SearchResearch Challenge (6/9/21): What's THAT?

I often find myself asking”What’s THAT?”

Perhaps you do too. Most of the time, a Google search tells us what the object of our interest is. But sometimes it doesn’t quite work the way you expect.

Here are three things that I had to recently identify. Can you figure out “What’s that?” for each of these pictures?

1. This is an image of a widget in my house. Unfortunately, it’s broken. I want to get a replacement, but I don’t want to go to the hardware store and say “it’s that thingie you turn to open the window.”

Can you figure out what the correct name of this thing-with-a-handle-you-turn-to-open-the-window?

2. I found this in my Mom’s garage this week. Here’s a decent close-up photo of the gadget. It’s about 3″ in diameter (7.6 cm). It’s a part of something larger. Can you figure out what it is? (And what it’s a part of?) I believe it used to be a glossy black color, but time has made it a little beat up. Any ideas?

3. This is a picture of a place I visited a while ago. Unfortunately, it was before I was using Google Photos, so I couldn’t just look this up. If you can tell the name of the place AND what kind of structure this is, I’m sure I’d recognize it. What’s that? AND… Where’s that?