On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:25:47 -0500, Ed Finnell wrote:
>Oh Ned. The 'Energy Dept' Showed up mid sixties to reclaim some motor
>generators on loan to the Physics Dept. in WWII. They were long since out of
>use and stored in the attic. After much work by some hefty guys, they were
>finally loaded on the Flatbed. The supervisor said on the way out, the reason
>we wanted them back was we ran out of copper for the windings and had to
>use silver! 1200 lbs 99.9% pure each.
>
A variant:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19700801&id=iqVPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iCQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4418,100523&hl=en
>In a message dated 1/25/2016 3:10:46 P.M. Central Standard Time,
>[email protected] writes:
>
>A millisecond would be 1M feet or 186 miles. Even very thin
>transformer wire would be pretty heavy.
-- gil
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