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| Author: | Bruce E. Babcock [ Wed Jan 15, 2014 7:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | An Implement for Shooting Missiles at Cows |
From the U. S. Patent Office: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=pate ... S20218.pdf Bruce E. Babcock |
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| Author: | weekendrailroader [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: An Implement for Shooting Missiles at Cows |
A bunch of research, some basic shop skills, and one could build a nice exhibit of "railway inventions that might have been...". |
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| Author: | Bob Hall [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: An Implement for Shooting Missiles at Cows |
Later developments of this concept were called the Claymore Mine..... |
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| Author: | dinwitty [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 2:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: An Implement for Shooting Missiles at Cows |
I guess the cowcatcher replaced it... Hiawatha shovelnose steamers at speed would send cows flying over the telephone wires... |
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| Author: | Alan Walker [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 5:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: An Implement for Shooting Missiles at Cows |
Those evil, vile creatures-first they wreck our trains. Now we know that they also pollute our atmosphere. All the more reason to enjoy that steak or hamburger. As for the steam gun, I imagine that that would have been the bane of the fireman of any locomotive so equipped. |
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| Author: | G. W. Laepple [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 10:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: An Implement for Shooting Missiles at Cows |
Boy, I'd love to have one of these on the front of my car to wake up the nitwit driver ahead of me who's busy texting when the light turns green. |
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| Author: | patentable [ Fri Jan 17, 2014 5:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Steam bullet train |
Not something to get cows off the tracks... but.. here's an early version of a steam bullet train from 1865. https://www.google.com/patents/US49227 The patent literature from the early/mid 19th century is replete with all kinds of devices that were never built or implemented. An exhibit on early patents related to the railroad industry might be of interest - maybe even comical - to visitors. The inventor of this patent, Mr. Samuel Calthrop, might have been years ahead of his time in designing verhicles to avoid wind resistance. Bob US49227 A Publication date Aug 8, 1865 Inventors Samuel B. Calthrop |
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| Author: | Alan Walker [ Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: An Implement for Shooting Missiles at Cows |
G. W. Laepple wrote: Boy, I'd love to have one of these on the front of my car to wake up the nitwit driver ahead of me who's busy texting when the light turns green. One could retrofit an air gun that fires ping pong balls and use it to ping them to get their attention-not that I actually suggest that someone do that. I'd rather someone develop a device to fry that guy's/or gal's circuit board. Slightly off topic, there was discussion at one time of equipping emergency services vehicles with radio equipment to disrupt AM/FM radio transmissions and replace it with a siren tone (I think) when an emergency vehicle was running lights and siren. The intention was to increase driver awareness and counter the soundproofing of vehicles. FCC killed that idea. |
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