Obsolescence Project

Day 239 – Telephone Cord

Telephone Cord

Telephone Cord. c. 2012 –

I purchased a power bar for a media project I am collaborating on right now.

The guy at the mega chain “drug store” tried to upsell me to a battery backup power bar to suit all our tech needs. I got the basic but decent one, which turned out to be fine as the hard drive we are connecting to is a solid state drive. After unpacking and using the power bar I emptied out the box and found this beauty. It strikes me as both funny and sad that they include this object with a power bar. It was to be thrown away, I immediately reached out and grabbed it.

Brand new but nonetheless pretty much obsolete.

Telephone Cord

Status:  Spare part for sea monster.

Kill-ratio: 18: 2/ 9:1

Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 239 For Registering an Abandoned Frequency.

Yesterday, instead of taking the time to update things on this blog (OT Karmic update,  thank you for award,  and an explanation of Alt titles amongst others), I spent the day at my dad’s harvesting our two compost bins of worms. They live on the balcony. The task of separating the worms from the compost cannot be done on that amount of square feet. It was sunny. I did not tweet.

They have to be sorted into little triangular piles, so the worms will hide from the sun and go to the bottom. Then you skim off the compost, rinse and repeat. Return worms to bin and start all over again.

The usual shout out to John’s  and Richard’s blogs for kicking off this whole Alt-title Untitled  nonsense. “Joke” format at the end of  posts inspired by Ben‘s blog.

Day 9 (!) featured a faux antique, but still vintage telephone.

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Day 238 – Plug w/ Patent No. 2,210,215

Plug

4-Way Plug.

The filing date on this patent was Oct 17, 1938, and it was issued on Aug 6, 1940, for a multiple service tap.  Although the patents themselves are easy to find (especially if you have the number) there is a scarcity of information available online on the inventors themselves. However, this statement is based upon only four searches for various patents. This particular inventor was William P. Herman. There are 101,000 results for this name. Too many to sift through for the sake of idle curiosity.

Plug

4 way plug

Pat. 2,210,215

Patent for multiple tap

Inventors: W. P. HERMAN, W. P. HERMAN

Status: Donate to the Sea Monster.

Kill-ratio: 19:2 / ~9:1

Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 238 For Calling Into Service the Left and Right Side of the Brain Simultaneously.

The usual shout out to John’s  and Richard’s blogs for kicking off this whole Alt-title Untitled kafuffle. “Joke” format at the end of  posts inspired by Ben‘s blog.

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Day 237 – Steel Cobblers’ Rivets

Rivets

Made in Canada, eh.

Steel Cobbler’s Rivets – Dominion Tack & Nail Co. Limited. Galt, Ontario

Each time I think I am close to the edge of running out of Obso items, I open up Mr. OP’s  toolbox and find something else that fits the bill. They were probably procured at the same garage sale as the American furniture nails.

This box can no longer contain the rivets.

Rivets

Rivets

Status: Borrowed. So return to toolbox. Take note of font for future use.

Kill-ratio: 24: 3/ 8:1

Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 237 for cobbling together stray thoughts.

The usual shout out to John’s  and Richard’s blogs for kicking off this whole Alt-title Untitled stuff. “Joke” format at the end of  posts inspired by Ben‘s blog.

 

Had this set to publish yesterday at 5pm. Logging in now I see it didn’t publish. Weird.

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Day 236 – Sudeurope plug

European Plug

Sudeurope 10/250 plug. There are two dots above the first u, the german I assume, umlaut. But I don’t know (!) how to code this in WP.

Mr. OP says it came inside a box of stuff from a garage sale. It has rounded edges for the plug, not sure how far back it dates.

Day 202 also has a vintage plug, probably from the same box. I’m also tagging this one bakelite, as it seems to be. But who knows.

European Plug

Status: Admire for quaintness.

Kill-ratio: 18:2 / 9:1

Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 236 For powering up forgotten memories.

Check out Edwina’s blog for lots of bakelite goodies.

The usual shout out to John’s  and Richard’s blogs for kicking off this whole Alt-title Untitled gobbledeegook. “Joke” format at the end of  posts inspired by Ben‘s blog.

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Day 235 – IBM Green Plastic Thing

IBM Green thing

Zeilenabstand means line-spacing and zeichenabstände  is character spacing according to google translate. So I guess this is a device to help you draw shapes and measure the line spacing between objects, or character spacing between letters at the same time.

IBM Green thing

Status: Create broadsheet size poster with all the shapes drawn from this Form – Nr. 78512 thing.

Kill-ratio: 28:2 / 14:1

Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 78512 for Drawing 235 Variations on a Shape.

The usual shout out to John’s  and Richard’s blogs for kicking off this whole Alt-title Untitled hullaballo. “Joke” format at the end of  posts inspired by Ben‘s blog.

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