W. Grey Walter Tortoises – Picture Gallery #1
The next Grey Walter and his tortoises posts are taking a little time. In the mean time, here are some photo’s non-specific to other posts.
Tag: Tortoise
Time-Lapse Photographs of ELMER with ELSIE
I have only come across two time-lapse photographs with both ELMER and ELSIE. One has to be careful in interpreting time-lapse photographs as there are possibly different events happening at different times, off picture interference, and possibly different start times of each tortoise. An important observation highlighted by Owen Holland is the direction of rotation …
W. Grey Walter, I.B.M., Charles Eames & The Tortoise
Why are all these names together in a post title? Well, one of the 1951 batch of 6 tortoises was sent off to a museum. Actually, is was on loan to Charles Eames (yes, the same Eames who was a designer, amongst other things) who was contracted to design and mount an exhibition for the …
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W. Grey Walter and the Festival of Britain (1951)
The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition which opened in London and around Britain on 3 May 1951 and finished the end of September the same year. At that time, shortly after the end of World War II, much of London was still in ruins and redevelopment was badly needed. The Festival was an …
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CORA the tortoise – Machina Docilis – Grey Walter (British)
There is more to talk about and show regarding ELMER and ELSIE , the M. speculatrix models. So that I can talk about them further, I feel that I need to introduce CORA the tortoise at this time. Why, do you ask, do I keep qualifying CORA -'the tortoise' ? Some of you out there …
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