Comments by "SeanBZA" (@SeanBZA) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

Banks used to store all returned cheques, along with copies of statements, as microfilm images, processed by some central facilities as they were processed. This film was then stored, undeveloped, for the required retention time, then recycled for the silver content. As the banks rarely had to retrieve any information off any roll, they left them in the canisters undeveloped, as the cost of developing them was pretty expensive, and thy relied on the fact that most of the time a query would come in while they still had a paper copy or the original around to use. If there was a need for one of the images they would then develop the film, and hope that the scan had been successful, or at least came out readable. IIRC less than 1% would ever need the processing and development, saving a lot of money on film processing, plus at the end of the retention process the film was more valuable as scrap silver, as it still had all the original active halide salt in it. Then the film would go and get stripped of emulsion, and the silver recovered from this residue.
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@abbofun9022 I buy eBooks from Baen, where you do get the ebook with no DRM, so that you can actually read it wherever and on whatever device you have, plus as a bonus no need to have a working connection to unlock it. The free library of theirs is also amazing, plus you get samplers of all the works as well. Only thing against eBooks is they are ephemeral, and you will not be able to find one that has been sitting in an attic for a century, sit down one afternoon and discover authors you never heard of before. Book viewing devices change, formats change, DRM servers get turned off, and your digital library vanished into less than nothing. Plus no libraries where you can lend a book and read it any more.
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Still got a half dozen pieces saved from my old job, where they were spare parts for the signs. Now on the wall as a decoration that I power up on occasion.
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The stuff you buy in Wallyworld is mostly clay and a little sawdust, but there are briquettes that are mostly charcoal powder and bonding agent, typically starch. However charcoal from hardwood is the best, almost as good as using the hardwood itself, which is going to take a half hour longer to get to coals. The most common charcoal here though is made from black wattle and other invasive and timber species, using the branches and trimmings that are left over from the paper and wood pole making, while the sawdust and chippings from the sawmills are often burnt to dry the wood, a lot is used for making particle board.
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Those lead antimony plates would be stored for a month or so, and then simply remelted back to make the next run of newspaper. However the current methods use a photographic process onto aluminium sheets, which are then simply placed in a bin until full, which them goes to be melted down again and recycled as well.
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@poppedweasel The British created the word Concentration Camp, Scorched Earth and considered every person to be a military member, and shot first. They were after the gold and the diamonds, nothing else. They also had incredibly stupid leadership, who would only use the manuals that they had been taught for generations worked, from a century or more before, and were absolutely unable to consider any change in tactics as an option. Nothing much changed between the Great War and the 2 World Wars until the leadership was totally replaced by new thinkers who, like the Canadians, had the luxury of difference, and the ability of the leadership at the Regiment not being as inflexible due to them having had to develop so far from the hidebound British structure. As well, the pronunciation of the names and places hurts, especially as there are enough sources available to get the pronunciation of every name and place correct.
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Possible, but not often used, as it was hard to make the image that small and still get high resolution. But making a roll of 8mm film and hiding it was very easy, especially when 8mm film was a common item.
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Still around these days as datadots used to track assets, like vehicles, basically microfilm with a serial number printed on it, applied by the thousands to the surface, and then covered by a layer of urethane sealer.
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@scythelord Carbon nanotubes are extremely easy to produce, just have any smoky fire with black smoke, and they are in there as a part of the smoke. Just not a strong tube, but plenty long enough to cause the same death as asbestos.
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@machintelligence Find a local library, who in general will love to get new books to add to the shelves. Especially true for small libraries, where the budget is being stretched a lot of ways, and books are in general bottom of the budget pile. I did do a few libraries that way, as I used to go into the bookstore every few weeks and buy a few dozen softcover pulps to read, and after reading them I would generally give to the library, as the entire SF collection they had was an empty shelf. I at least got that shelf full.
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I used to work with a man, who had a postal address of his full name, unnumbered house, unnumbered street, Amaoti. He got his mail delivered there, because the postman, along with everybody in the neighborhood, all knew him well. Of course now postal delivery is more hit and miss, because the postal service delivers, whatever they did not take.
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Yet strangely the US government does not learn from history, with exactly the same thing today, which has led to the rise of crime syndicates, exactly like Al Capone did in prohibition times. Forever doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
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nice flowers and also tasty as a salad additive, plus great for flavour in cooking.
