What is it?

[scifan57]

Here's another picture.

 

[scifan57]

Two more pictures.

 

[AdmiralAdama]

Is it something nautical ?
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[scifan57]

It's not nautical,but it is military.

 

[AdmiralAdama]

Is it a dummy artillery projectile used for range practice? This is a wild guess.

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[scifan57]

It's not a dummy,It's disarmed,of course,and the fuse is missing.
It has been fired.
It dates from the mid to late 19th century and was used in a rifled muzzle loading cannon.





Your answer was close enough,your turn,Admiral.

 

[AdmiralAdama]

My morning is suddenly complicated again. Rather than put the thread in park sci, you can open the challenge or issue another. Somehow I'm sure there's something of interest in the Viking souvenir chest.
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[Richard Brown]

It looks like a bulb used in an electric fire with "coals". In such fires, the bulb was placed on it's side under a spinner vane which, when the bulb was hot, rotated to give a flickering flame effect.

The fires were called flame effect electric fires. They were very popular in the mid 1950s to late 1960s.

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[AdmiralAdama]

OK here's an easy one to start the day.
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[Richard Brown]

It's a double socket outlet, for an electric current 110 volt rated.

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[AdmiralAdama]

Yes. Why is it red?
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[Richard Brown]

I'm not sure, but does the colour indicate a clean supply for computer systems? The red indicates non standard usage.

Because the outlet isn't shrouded or contained in a weatherproof enclosure, it should be situated inside a building.

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[AdmiralAdama]

Close enough. This red receptacle, one of many in the building I work in, identifies a "clean - emergency" power supply for electronics only.
Lights and consumer appliances such as kettles or coffee makers, are forbidden.

Over to you Richard.

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[Richard Brown]

Thanks Admiral,

Here's mine

It's fairly straightforward.

What is the blurred object part of? What would it's use be? What material is it made from?



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[scifan57]

It looks like one of those cast iron gratings you see placed around the bases of trees.