The Spama Lot League?
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What league was he in????
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At 11:20 AM 9/4/2007, Karl Hunsinger wrote:
>A very noble story. But is it also said that Octavius had perfect pitch?
:)
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>Karl
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>My first job was as a CTE (Catapult Test Engineer) for a King who wanted
>to improve the accuracy of his artillery. Earlier he had told his Court
>to learn how flutes on an arrow improved flight and accuracy and apply
>the lessons learned to the Catapult. So the call went out to build the
>best Flute.
>Lacking adequate requirements definition, some of the best piccolos
>started to show up.
>The king grabbed one and threw it and down to symbolic defeat. In doing
>so it made a very shrill sound and hit his boot (this became the first
>footnote in history). So my job was to test and install flutes on
>Catapults.
>The obvious thing was use it for pitch and altitude adjustment. After
>the scale models were made it was time for testing.
>I had many youths available to me that were on loan from the Knight
>shift. They were chosen for their mass (not choice of funeral services
>needed, but weight) and digital skills. At launch they were to precisely
>hold the flute to the air. We had to go through a lot of pages before we
>got the directions right. The number of notes they could hit established
>velocity and the length of the song gave distance (this was the creation
>of the term Artillery range); how they landed was on their own accord.
>So now you could adjust the trajectory to B flat or have A sharp rise in
>elevation. One of my best helpers, Octavius could always tell which team
>would win the accuracy contest.
>And so it was to come to be known that I was the first person credited
>with the ability to fine-tune the instruments of destruction.
>Dewey
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>From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brian Ellis
>Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 12:31 AM
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>Subject: [TN] OT: reminiscences
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>When I was a student, in 1948, I took a summer job with a company making
>
>aircraft gyroscopic gunsights. My work involved:
>1. mixing potassium bichromate with fish glue
>2. applying a coat of this mix to a very thin blackened steel sheet
>3. after drying, exposing same to UV light through glass photographic
>plates with registration pins, turning over and doing the same on
>t'other side (different plate)
>4. developing the image with hot water
>5. etching the sheet in nitric acid
>6. rinsing in clean water
>7. stripping the resist in boiling strong sodium hydroxide solution
>
>The result was about twenty graticules with two curved, very fine,
>slots. If two were placed back-to-back, depending on their respective
>positions, two dots of light shone through. These were projected on a
>half-silvered mirror and the gunner would turn a knob to align the two
>dots of light with the wingtips of the enemy aircraft, to get the range.
>
>This was a very hazardous job but it was my first (but not last!)
>experience of using a photoresist for etching a metal. Can anyone beat
>this kind of work, going back 59 years? :-)
>
>Brian
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