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OK I have a few -
1) Nobody can explain how Glue works, we have a good knowledge about what compounds work best to make a Glue for certain materials but the science behind being sticky is still really unknown.
2) Until recently it was thought Steel may have originated in India, but there is a growing and improving school of thought that the Romans might have been first, it wasn't as bountiful as Indian efforts that where largly made from a accedent of geology and a variation of a Iron process but it was of higher quality the problem in proving it is it was a real high status material and was mostly a family secret, they suspect though that England and Southern Germany where the hearts of the Roman iron industry and Steel production didn't die out in those regions but got turned into a a HIGHLY secretive and low yeild trade only done by families of master an grand master style smiths.
2) Blacksmiths guilds where the most powerful guilds historically as they where the only trade that was able to be fully self sufficient, they where also the most educated people on average about Chemistry, Geology, and other sciences and where also likely to have extremely detailed and long winded trade deals stretching across continents.
3) The lathe is the most poorly defined Machine tool, the most versatile and is the only tool that is capable of building it's self and larger or smaller copies of it's self, it's also the only tool that can do anything another tool can do.
4) There is little to no wrought iron production on a large scale today, when you pay extra for a "Wrought Iron" gate, garden furniture, etc it's just a really bad grade of Mild Steel, there are some small scale places making it today but they are expensive, after that the other two main sources are smiths making there own (i.e. me) or people buying recycled boat chain that is dreaged up from harbours and alike where it was used as the main metallic component in anchor chains till just after WW1.
5) Nails are responsible for metalic currency - Nails are time consuming to make and today give you little in return for a hand driven process, as such they became a hot ticket item, so much so retreating army's and settlers would burn a building down to recover the nails - the families who made nails where a specialist form of smith, and the family often traded nails for essentials and could make or break a project depending on what they where paid for work.
6) During the industrial revoloution once a more automated means of producing nails was invented, a lot of the families that made nails moved into producing knitting needels, sewing needels and pishing hooks.
7) Your average tradesman before 1960 knew more practical and basic chemistry than a school leaver has today, they often had to make there own materials and finishes and where also partly responsible for "Open Source" information as they freely shared and compared notes in trade periodicals and in guild meetings.
The Carpenters brace was likely a English Invention, and we likely have some that where made by people related or educated by the people who discovered it from the Mary Rose, before that Augers where driven by a wooden dowel placed in the centre of a Ring Eye, there are also only two commercial manufactures of ring eye augers today one is the the Chez republic and the other is in Japan. Some people buy a auger bit and weld a pipe on the end but they are not considered Ring Eye augers.
9) Most anvils in history where smaller than 6" often more round 4" with a dedicated Horn anvil and other swages, the "Anvil" that comes to mind today is called a London Pattern and was a late 16th or early 17th century innovation, there was smaller older anvils with a lot of the same features all found in the North of England but they didn't have all the features to call them a London Patern and nobody is sure why the name London Patern stuck the closest we can find of it is from the 1770's calling a small 30lb Anvil a Improved London paten, it's suspected that it was a name given to it to lend some gravitas.
10) The most efficient and useful thread form in the world is the "Whitworth" thread form, Sir Joseph Whitworth did his homework for 20+ years before announcing his standard, America and France chose 60 degers rather than 55 because the French decided math rather than math and practical experiment wins (metric threads strip and are always anaemic for the task, that's why Imperial standards win in all serious machines), and it will bit and stick in all materials no mater it's strength, optimises efficiency in terms of inertring and removing by about %15 and has a Gas, Water and Solid seal by default by on average having a %75 engagement without adulteraion for Air.
Sir Joseph Whitworth also invented the Whitworth Rifle and the Surface Plate, and the accompanying maths, that most modern tech relies on, at the time the French where developing the metric system and struggling to find a definition for weight in there new and retarded system.
There was a WW1 U boat that was caught on the surface and a patrol boat shot it up with SMLE's willing 5 of the crew and detonating the magazine, and some of the rounds did penetrate the single skin hull. During WW2 most fishing boats whre armed with old SMEL's and inseduary rounds and some LEwis guns (I think 1 per 10 boats) the early U-Boats and mid war ones had problems leaking oil and fuel so the idea was to try and set them on fire and a few small ships did just that.
Dog's are really lovng and they also have a urge to heal you, Dog's saliva is really anti-septic and if they lick a cut they think it's infected and are trying to help you heal, they will also try and stroke you back in a way they think you find pleasing, they dont do this when feral or as wolves they do it because they want to make you happy.
