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[stub for offtopicness] [[Come on you guys - you should know better than to post lazy internet ripostes to shallowly provocative titles. This is a fine and interesting historical article.]] [[[I've edited the title now so it starts fewer fires]]]
Funny, I'm Dutch and have an arts degree so obviously the name Van der Heyden is familiar to me, but I didn't know he was also an engineer who modernized our firefighting systems. Having said that, "Dutch golden age painter invented better way to pump water out of the Amsterdam canals" sounds more like someone tried to cram as many stereotypes about the Dutch into a sentence than an accurate summary of something that…
You sure he wasn't also a wearing his clogs while biking to his tulip farm before going home to make stroopwafels while eating Gouda?
About 200 years after the Van der Heyden brothers turned firefighting into municipal infrastructure, Amsterdam did the same for horses falling into canals. Paardenreddingstoestel means "horse rescue apparatus." Johan Christoph Sinck's own technical term was verplaatsbare hijsinrichting, "portable lifting apparatus." The machine became known as het toestel van Sinck ("Sinck's device"), with the nickname het zinktoeste…
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As are many of the modern fatbike riders ;)
Indeed, fatbike riders come in all colours. Though I have noticed that it is mainly transportation for the poor.
>Called a ‘snake’ (slang in Dutch) Disappointingly this isn't the origin of the English word slang. It seems to be of Viking origin.
>Called a ‘snake’ (slang in Dutch) Disappointingly this isn't the origin of the English word slang. It seems to be of Viking origin.
About 200 years after the Van der Heyden brothers turned firefighting into municipal infrastructure, Amsterdam did the same for horses falling into canals. Paardenreddingstoestel means "horse rescue apparatus." Johan Christoph Sinck's own technical term was verplaatsbare hijsinrichting, "portable lifting apparatus." The machine became known as het toestel van Sinck ("Sinck's device"), with the nickname het zinktoeste…
Why didn't they just build railings and fences so that horses don't fall into canals?