December 2011
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Hatting wasn't the only profession with people who...
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Lighthouse keepers with rotating beam lights in the 19th and 20th centuries were constantly exposed to toxic vapors, because the friction-reducing pool that the lamps rested on was pure mercury. The heat of the lamps sped the evaporation of the mercury significantly.
Sure, it’s not the acute dose of mercury that carroting gives you, but almost every lighthouse keeper suffered...
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Bicycles it is...at least for now!
Looks like you guys already know a lot about the ridiculous and bizarre origins of the many parts of the modern bicycle. But they all came together to form a pretty functional machine in the end, n’est pas? Well, at least I find it functional.
Sort of for personal reference, but mostly for you guys, I’ll leave my sources for bicycle history illustrations here. I actually have one of...
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Early 20th-century cars, or 19th century bicycles?
I got a few interesting old books/service guides recently. I’ll get to both of them eventually, but as both require a fair deal of editing to make decent posts, I only want to do one for now.
So! Which one shall I post from next week?
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