It has been said the picture of good Father in the barber chair taking his picture was the very first selfee.
I will have to check, but I think American Milemaster was built with aluminum truck frames. They were quickly replaced and, as with front-feed coal stokers, swept as quickly and mercifully from popular railroad history as possible.
Guided by some of the research into duralumins in the WWI era, PRR made and tested a set of aluminum side rods (!) on an I1s Decapod (!!) I have only ever seen pictures of these under test with a great many strain gages across the web of the main. Let's say I'm not terribly surprised this experiment 'failed to thrive'...
Well this is surprising, someone's come up with a traditional sea chantey concerning the Ocean Gate sub disaster.
I don't know what to think about it. What does everyone else think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v11-ID5vq-k
Flintlock76I don't know what to think about it. What does everyone else think?
I couldn't make it past one verse. Hearing the deep breaths on the microphone before each line is horrible. I don't think the guy has the pipes for it.
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OvermodI will have to check, but I think American Milemaster was built with aluminum truck frames. They were quickly replaced and, as with front-feed coal stokers, swept as quickly and mercifully from popular railroad history as possible.
American Milemaster and duplicate Muskingum River were built with GSC steel trucks. The 1933 "George M Pullman" was definitely built with four wheel aluminum trucks, replaced by six wheel steel trucks.
Seems a tad mean spirited to me. It has a classic feel but it's right up there with the ballad of Casey Jones and Be British as far as being a popular tune a century after the event is concerned. They ain't no Gordon Lightfoot.
Same me, different spelling!
Going back to the Titanic, a start-up Israeli company is now astarting to manufacture a wrist bracelet that might have saved lives in both the Titanic and Titan tragedies.
And regarding water displacement, for those that miss a deleted thread, if you wear this bracelet, possibly you are zssured of continurd lifem regardless of swimming skills or depth of water, should you attemp to walk on water.
And the device may be standard for ocean ships and gtransp-ocean air travel.
The device might help someone to float, but they must be rescued before hypothermia sets in. I doubt it would have helped most Titanic victims.
Maybe if one had four, one on each limb (wrists and ankles), one could walk on water?
daveklepper Maybe if one had four, one on each limb (wrists and ankles), one could walk on water?
Wonder how easy it would be to avoid ending up with your wrists and ankles on the surface and the rest of you beneath them.
CS: Apologies. Respect your religious feelings.
Not about to try the experiment.
In order to work to avoid water hypothermia, the four bracelets would have to collectively displace more than the mass of the person concerned. That would make them, to put it lightly, unwieldy, and moreover it would be highly metastable, so a 'user' would have to constantly balance to keep themselves above water -- with their hands and feet in 29-degree constant immersion. (Of course they would have likely become wholly drenched jumping from the ship, so are now exposed to ambient air with a huge wetted surface area -- not likely to avoid hypothermia at least to the extent of making them unable to keep up the balancing act.
Recovery into a boat would be difficult with all the bulky floats tightly wrapped to wrists and ankles.
The premise of the Israeli invention is not to 'float' people above the water, but to keep them with their heads upright with just enough buoyancy to ensure their noses and mouths remain above water. If they are unconscious the solution won't help them much, because their arms will float over their heads if they swallow or inhale even a small amount of water or their clothes become waterlogged.
That makes sense, Thanks.
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