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Hi all:
Several days ago someone wrote to the list who had been using automotive
clear coat to protect wood placed outdoors. I emailed them for further
information and product sources but I never received a reply. I have lost
their email address but was hoping that someone on the list received
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Arthur Carlson wrote:
Tony Moss wrote:
I found a couple of web sites on signal mirrors.
http://www.equipped.com/signal.htm#ReflectionsOfLight
describes how they work and how to use them. I also made a sketch of how
I think it works. The attached bit map file shows
Hello dialists:
The Arizona Daily Star did a little story today on a great website which
will give you the exact time of sunrise and sunset for 130,406 U.S.
locations for any date! David Shaw's easy-to-use site also indicates the
exact latitude and longitude of these locations. It is fun to
I am lucky enough to own a heliograph, having recently bought it from
another BSS member. It dates from WW1, and looks just like the one in Peter
Mayer's jpeg with the exception that the sighting vane is more complex, with
a set of cross wires and a fold-down vane on which the dark spot from an
Dialling friends,
Like many of you, I have seen the signalling mirros with holes in the
centre etc. I have never used one, but I have a mirror successfully
to call in helicopters.
During field work in Antarctica, we didn't have radios, so we
made up some signalling mirrors. Just a
To pursue this thread just a bit further, does anyone know of a source to
buy any of these devices we've been discussing. It was so long ago that
I saw one that I'd have no idea where to start looking.
Thanks,
John
Bravo, Richard! It's the very one I had in mind. Thank you.
(This one's not so vernacular.)
A Code of Morals
by Rudyard Kipling
[snip]
Peter
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Frank Evans wrote:
Maybe somebody can remember more of Kipling's poem referred to earlier
than I can. Or even the title. It was about India, I'm fairly sure.
Part went something like:
Are you there, are you there, are you there?
Three sides of a ninety mile square,
With a
Thank you Richard. What an excellent ode on retirement. Your second posting
is an excellent warning on the security and privacy of e-mail.
Score another point for the eclectic nature of this list.
Roger Bailey
Here it is. It's a bit more dialectal than you remember! ;-)
Chant-Pagan
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Thank you, Prof. Langley, for illuminating yet another marvelous facet
of this List.
Kipling, the author of the ritual for the calling of a Canadian
engineer, was a clever dude, eh?
Tom
Bob.
I found a couple of web sites on signal mirrors.
http://www.equipped.com/signal.htm#ReflectionsOfLight
describes how they work and how to use them. I also made a sketch of how
I
think it works. The attached bit
map file shows this.
I understood the principle immediately from your diagram.
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