Taking Your Temperature by bmac62
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See the little round thing on top of the radiator cap? All the driver of a 1914 Fiat had to do to check his/her engine temperature was look at the gizmo on top of the radiator cap...if red showed in the little round window, the engine was overheating...a very common malady in early automobiles.
Note: Fiat built automobiles in the USA in Poughkeepsie, New York from 1908 until 1918.
Comments (19)
giulband
Great image for its historical value and very fine realization in ancient hue!!
kgb224
Superb capture my friend. God bless.
durleybeachbum
If Tara and you get to stay with me one day we will have an outing to the Beaulieu Motor Museum and the aircraft museum at Hurn, double bliss for you.
aksirp
and some time it was boiling:-) great monochrome and old FIAT!
FredNunes
Excellent, Bill.
jayfar
Great shot and explanation Bill
Faemike55
Outstanding capture Bill very cool? idea
auntietk
Great composition and dof ... it makes for a wonderful abstract! Oh ... it's a car? Yes ... well ... that's nice, dear! :*
flavia49
wonderful
goodoleboy
Nice monolike shot of the antique Fiat with the thermometer on top of its radiator, Bill. I didn't know Fiat had been around that long.
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Now it's a light on the dash, that you rearly pay attention too or is obscured by the steering column. Today of course the same device would be digital, expensive, and not fitted as standard. Excellent work buddy.
CarolusB
Brilliant piece of historical trivia - and now that they have merged with cHrysler, they might do so again (I think they want to expand their Alfa Romeo brand in N America). Picture is brill too ;-))
T.Rex
Oh, so THAT's what that thing-a-ma-jig was! I've seen it when I was a kid back in the 1950s but never knew. Thanks for the post and the explanation! :-)
Sea_Dog
Very nice shot. It has an antique feel that matches the subject perfectly.
jendellas
What Andrea says is so true, you would love Beaulieu. X
MrsRatbag
How cool this is, and I love it in mono. I guess automotive design took care of that problem early on, we hardly even glance at the temperature gauges now! Great shot!
RodS Online Now!
What a cool shot of this heat-detecting bit of older technology! Wonderful detail, and the slightly sepia toned B&W really gives it a historic feel! An excellent capture, Bill!
debbielove
What a super shot! Love the neat way you decide, back n white was the way to show it.. Thanks for the info as well.. Rob
anahata.c
Fascinating record of a long-gone device (the thermometer). It's also a beautiful device. Classy looking, up there at the helm. As a photo, it's a big splash of chrome-y collisions, intersecting lines, sepia-gold shadows and a big logo and grill dominating in front. A big glittering collection of car-dom, and I really like this shot---a "glorious din," as one friend would call it. A photo like this emphasizes the collision of forms and the 'din' of all that reflective chrome and steel; you let the metal just do its thing, colliding, rushing around, each piece angling for its 'shot', the un-focussed areas suddenly becoming generic 'parts', machine as abstraction...and you put it in sepia tones which gives an aged gold patina to the thing. I really like this! An old car street-fest. A giddy carnival-like upload.