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Who was telling your great-grandparents the right time?
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Who was telling your great-grandparents the right time?A warm hello from overseas to you, my friends.I read a very interesting article today, dealing with the topic of "getting the right time in the…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by C. F. 'Charley' Eckhardt Apr 3.
tar and feather - how was it done accurate?
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Hello,at least since I read Tom sawyer as a child, I really was fascinated by tar and feather as punishment. But I always had one problem with that tar&feather-thing: no one could survive, if…Continue
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was such pattern used for shirts in the old west?
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Hello, I would like to ask you, if the paisley pattern shown in the image would be one, that could have been used in the old west?I cannot decide if the shirt could be worn for living history aims or…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by anthony martin Aug 5, 2012.
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C. F. 'Charley' Eckhardt replied to Doc Holger's discussion Who was telling your great-grandparents the right time?
anthony martin replied to Doc Holger's discussion Who was telling your great-grandparents the right time?
" UH-OH!I own about 40 antique clocks and about 60 pocket watches.Better give away all of them except one!"
ChipProf replied to Doc Holger's discussion Who was telling your great-grandparents the right time?
""The man who owns a watch always knows the right time. The man who owns two watches, never does."
--old Vaquero saying"
Doc Holger replied to Doc Holger's discussion Who was telling your great-grandparents the right time?
"Thank you all for your answers. What Ruth Belville was for London, that obviously were the conductors of the railroads for the old west. To measure the time in seconds was surely a strange imagination for all that farmers and stuff.
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anthony martin replied to Doc Holger's discussion Who was telling your great-grandparents the right time?
" Doc,
The business of telling time was rather haphazard and often quite regional.That often caused quite a few problems in the early days,particularly with the spread of an arterial railroad system.Railroads did much to…"
Stan H replied to Doc Holger's discussion Who was telling your great-grandparents the right time?
"I just don't think telling the exact time was all that important in the early days.
If you had a farm or a ranch, when the sun came up was time to go to work and when it went down it was time to quit work.
In a town, many banks had a…"
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Who was telling your great-grandparents the right time?
Who was telling your great-grandparents the right time?A warm hello from overseas to you, my friends.I read a very interesting article today, dealing with the topic of "getting the right time in the late 19th century". Did you know, that it was a business to sell the right time as door-to-door sale? I never have thought about this and never wondered about the question, how my ancestors have got the right time for their every day business.Yes, until the process of industrialization has begun,…See More
Glen Carman replied to Doc Holger's discussion tar and feather - how was it done accurate?
"I-80 does the same thing.
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C. F. 'Charley' Eckhardt replied to Doc Holger's discussion tar and feather - how was it done accurate?
"Texas A&M, down in College Station, has a saying for those who don't like the way it's done in Aggieland--"Highway 6 runs both ways.""
Glen Carman replied to Doc Holger's discussion tar and feather - how was it done accurate?
"What was that line in that dumb Bill Murray movive, "our ancestors were kicked out of every decent country in this world."
I'm the guy who when someone moves into my area and say, "that isn't the way we do it where…"
Doc Holger replied to Doc Holger's discussion tar and feather - how was it done accurate?
"Words of wisdom, my friend, words of wisdom.
If anyone is ever in any doubt - he should walk the way his ancestors already walked."
Glen Carman replied to Doc Holger's discussion tar and feather - how was it done accurate?
"Let the rest of the world have it, we're here because our ancestors for the most part wouldn't toe the line, we should keep it that way."
Doc Holger replied to Doc Holger's discussion tar and feather - how was it done accurate?
"Yes. Right you are. Concerning figuring out sizes, I really wish, the UNO would constrain the metric system all over the world. "The metric system is for all people for all time." (Condorcet 1791). But to tell the truth: it is much easier…"
Glen Carman replied to Doc Holger's discussion tar and feather - how was it done accurate?
"Not just chemistry, ever wondered how hat sizes are figured, you know 7 1/4, 6 7/8 and such? Circumferance of the head or hat opening divided by Pi and rounded to the nearest 1/8th. "
Doc Holger replied to Doc Holger's discussion tar and feather - how was it done accurate?
"Thank you for your answer!
That's what I call a perfect example for the fact, that children should better pay their full attention in class, because they never know when they really will need some basics in chemistry in their life ;-)"
Glen Carman replied to Doc Holger's discussion tar and feather - how was it done accurate?
"Isn't there anyone here that understands basic chemistry? The question is easy to solve, you dissolve it in a solvent, the most common way tar was applied back then. Turpentine will dissolve pine tar and kerosene works for asphalt.…"
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