Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!border-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:06:27 +0000 From: joegwinn@comcast.net Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: another good book Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:06:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <18a1c256049eae19$1104$2048432$4206dc53@news.newsgroupdirect.com> <69d8739a$0$19$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <1efhtkd15uqubu39qb779fui0bn56au4so@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 260410-4, 4/10/2026), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Lines: 63 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-5zRW+p615sxFpKxPYItKwLvjH7erc2RA5/c4N9qEMCfHkYaJKYJhl6VnalGJ3IuLJAXn9w90/K0s4gu!qm3QAIyMaNEci1YopHoeal3fjW6tqNlMbEAjsBAsfSHaxvNNEpol4oJ+KSY2JB5bTw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.design:742883 On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:27:15 -0700, john larkin wrote: >On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 23:50:50 -0400, bitrex wrote: > >>On 3/31/2026 2:05 PM, john larkin wrote: >>> On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:44:21 -0700, Jeff Liebermann >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:30:02 +0000, someone >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Another disaster caused by a transport ship looking to expedite unloading. They heated the molasses to make it flow faster into the tank. >>>>> >>>>> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/ >>>> >>>> "They" didn't heat the molasses. It was unseasonably hot which caused >>>> the molasses to expand. There were other causes: >>>> >>>> "...air temperature rose from 2 to 41 °F (-17 to 5.0 °C)" >>>> >>>> >>>> "Structural defects in the tank combined with unseasonably warm >>>> temperatures contributed to the disaster". >>> >>> The tank was built cheap and fast and never reviewed for design. And >>> located in a very bad place. >>> >>> >>> John Larkin >>> Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center >>> Lunatic Fringe Electronics >> >>All of the waterfront of the North End, Charleston/Everett, and East >>Cambridge were heavily industrialized in the early 1900s. Raw goods (and >>molassess apparently) in the NE, petroleum products in >>Charleston/Everett, and coal gasification in East Cambridge were major >>industries. >> >>Nowadays the historically Italian North End is mostly high-end >>residential/tourist trap area, with a shrinking number of Italian >>restaurants that tend to serve rather average Italian food, compared to >>my childhood recollections. >> >>Only main legacy of the industrial history is the large LNG tanker >>terminal in Everett, longest-operating liquefied natural gas import >>facility in the U.S. Remarkably there is only one industry still served >>by freight rail inside the Boston city limits, an ABEX logistics warehouse. > > >There are some good books about rum, like > > > >and the role that Boston played in the Triangle Trade. > >Try a tablespoon of good rum on a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. Or >Bananas Foster. Hmm. I already have the rum and the vanilla bean ice cream. Hmmmmmmmm. Joe