Awwwww, bummer. Sounded good though...
Makes you wonder who it was that came up with a story like this, and why
they would.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Dharma Kemp-Bresett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:12 PM
To: Steve Gregory
Subject: RE: [TN] NTC: Coefficients of thermal expansion
Hi Steve,
I just checked snopes and it looks like, as amusing as it is, this
tidbit may be false....
http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/brass.asp
Thanks,
Dharma
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:02 PM
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Subject: [TN] NTC: Coefficients of thermal expansion
Good Day All!
I was going to wait until Friday, but seeing how it's "hump" day, I
thought I'd break up the week and post this little tidbit of information
that one of the engineers that I work with sent me....
Steve
It was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon balls near the cannon
on old war ships.
But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the problem. The
best storage method devised was to stack them as a square based pyramid,
with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which rested on
sixteen.
Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right
next to the cannon.
There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom layer from
sliding/rolling from under the others.
The solution was a metal plate with 16 round indentations, called, for
reasons unknown, a Monkey. But, if this plate were made of iron, the
iron balls would quickly rust to it. The solution to the rusting problem
was to make them of brass - hence, Brass Monkeys.
Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster
than iron when chilled. Consequently, when the temperature dropped too
far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannon
balls would come right off the monkey.
Thus, it was quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a
brass monkey. And all this time, you thought that was just a vulgar
expression, didn't you? You must send this fabulous bit of historical
knowledge to at least a few uneducated friends.
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