Lock them up! But back to our story.īefore we get there, please note that the Québec French word for meat pie, tourtière, is not derived from the (Québec?) French name of the passenger pigeon, which is tourte voyageuse. Climate change is not real and, if it is, the trees are to blame anyway, and dark forces, like “scientists,” tree huggers, vegans, etc., are conspiring to destabilise the divinely ordained economy of the Western world. Mind you, the climate of the Earth would not be spiralling out of control either. Dodos would still go down century old pathways on the island of Mauritius, passenger / wild pigeons would still blacken the skies of North America and countless species would not be on the verge of extinction. If it was not for Homo sapiens, the Earth would be a paradise, you know. I know, I know, we want to talk (read?) about cool stuff, or hot stuff giving the presence of uranium, but people always get in the way.
One could argue that the story of the item at the heart of this week’s issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee, the Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab, began in February 1884 with the birth, in the United States, of Alfred Carlton Gilbert. Now please give me a moment to catch my breath. Keller und Company, a publishing house and maker of educational toys known today, in 2020, as Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung und Company Kommanditgesellschaft. You will remember that, in January 2019, you and I learned all there was / is to know about the Kosmos Spielcomputer Logikus, a West German electro-mechanical calculator, and not a computer at all, put on the market by Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung W. What is it, my reading friend? You did not join our band of merry humans this week to hear (read?) about engines? Toys, you say? Indeed, you are right.Įducational toys designed to spark the interest of young Homo sapiens, primarily boys as we all know, and long live patriarchy, in all sorts of technological and scientific things and ideas, go way, way back. It went out of production (well?) before the end of the Second World War, and… Busy as it was with other, more powerful engines, Bristol Aeroplane did not fully develop the Taurus.
This British radial air cooled aircraft engine was compact, light and quite powerful but may originally not have been as reliable as one would have liked.
The Bristol Taurus, incidentally, was developed in the mid-1930s by Bristol Aeroplane Company Limited. And yes, I am a Taurus, which explains a lot, not that yours truly believes in astrology. Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday, yadda yadda yadda.
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