This is great!  Every time I saw something like that on the powerline
I would wonder what electrical purpose it served.  I need to broaden
my thoughts!

The second link appears to be classical music, and a 30 second clip of
Die Walk=FCre (Ride of the Valkyries) is just not as inspiring as the
whole thing.

Now I'm gloing to have to find it amongst my other music.

-Adam

On 11/1/07, Alan B. Pearce <A.B.Pearce@rl.ac.uk> wrote:
> The link below leads into an interesting set of pages about vibration mod=
es
> and mass dampers. One of the pages has a heap of movies looking at various
> experiments with motion and damping.
>
> How to stop a wine glass ringing ...
> http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~hemh/tmd.htm
>
> or http://www.tinyurl.com/czvkt
>
> Link found while browsing a science magazine in our library, where a read=
er
> had sent in a question about strange objects attached to the suspension
> wires on the Severn Estuary road suspension bridge - which turn out to be
> Stockbridge Dampers, or a variation thereof (see link at bottom of page to
> go to interesting 6 to 8 page discussion of these and variations).
>
> No I am not attempting to outdo Russell, just figured these would be
> interesting to people here.
>
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