Maybe it was a long lost relative of Dewey? Gotta give them their props for
creativity though.... :-)
Dharma
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [TN] NTC: Coefficients of thermal expansion
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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