Hitachi - Magic wand, Hydraulic excavators, Scanning Electron Microscopes.
My 3 favorite activities.
Mitsubishi: pens, cars, nuclear power plants.
ACs, planes, CNCs, and solar and wind energy, too.
But like many Japanese corporations, they are legally distinct but interlocked companies, see Keiretsu.
Just Zaibatsu things…
“Yeah can I get uhhh, a medium sized family sedan, an air conditioner, and a capesize containership?”
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.
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
You’re not supposed to put that thing into your hole.
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Seems like it would be a violent torturous way to make orifices much larger than they’re supposed to be 😳
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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
Wich turned it basically into an US exclusive product, and pretty much impossible to get outside of there
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.)
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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.
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We’ve been storing and drinking beverages in aluminum cans for like a century now and this hasn’t been a big problem.
Yeah, for sure. Though if you drink it fast enough, it won’t warm the drink noticeably before it’s gone.
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As measured by the average suck point.
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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.
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.
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
Honestly, I really love glass. What a fantastic material.
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
Homies out here calling a Ball jar a Mason jar… Smh. Practically spitting on the abandoned ruins of Muncie, IN.
Ball doesn’t even make Mason jars anymore, though.
They do and don’t. Ball doesn’t really exist as much more than a brand. Ball branded jars are still a thing.
Hell Ardagh still uses some of the super old ass Ball equipment.
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?
May be a region thing. A Ball jar is equally genericized and supplants mason especially when used literally. There are still Ball branded ball jars here… not mason… I’ll check but I don’t think they even use mason in the description.
Muncie, Indiana
iswas 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.If you don’t have a Ball cookbook, do you really cook?
But what style is a Ball Jar?
If Ball makes a Mason jar, its still a Mason jar, so are all other jars made by Ball just ambiguously “Ball” jars? Or is there a specific design that is referred to as a Ball jar?
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.