The US government does that a lot, they tried suing someone for a moon flight worn Omega Moon Watch, they where given as a gift by a astronought who gave up some of his pay for it. Prior to it being flight issue kit, there are only 3 watches with that ability and they where all Old mercury guys 2 of them never flew on moon flights not even as a trial.
Food history is weird, like really weird - Potatoes where considerd Pig feed or a Aphrodisaic in Germany, the Catholic church tried to tell the italians that Tomatoes where poisen, salt fish was once it's self a currency worth more than gold and people used to fake dried cod with other fish etc.
Tobaco is a spice, and was a really common component in food for the first 20 years after introduction to Europe then smoking took over.
The IRA learned that 1st hand and that's why a lot of them where willing to accept Germans escaping WW2, Stalin offerd to suply the IRA and then Ireland with arms a few times and essentially took the gold etc, once he passed the first thing Soviet intellegence did was repair relations with the IRA and give them money,arms and technical assistance to piss off the only power in Europe that could prove a threat to them.
There is a growing intrest in Carded Wool matresses, I love them but they are getting around the material listing here in the UK and the EU by saying Carded Material, they are carding synthetic materials mixed with wool and calling them carded style, there are 3 comercial places making them one of them in in the UK, one in Germany and the lasts in Poland.
You pay them £10 a year to come out and restuff and recard it for you, they are heavy as fuck but are amazing to sleep on.
Most people in Ireland are related to English, Spanish or Italian people, mostly english as the English Catholics ran there for the most part and then where hired as mercenaries by various Italian and Spanish cathoic rulers, a lot of them where English Catholic and then came back with Italian or Spanish etc wifes if they botherd coming back at all.
They still use it, as a regional and succession name - the British public are well aware of there backgrouond, a lot of people are not happy with the Monarchy and all the tricks they play to seem relevant or useful, if anything the British Royal family are responsible for WW2 as they didn't want to break Germany up as they viewed a unified Germany as a crowning glory of there family (Wettin are the main branch of Sax-Coburg).
There is a argument growing the QE2 should be the last monarch, and there should be either a serious curtailing or total removal Royal power and most people don't realise that the RF still has an absurd amount of power.
1) Nobody can explain how Glue works, we have a good knowledge about what compounds work best to make a Glue for certain materials but the science behind being sticky is still really unknown.
2) Until recently it was thought Steel may have originated in India, but there is a growing and improving school of thought that the Romans might have been first, it wasn't as bountiful as Indian efforts that where largly made from a accedent of geology and a variation of a Iron process but it was of higher quality the problem in proving it is it was a real high status material and was mostly a family secret, they suspect though that England and Southern Germany where the hearts of the Roman iron industry and Steel production didn't die out in those regions but got turned into a a HIGHLY secretive and low yeild trade only done by families of master an grand master style smiths.
2) Blacksmiths guilds where the most powerful guilds historically as they where the only trade that was able to be fully self sufficient, they where also the most educated people on average about Chemistry, Geology, and other sciences and where also likely to have extremely detailed and long winded trade deals stretching across continents.
3) The lathe is the most poorly defined Machine tool, the most versatile and is the only tool that is capable of building it's self and larger or smaller copies of it's self, it's also the only tool that can do anything another tool can do.
4) There is little to no wrought iron production on a large scale today, when you pay extra for a "Wrought Iron" gate, garden furniture, etc it's just a really bad grade of Mild Steel, there are some small scale places making it today but they are expensive, after that the other two main sources are smiths making there own (i.e. me) or people buying recycled boat chain that is dreaged up from harbours and alike where it was used as the main metallic component in anchor chains till just after WW1.
5) Nails are responsible for metalic currency - Nails are time consuming to make and today give you little in return for a hand driven process, as such they became a hot ticket item, so much so retreating army's and settlers would burn a building down to recover the nails - the families who made nails where a specialist form of smith, and the family often traded nails for essentials and could make or break a project depending on what they where paid for work.
6) During the industrial revoloution once a more automated means of producing nails was invented, a lot of the families that made nails moved into producing knitting needels, sewing needels and pishing hooks.
7) Your average tradesman before 1960 knew more practical and basic chemistry than a school leaver has today, they often had to make there own materials and finishes and where also partly responsible for "Open Source" information as they freely shared and compared notes in trade periodicals and in guild meetings.
