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Date: | Sat, 19 Oct 2002 08:35:50 -0400 |
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In Skagway, Alaska I was told the drums are very important and shown the
system hooked up in the house there, on the piano in the house was composed
the State Anthem. That summer the Russian cruise ship Odessa brought their
nightclub act into town for free one lunch hour. Anyway, two 55 gallon drum
are "stacked" atop the other, and connected to the flue of the fireplace, or
a chimney arises I imagine. The wood is burned in the bottom drum and the
heat collected in the top drum, radiating into the room instead of the
stupid practice of sending all the heat up the chimney. The leader of the
British occupation of Long Island, New York, Benjamin Thompson had a similar
complaint, and later designed what was known as the Rumford fireplace under
his new scientific name "Count Rumford". He once ran a Fort Golgotha in
Huntington, NY, atop the highest hill in the cemetery, where Nathan Hale was
held before being taken to New York City to be hung. The statue dedicated to
him is in front of NYC's City Hall now, his burial location unknown. He
regretted that he had only one life to "lose" for his country not "give" as
many people think.
George Myers
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