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- From: dewi@bnr.ca (Dewi Williams)
- Subject: Re: Torpedos (was: Incident on Boston (MBTA) Commuter Rail)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.161122.5368@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
- Originator: dewi@bcrks78
- Sender: 5E00 Corkstown News Server
- Reply-To: dewi@bnr.ca (Dewi Williams)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ltd
- References: <RMURA.92Dec17145416@world.std.com> <EMERY.92Dec17170944@dr_no.mitre.org> <tgttgv.725013815@tb3.chem.tue.nl> <38120@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:11:22 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <38120@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
- > In article <tgttgv.725013815@tb3.chem.tue.nl> tgttgv@chem.tue.nl writes:
- > > emery@dr_no.mitre.org (David Emery) writes:
- > >
- > > >Could the loud "pop" be a torpedo?
- > > > dave
- > >
- > >
- > > Could someone please expain to me what a 'torpedo' is ?
- > >
- (para deleted)
- >
- > The name "torpedo" probably dates back to the civil war era terminology
- > confusion between naval mines and torpedos.
- >
- > --
- > George Robbins - now working for, work: to be avoided at all costs...
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- I think they were (are) called "detonators" in British terminology.
- Somebody took out a patent at one time for a detonator-saver.
- The idea was that the detonators were deployed in pairs, so that even if
- one failed, the other would be heard: the "saver" was supposed to use the
- explosion of the first detonator to push the second one out of the path of
- the wheels, thus reducing the number of detonators actually used.
-
- ... Dewi
-