The Carpenters brace was likely a English Invention, and we likely have some that where made by people related or educated by the people who discovered it from the Mary Rose, before that Augers where driven by a wooden dowel placed in the centre of a Ring Eye, there are also only two commercial manufactures of ring eye augers today one is the the Chez republic and the other is in Japan. Some people buy a auger bit and weld a pipe on the end but they are not considered Ring Eye augers.9) Most anvils in history where smaller than 6" often more round 4" with a dedicated Horn anvil and other swages, the "Anvil" that comes to mind today is called a London Pattern and was a late 16th or early 17th century innovation, there was smaller older anvils with a lot of the same features all found in the North of England but they didn't have all the features to call them a London Patern and nobody is sure why the name London Patern stuck the closest we can find of it is from the 1770's calling a small 30lb Anvil a Improved London paten, it's suspected that it was a name given to it to lend some gravitas.
10) The most efficient and useful thread form in the world is the "Whitworth" thread form, Sir Joseph Whitworth did his homework for 20+ years before announcing his standard, America and France chose 60 degers rather than 55 because the French decided math rather than math and practical experiment wins (metric threads strip and are always anaemic for the task, that's why Imperial standards win in all serious machines), and it will bit and stick in all materials no mater it's strength, optimises efficiency in terms of inertring and removing by about %15 and has a Gas, Water and Solid seal by default by on average having a %75 engagement without adulteraion for Air.
Sir Joseph Whitworth also invented the Whitworth Rifle and the Surface Plate, and the accompanying maths, that most modern tech relies on, at the time the French where developing the metric system and struggling to find a definition for weight in there new and retarded system.
There was a WW1 U boat that was caught on the surface and a patrol boat shot it up with SMLE's willing 5 of the crew and detonating the magazine, and some of the rounds did penetrate the single skin hull. During WW2 most fishing boats whre armed with old SMEL's and inseduary rounds and some LEwis guns (I think 1 per 10 boats) the early U-Boats and mid war ones had problems leaking oil and fuel so the idea was to try and set them on fire and a few small ships did just that.
Dog's are really lovng and they also have a urge to heal you, Dog's saliva is really anti-septic and if they lick a cut they think it's infected and are trying to help you heal, they will also try and stroke you back in a way they think you find pleasing, they dont do this when feral or as wolves they do it because they want to make you happy.
The US government does that a lot, they tried suing someone for a moon flight worn Omega Moon Watch, they where given as a gift by a astronought who gave up some of his pay for it. Prior to it being flight issue kit, there are only 3 watches with that ability and they where all Old mercury guys 2 of them never flew on moon flights not even as a trial.
Food history is weird, like really weird - Potatoes where considerd Pig feed or a Aphrodisaic in Germany, the Catholic church tried to tell the italians that Tomatoes where poisen, salt fish was once it's self a currency worth more than gold and people used to fake dried cod with other fish etc.
Tobaco is a spice, and was a really common component in food for the first 20 years after introduction to Europe then smoking took over.
The IRA learned that 1st hand and that's why a lot of them where willing to accept Germans escaping WW2, Stalin offerd to suply the IRA and then Ireland with arms a few times and essentially took the gold etc, once he passed the first thing Soviet intellegence did was repair relations with the IRA and give them money,arms and technical assistance to piss off the only power in Europe that could prove a threat to them.
There is a growing intrest in Carded Wool matresses, I love them but they are getting around the material listing here in the UK and the EU by saying Carded Material, they are carding synthetic materials mixed with wool and calling them carded style, there are 3 comercial places making them one of them in in the UK, one in Germany and the lasts in Poland.
You pay them £10 a year to come out and restuff and recard it for you, they are heavy as fuck but are amazing to sleep on.
Most people in Ireland are related to English, Spanish or Italian people, mostly english as the English Catholics ran there for the most part and then where hired as mercenaries by various Italian and Spanish cathoic rulers, a lot of them where English Catholic and then came back with Italian or Spanish etc wifes if they botherd coming back at all.
They still use it, as a regional and succession name - the British public are well aware of there backgrouond, a lot of people are not happy with the Monarchy and all the tricks they play to seem relevant or useful, if anything the British Royal family are responsible for WW2 as they didn't want to break Germany up as they viewed a unified Germany as a crowning glory of there family (Wettin are the main branch of Sax-Coburg).
There is a argument growing the QE2 should be the last monarch, and there should be either a serious curtailing or total removal Royal power and most people don't realise that the RF still has an absurd amount of power.