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Actually helicopter blades do not use duck tape, you have a 3M made clear heavy urethane based tape, that is applied to the leading edge of the blades, to keep damage from rain and dust down. Available in a few widths, and sold as plain "Blade tape" to the helicopter users. You apply it to a clean blade, then leave to cure for an hour or three, then fly it. You can be back the next day applying it again, if you fly through a rain storm, which trashes the outer section, so it is normally applied in 1m sections, so that you only have to clean and replace the outside 2m or so of tape, generally around 5 times, before doing all of the tape. Leave it on for a long time, around a year, and it crazes and starts to flake off, and yellows. Takes care to apply correctly, so it does not have edges lift and peel it off. The cotton duck tape was mostly used for packaging, to seal up hermetic bags that had been opened, before the contents went back to the stores to be properly packed again in sealed plastic pouches, with a dessicant pack inside it to handle moisture, as it could be sitting on the shelf for decades before being used again.
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Funny enough the local wild banana here is actually purple, and has a lot of large seeds in it. There are a few growing in the park near me.
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@poppedweasel No, more from having grandparents who were on both sides, and friends who are similar in having known people who lost entire families in that war. Parents were in concentration camps both, one in Germany, and the other in Siberia.
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@loganholmberg2295 You can go to the sale now, on until 31 March 2021. Bought my first book of the year.
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Remember as well the British Tiger Moth and Gypsy moth, which served a similar role as pilot trainer for the British forces. My father learnt to fly on one, and also had his first air crash, in training, in one, having the engine fail during take off. He did joke that it was so slow, that one day he saw one land backwards in a strong wind.
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Here barbeque is a chip flavour.......
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Funny enough common here in cabinet making, mostly because you can easily fill the hole with filler and hide the screw, but still dig it out later if needed. Only problem is if you have a mix of screws, all the same dimension, but there are a few of the other type mixed in there. Last time I had that, was late on a weekend, needed to put those last 3 non Phillips screws in, and they were all Robertson. I used a hammer to put them in, like a nail, because they were not critical, and were going into chipboard anyway. Next time I went to the hardware got the set of Roberson drivers, because the remaining screws are all that.
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A well known issue withbatteries, the terminal voltage drops with temperature rise. Thus the simpler charge systems interpret this as being a flat battery, or one with a large load on it, and try to keep terminal voltage constant. This then charges the battery even more leading to heat being generated in the battery, and a loss of electrolyte from both chemical reactions and boiling off. Most modern aircraft will have both thermal control of the charge voltage, and as well a thermal switch on the battery that indicates a hot battery. Being such an old design this was likely not on the Tupelov, and instead they had the old fashioned starter generator on the engine, where it is quite capable of charging the battery at a very high current if needs be, equal to the starting current draw of the engine. One cell would have shorted out, either from flaked off material bridging out the bottom of the cell, or a separator failing. This then self discharged the cell, and the terminal voltage of this one cell dropped. Then the engine voltage regulator simply tried to keep battery voltage constant, overcharging the other cells, and the battery got hot enough that the cell separators melted, and shorted out the battery totally. Not an easy thing to recover from, as the generator can be disconnected in flight and the battery can temporarily can provide the full load, but the battery will discharge very fast. You cannot really disconnect the battery from the DC bus though, at least not in flight, there are isolating breakers and fuses inside the avionics bays, but you would need to open panels outside to get to them. They were very lucky though, old design, mostly mechanical linkages and hydraulics, and no electrical systems on the engines needed to run them once started, and the important EGT gauges are self powered by the engine exhaust heat. More modern engine no electrical power no engines, all is controlled by electric motors and valves.
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Funny enough I picked up a brass name plate from a motor, made by Bell Asbestos and Engineering (Africa), this week, company now known as Bestobell.
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Only in the USA is the roll sold in 8. Here by me in either 6 or 12, and the mystery meat is sold in a variety of ways. Either as a pack of 7, because 7 comes to a half kilogram, or for others as 12, 10 or 11, because that is a kilogram. Thin, thick or the South African favourite, boerewors, coarse ground meat, fat and spices in a thick casing. To be classed as boerewors you have to meet standards, otherwise it is just sold as sausage. 70% meat, and 20% fat at a minimum, and yes pretty much any animal can be used, though traditionally a lot of the meat is pork.
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@mark006868 No, not much difference, the scars are still present today. Just there are none still kept intact as examples, only a massive monument to this in Pretoria.
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