22 Aug
2006
22 Aug
'06
10:55 a.m.
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 01:26 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Another "simplicity itself" appliance still
in production is the sickroom
vaporizer. Nothng more than two electrodes contained in a plastic or
bakelite housing immersed in a tank of water and connected directly to the
AC line. Enough heat builds up by the slight conductivity of tap water to
boil it.
Yeah, we have one of those someplace. Dunno where the heck we're gonna get
another set of electrodes for it, though, the ones in there are all
corroded to heck... :-)
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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