocally warming the drink.
We’ve been storing and drinking beverages in aluminum cans for like a century now and this hasn’t been a big problem.
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Ever heard of Big Deal Custom Cases? They're a company in Winnipeg, Manitoba who started out making road cases for musicians before diversifying into laptops, field equipment, basically anything breakable anyone needed to carry from one place to another.
Imagine what they thought when NASA phoned them up to build giant cases to carry the sails for the James Webb Space Telescope from the manufacturer to their headquarters.
Probably
huh, that is right up our alley, but were kinda always felt that there's a secret echelon of “really professional companies” that gets contracted by NASA
For US government contracts that secret echelon is called the lowest bidder lol
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What the hell I thought they were just a local place that does work vehicle retrofits and other small stuff. That's awesome.
Yeah! I didn't know until I visited with a friend of Gary Dealy (nicknamed Big Deal.) They have framed photos of the whole process. You should ask about it if you're in there, Gary told us the whole story. Very nice, cool, hilarious people.
I’ve had one of their cases for my Epiphone for 20+ years now, I’ll be dead long before that thing ever needs replaced.
Does it really have a resting shocked Pikachu face?
Only from that perspective, the "eyes" are on the supports for the sensor in front of the mirrors
It knows it's going to see some shit
It does
A bra company made NASA's spacesuits.
I saw a documentary about that which was a total hoot. From some stiff necked old coot talking about "At Hamilton Standard we made propellers and transmission gearboxes for military and commercial applications. They made brassieres." To this sharp old girl talking about "I was making baby pants and they asked me if I wanted to try something different. They put me in charge of quality control, and I issued each girl color coded pins. I was examining one suit, and I found a red pin, so I looked up who was issued the red pins and I went over to her and said "Here's your pin" and I stuck her in the behind with it."
I like to think those two are married.
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Those things are feats of engineering!
Spacesuits are cool too I guess.
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honeywell: has home thermostats also honeywell: need defense/data center/aerospace industry products?
Honeywell licenses their name for consumer products. They dont actually make that stuff anymore.
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And just about half of all beverage cans in the world.
Homies out here calling a Ball jar a Mason jar... Smh. Practically spitting on the abandoned ruins of Muncie, IN.
The style is called a Mason jar because John Mason came up with it and made it popular. This is called a Mason jar for this reason.
John Mason was from New Jersey. What does Muncie IL have to do with the Mason jar style?
Muncie, Indiana ~~is~~ was the home of the Ball Corporation, which is the company referenced in this meme. Also of Ball State University, founded by his endowment. Like "Mason jar" before it, "Ball jar" has become a genericized trademark for the object itself, especially in the Midwest.
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This is like General Mills, the cereal company, also designing DSV Alvin, the deep sea submersible.
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Corning: dinner plates, Gorilla glass, space shuttle windows
And fiber optic cables!
Even the telescope looks surprised!
See also: the Apollo Lunar Module (LEM), the humble US Postal Truck (LLV), and the F/A-18 Super Hornet, all made by the Grumman Corporation.
Ball was spun off and is a subsidiary of Rubbermaid.
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