http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Nerdy Days Out en Thu, 21 May 2026 11:53:00 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3820#post-40101 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:47:52 +0000 Arellcat 40101@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The slightly scary thing is how many of those places I've actually been to!</p> <p>I even still have the clutch pencil that I bought at the museum in Cumberland about 25 years ago.</p> <p>I thought the Anderton Boat Lift would have been there, though. Need to add that one. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3820#post-40096 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:35:04 +0000 Cyclingmollie 40096@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Toy-Museum/10150111463445004">Museum of Space Toys</a> in Moffat should be on the list. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3820#post-40093 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:19:05 +0000 chdot 40093@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's a small plaque where it happened -<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/4629734579/in/photostream"><br /> <img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4629734579_2843ea6f4a.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3820#post-40092 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:11:08 +0000 spytefear 40092@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The soliton wave stuff is cool - there was a big noticeboard up in Heriot Watt about this years ago, it's probably still there.<br /> Looking at the map Scotland is missing a lot of things like the secret bunkers you can visit... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3820#post-40090 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:09:53 +0000 kaputnik 40090@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_measured_mile">measured mile</a> at St. Abb's Head. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3820#post-40079 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:37:36 +0000 Cyclingmollie 40079@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oops, double post. But can I add there's a photo of a group of people on giant unicycles at the bottom of the page. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3820#post-40077 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:28:58 +0000 Cyclingmollie 40077@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What a great map, thanks for sharing. I think <a href="http://www.solar.york.ac.uk/">this</a> could be added (cycling related too) unless I missed it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3820#post-39982 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:11:42 +0000 SRD 39982@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"After a delay which would probably be unacceptable to present day funding bodies, and in a field he could never have dreamed of, Scott Russell's observations and research of 160 years ago have hit the big time in the present day fibre-optic communications industry. The qualities of the soliton wave which excited him (the fact that it does not break up, spread out or lose strength over distance) make it ideal for fibre-optic communications networks where billions of solitons per second carry information down fibre circuits for cable TV, telephone and computers ("The secrets of everlasting life", New Scientist 15 April 1995). It is fitting that a fibre-optic cable linking Edinburgh and Glasgow now runs beneath the very tow-path from which John Scott Russell made his initial observations, and along the aqueduct which now bears his name."</p> <p>'Probably' !!!?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3820#post-39981 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:03:34 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 39981@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fun map of <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;source=embed&amp;oe=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=215852972454844352763.00049dcfacd780ace0763">stuff to do</a>. Surely needs a brick tour!!!</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/solitons/press.html">Soliton Wave</a> is fun. </p>