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The Queen's Hamlet

The Queen’s Hamlet is a charming attraction in the park of the Palace of Versailles, built for Marie Antoinette in the 18th century. It consists of a group of rustic cottages and farm buildings, arranged around an artificial lake, that served as a place of leisure and education for the queen and her children. The hamlet was inspired by the naturalistic movement in art and architecture, and by the model farms that were popular among the French aristocracy at the time. The hamlet was also a way for Marie Antoinette to escape the formalities and pressures of the court life, and to enjoy a simpler and more intimate lifestyle. The hamlet was designed by Richard Mique and Hubert Robert, who also modified the landscape of the Petit Trianon, where the hamlet is located. The hamlet has three distinct areas: the reception area, where the queen entertained her guests in the boudoir, the billiard room, and the Queen’s House; the farm area, where the animals and crops were raised and the dair
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Black boxes were developed in Australia in the early 1950s. It was, simply, just painted black. 

The original version was a recorder designed with physical magnetic tape, with microphones placed randomly around the cockpit. It was encased in a fireproof box, and paint itself is used in every industry to protect bare metal and stop rust. That's just the color they painted it when it was developed.

Black Boxes are actually known in the aerospace industry as Flight Data and Cockpit Voice Recorders. The Cockpit Voice Recorder records foud channels of audio for a duration of two hours, while the Flight Data Recorder records 25 hours of data… and may record several thousand parameters.

As to why the media calls recorders Black Boxes, the name may have its origin in early engineering design philosophies, where boxes that contained electronic components were termed "black boxes" or possibly by their original color which was black. All voice and data recorders are painted a bright orange which helps search and recovery teams identify the recorders when searching an accident scene.
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