I bought one yesterday!!!! It is really rather lovely and it cost an alarming amount of money. That said I really am the wrong person to answer this question as I think traction engines are a good idea however , these tempt me
In essence, yes.
No, nobody accidentally owns a gun, one can inherit a gun, be given a gun, be asked to look after a gun, find a gun in a drain, take it from the dead hand of one’s rather unusual uncle. Now, You have a gun, whether you destroy it or not is your choice, if you choose not to your ownership is not accidental
At what point did I mention long guns?
Oh yes!
I think that might get to the core of my argument, if half of your country can shrug in the face of mass murder, and self justify their inaction there is a problem. I am almost at the point of suggesting that the reset button should be pressed, not on the human race, but politically. Demand that your representative is…
And Americans can own guns?
I have a very very vague back of the filing cabinet brain dim lightbulb thought, not Florida, Louisiana. I am sure I have seen this somwhere before? Or could it be South Carolina? No, I still think Louisiana.
Black smoke from a steam engine is a sign of an overstoked firebox, the same as a poorly tuned diesel engine, the black bits are partially unburnt hydrocarbons. The locomotives intially ran on coke, but then on Welsh steam coal, the latter having a very high temerature full burn heat (up to 2500 degrees centigrade)…
In the 1870's us Brits had a wholly different idea of
Dammit, I meant Rivian! The car company that makes zero-cars!
“zero-crashes, zero-emissions and zero-congestion future”
Also this, you have to sign up but it is free and you can sort of join in.
WE ARE NOT ALL DYING!!!!!!!
Indeed.
Many of my tools are older than I am, but then so are most of my mechanical toys.I have a large (3") open ended drop forged spanner marked ‘L&BR’. The London and Brighton railway only lasted until 1844 but the spanner was last used two days ago!