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(Steel! Only ever bettered by sliced bread)?
I’ve not been in this computer lark for very long? My missus would be lost in it for hours! But I now realise the problem Trevithic or Stephenson would have in pressurising steam! After leaving the railway I joined a water company to learn water supply! They sent me off to college in York n Derby to perfect my impregnated rope n poured white mettle fixings and the new Ductile choice that was far lighter than Caste, that you would treat like eggs? It would crack, And Asbestos large bore would deform under weight? Meaning reaming in a deep pit of water and mud! This was as late as 1968 when the Chinese and India had played with the Carbon content of iron to have better mettle weapons! So Trevithic improves his boiler without it blowing up? And I have DUCTILE that’s in 6m lengths and still stronger and lighter than pipes of Victorian days! I’m now given a new Whitlock Super excavator and my own gang of blokes and off I go like I,K, Brunel once did over fields and highways and ditches etc, laying new pipe afar! And all new jointing methods for a final water pressure test for a long worrying period knowing it wont Blow up? Just as Stephenson would hope for? But he didn’t have sliced bread!
