[time-nuts] Conducting Bench Top Material

[Neville Michie]

No, my grandfather used to buy mechanics type magazines,
and I used to love reading them in the  50s, about the weird things  
you could make.
He also passed on a little of the old world technology to me.
He was a brass founder, making things like locks and hinges etc.
In the great depression (1920) he was "locked out". (went to work to
find his place of employment closed and bankrupt). He never cast  
metal again.
He went to night school and became an electrical contractor wiring  
houses
as the grid became available.
Shows how the wheel goes round and new technologies replace old ones,
and the workers have to adapt.
cheers, Neville Michie



On 26/01/2010, at 9:35 AM, gsteinba52 at aol.com wrote:

>          Good golly Neville,? you were a young boy in 1910??
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>   Jerry
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> From: Neville Michie <namichie at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Conducting Bench Top Material
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>   A great insight to the static electricity problem came from articles
> I read as a young boy in old (1910)articles such as "make yourself
> an electrophorous" in popular science mags.
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