Foot Power

Here is a really cool video:

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5WJUFvKzWk

Go back 100 years => movies were still silent.  This one does have sound but no narration although it does have notes on the process (sorta like title cards in silent movies) - turn on CC to see them.

This fellow is the silent screen version of Roy Underhill from PBS :)

This video also reminds me of G5BD who has been mentioned before:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2024/05/saw-gil-cartoon-in-qst.html

also see: http://wb9kzy.com/g5bd.htm

Can you say: Foot Mangle ?  :)

Here's another G5BD page with a 1928 QSL mentioning foot powered:

https://hamgallery.com/qsl/country/England/g5bd.htm

And of course our Glen Gates Gang Field Day natural power efforts (the armstrong method was used rather than foot power):

the lashup - it did work !

Rick Evans with the drill press back in the barn powering a ringing generator

Forget horsepower 21st century people, human power still works.

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm