I was watching Alan Titmash's programme about geology this evening and he mentioned in passing that aqueducts were waterproofed with Welsh flannel and boiled sugar.
I know there are various long ditch people around here, so I thought I'd ask.
Welsh flannel and boiled sugar? Really??
Regards,
J. Kim Siddorn,
They once used sugar of lead (lead Acetate) boiled to waterproof cloth, another mangling of knowledge?
Tom
I think I've heard ox blood mentioned in this sort of context. He was referring (I assume) to sealing the joints between the iron plates, so in effect a gasket material.
Cheers Tim
Got to be something like this. If they relied on virgins blood around those parts it would be a very small canal.
-- Regards,
John Stevenson Nottingham, England.
Tim Leech
"John Stevenson" wrote>
Should I take it that said substance is fairly commonplace in your neck of the woods then, John?
Regards, Arthur G
The most likely explanation is that most of the men in his neck of the woods bat for the other side.
"Tom" wrote (snip):-
That sounds plausible, perhaps we should file it along with the square Bentall pistons!
Any more examples of 'Chinese whispers' modified facts anyone?
woods then, John?
It was when I was growing up, I think the local lassies held UK patent rights
-- Regards,
John Stevenson Nottingham, England.
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