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  1. There was a recent tech conference in PEI -- Zap Your PRAM that I wish I could have gone to. I sort of heard about it in passing from the usual bloggerati. This feeling of wistfulness comes almost exclusively from this "live blogging" of a talk by Robert Paterson transcribed by Seb Paquet.. All sorts of concepts are covered, from my title for this post, likening blogs to the invention of ...
  2. cs.trains.com

    Once while I was waiting on a siding for an opposing train, I went around and put a set of torpedoes under each wheel of my 3 locomotives. When I finally started to move, all 72 torpedoes went off in two seperate, but rather impressive blast's. In retrospect, I suppose I should not have done that in a residential neighborhood.
  3. cs.trains.com

    A torpedo was laid on the railhead and the metal bands could be wrapped around it to hold the torpedo in place. They would explode when run over, even at a barely moving speed. They are approximately as loud as a 12-gauge shotgun. The signal sent to the engineer by torpedoes required two of them in succession something like 150 feet apart.
  4. Oct 29, 2023You had the explosive the detonator set off, the gyroscope of the torpedo to make sure it was running in a straight line, the fuel and an accompanying motor to power the torpedo so it can move at the desired speed, and a depth sensor, which kept the torpedo running at the correct depth so it wouldn't go underneath the ship and not hit ...
  5. cs.trains.com

    Once upon a time under the rules, a single torpedo detonation was a signal to stop. Two torpedo detonations was a signal to reduce speed and look out for a flagman/obstruction for a specified distance. Many rules for years required two torpedos were to be place a specified distance (150 ft is what I'm used to) apart on the engineer's side.
  6. forum.axishistory.com

    But sometimes the torpedo would detonate as soon as it was armed. (Torpedo thinks "Oooh, now I'm armed, it must be time to explode!" Boom.) 4. The torpedoes ran at the wrong depth, usually deeper than the depth set. So they ran underneath the target instead of into it. And if the magnetic detonator wasn't working, the torpedo would not explode.
  7. archive.nytimes.com

    Aug 6, 201410 a.m. After three hours of raging combat, with over 300 Union casualties, the Tennessee surrendered. Commander Johnston reported later on his decision, "with an almost bursting heart, to hoist the white flag, and … placed it in the same spot where but a few moments before had floated the proud flag for whose honor I would so cheerfully ...
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