*OT* Dragnet Episode

The 0.95 was a Canon lens. The Nocton/Nokton was a Voigtlander lens. It appears a 25mm version has been developed for the Four-Thirds System:

I'll tell you what I'd like to see... A full-frame OM DSLR, the same size as an OM-4, that takes all the Zuiko OM lenses. Now, that would be something very, very special.

I had a beautiful OM system that, unfortunately, had to be sold because I would otherwise have lost my home. But the OM camera was truly what it was designed to be -- an "SLR Leica" -- if only in size and elegance. Olympus's Four-Thirds SLRs, even the smallest, are pathetically clunky next to an OM. As are the lenses. Even the "fast" OM lenses are unbelievably tiny.

Jeff

My first job out of grad school in 1958 was with an R&D company, Comstock and Wescott, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Before WWII ("The big one") the company's name was Kalmus, Comstock and Wescott, and I came to know them as the developers of the Technicolor color movie process through that association.

When I joined them one of the products they had already developed and were trying to make a market for was a combination household refrigerator and domestic water heater. The heater tank was on top of an upright refrigerator and served as the condenser for the refrigeration system, recovering the heat removed from the refrigerator. They had named it "Stator".

AFAIK that product never made it to market, possibly because it was too tall for the reduced ceiling heights prevalent after the war.

While I was working there they were also developing household heating systems based on using off peak electrical energy to melt some kind of salt with a high latent heat of fusion stored in multiple narrow containers inside a "furnace plenum." The stored heat warmed air blown over those containers and was used to provide forced air heating.

That one didn't take off back then either, but in the past year I've seen reference to something under development (again) which sounded similar.

Thanks for the mammaries,

Jeff

Have you ever seen a common water fountain hat was modified to produce hot water? A second coil is added, near the condenser to adsorb heat to provide hot water for a bathroom sink.

Not Dan Aykroyd...?

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Freberg did it 30 years before Aykroyd...