Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014)
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Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014)
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#4I'm surprised that there aren't more comments. This was an article both humorous and informative about creating something (dynamite) which made the modern world possible.
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#5Milking stools[1] (especially the strap-on variety) can also be one legged.
> "[He'd] give a warning shout and run. So would everybody, you included."
reminded me of MAXIM 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23503989
[1] another reason for single-legged stools: less likely to trip you up if you need to jump quickly away from a kicking cow. I wouldn't be surprised if nitro factory staff prized that reason, but told management they used them to not fall asleep.
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#6OT, but has “tools” become a normalised suffix for anyone else? It took me a second parse at the title — after wondering for longer than I’d like to admit at what “s-tools” were — to realise it’s referring to furniture.
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#7I'm surprised that there aren't more comments. This was an article both humorous and informative about creating something (dynamite) which made the modern world possible.
I’m not sure I can trust this site to be historically accurate, given http://lateralscience.blogspot.com/2013/02/victorian-product...
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#8I liked this typo: “A sample is taken of each lot of nitroglycerin when mad.”
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#9I liked this typo: “ A sample is taken of each lot of nitroglycerin when mad. ”
I assumed the "mad" part was just some archaic term.
Curious whether it does actually mean something or if it is just a typo.
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#10Milking stools[1] (especially the strap-on variety) can also be one legged. > "[He'd] give a warning shout and run. So would everybody, you included." reminded me of MAXIM 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23503989 [1] another reason for single-legged stools: less likely to trip you up if you need to jump quickly away from a kicking cow. I wouldn't be surprised if nitro factory staff prized that reason, but tol…
The maxims are The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries¹, the third of which is originally from the Schlock Mercenary webcomic strip of November 1, 2009².
1. https://www.ovalkwiki.com/index.php/The_Seventy_Maxims_of_Ma...