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    "The Big Bang: A History of Explosives" by G I Brown.

    Just finished: "The Cogwheel Brain" by Doron Swade, all about Babbage & Linda, sorry, Ada Lovelace, and the Differential & Analytical Engines.

    Also leafing through "The World's Worst Weapons: from exploding guns to malfunctioning missiles" by Martin J Dougherty. (Contains amongst others, the Atomic Howitzer, the German rifle that shoots around corners, and the Davy Crocket nuclear bazooka, not forgetting Project Pluto, the supersonic nuclear ramjet).

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    Buggy SKA code.

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      #3
      'The Life of Reilly' by Paul Burke - hilarious fiction about a female journalist who accidenalty' becomes a NL MP - very funny and very original.

      ISBN 0340734477

      Same author of 'The Man who fell in love with his wife.'

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        Originally posted by zeitghost
        "The Big Bang: A History of Explosives" by G I Brown.

        Just finished: "The Cogwheel Brain" by Doron Swade, all about Babbage & Linda, sorry, Ada Lovelace, and the Differential & Analytical Engines.

        Also leafing through "The World's Worst Weapons: from exploding guns to malfunctioning missiles" by Martin J Dougherty. (Contains amongst others, the Atomic Howitzer, the German rifle that shoots around corners, and the Davy Crocket nuclear bazooka, not forgetting Project Pluto, the supersonic nuclear ramjet).

        I used to work on half ton mechanical computers about 30 years ago. They were used to predict aircraft positions for 40 mm antiaircraft guns

        full of oil and cogs they were, but they worked





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        (>'.'<)
        ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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          #5
          Originally posted by zeitghost
          "The Big Bang: A History of Explosives" by G I Brown.

          Just finished: "The Cogwheel Brain" by Doron Swade, all about Babbage & Linda, sorry, Ada Lovelace, and the Differential & Analytical Engines.

          Also leafing through "The World's Worst Weapons: from exploding guns to malfunctioning missiles" by Martin J Dougherty. (Contains amongst others, the Atomic Howitzer, the German rifle that shoots around corners, and the Davy Crocket nuclear bazooka, not forgetting Project Pluto, the supersonic nuclear ramjet).
          "Iz youz a terrororist?"

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            #6
            Originally posted by EternalOptimist
            I used to work on half ton mechanical computers about 30 years ago. They were used to predict aircraft positions for 40 mm antiaircraft guns

            full of oil and cogs they were, but they worked





            IIRC they had three ratings for each machine, two small/short ones and a tall/long armed one. The two short guys were maintenance and the tall long armed guy was the operator.
            Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
            threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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              I've just finished Rogue Moon again, following the thread on here a few weeks ago.

              It wasn't quite how I remembered it from when I read it as a kid, but close enough. I think there is also an important flaw in the plot.

              Otherwise, I've been reading literature on new bathroom suites.

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