Inside the digital clock from a Soyuz spacecraft
<i>While American resistors are usually labeled with colored bands, the Russian resistors are green cylinders with their values printed on them</i><p><i>One nice thing about Russian ICs is that the part numbers are assigned according to a rational system, unlike the essentially random numbering of American integrated circuits.</i><p>This makes so much sense, it's a shame this style of labeling didn't catch on. It would have made my EE labs in college so much easier.