Ooooh, don't even start!!
I live in an old seaport village...the houses were built by boatbuilders to house the workers.. Lots of true 2by4, old with splinters, and occasional diagonal 4by4 on exterior walls to prevent racking... It's fun to see the variation over the years...heat was a central grate, then steam, then hydronic baseboard.. Ele was none, then knob and tube, then BX, now romex.. Indoor bathrooms suddenly appeared at random places.. It is actually fun to see what was done. Well, all except the butchering of the ele, some of the "mods" were quite dangerous.
John
I have a collection of golden age internal combustion engine books. not unlike audio, most things were worked out by 1930, just didn't have the assembly or control technology to make use of it. Hand drawn graphs with one scale in Rankin take some adjusting to after being used to modern texts 🙂
Not unlike my last 3 houses. Currently the bathroom is where the front door used to be! You can still see where the copper was in the outhouse. Round here we call it character!
Not only did we have houses, but that new-fangled invention called electricity was getting to be pretty popular. ;-)
Credit where credit due.
A lot of people now have no idea, too young, or little remembrance, senile, how small and scattered the pools of information were then compared to today, with a greater dependency on linked information as the search engines were fragmented whilst still fighting for dominance...
Not sure if this belongs here but may fit well:
Headphones that get you high on dopamine are tipped to go on sale next month - ScienceAlert
Headphones that get you high on dopamine are tipped to go on sale next month - ScienceAlert
Huh, so... electrocution is in fashion now?
Gunna mod my headphones to test that effect, stators get ~100vrms signal + the 580dc bias.. 😀
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moot_point
...but somehow I like "mute point" better. Just like when my wife refers to something as being "a blimp on the radar" 🙂
I have to quote ghostbusters
Dr. Peter Venkman: Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head. Remember that?
Dr. Egon Spengler: That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head. Remember that?
Dr. Egon Spengler: That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me.
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