The Nagra SN - Peak Cold War Spy Technology
My SN midway through repairs I have always been a fan of beautiful engineering. That is one of the primary things that drives me to do the things I do, from writing and typewriter repair to photography. I have dived deeply into those last two things in this blog, primarily my work with typewriter repair. For as long as I can remember, there has always been this undying curiosity to see how things work. To get an inside look, to examine all these carefully created parts and understand their purpose, and to appreciate the mind that conceived them. Sometimes there are certain objects out there that encapsulate this appreciation so extremely; they demonstrate humanity's ability to dream of something brilliant and to execute it in total perfection. I have always been a lover of "form follows function," in that there is an innate beauty that a crafted object achieves from it's utilitarian simplicity. Much of that stems from an additional appreciation of subtl