Memories ! I was taught to use one at school. I have a 'modern' plastic one, a Thornton original that was handed down, and a pocket 6 incher. I used to have a circular one too. Used them into the 80's until electronic calculators stopped needing a mortgage to buy one.Dad's slide rule that calculates.
Pete, we have one of those food processors! Just keeps on working! Weighs a ton.just found a old food processor an 2 bars of soap in the shed no longer made![]()
We see what you did thereI have an old cooker. 72 years old and called Steve!
We had two skips when we left UK. Neighbour took away about half of one. I reckon he had a bushy tail tucked in his trousers.it sure does Richardi think its about time i got a skip and had a clear out
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Very very good!I was once told this joke by a vicar in Ireland. "Why does the bride always wear white? Answer, "because all domestic appliances are white". It is, of course, not an explanation that I personally hold
Pete, I am assuming a skip is like a garage or junk sale?it sure does Richardi think its about time i got a skip and had a clear out
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Ah, thank you! We would call that a dumpster, comes in 20 or 40 feet. It seems like we need one 9or 2) of those every time we move, of maybe every 5 or 6 years!Not quite. You hire a large metal container (delivered to outside your house) into which you dump all your rubbish and then the firm you hired it from come and take it away.
Providing your neighbours and people from the other side of town have left you room.Not quite. You hire a large metal container (delivered to outside your house) into which you dump all your rubbish and then the firm you hired it from come and take it away.
thanksNot quite. You hire a large metal container (delivered to outside your house) into which you dump all your rubbish and then the firm you hired it from come and take it away.
i dont belive it!Providing your neighbours and people from the other side of town have left you room.
Bob
We have had stuff put in and taken out! A few few years ago I went late on a very cold night looking for our cat, only to find two people looking with flashlights climbing on the dumpster, they almost fell in when I turned the garage flood lights on! I just turned them off and let them take what they wanted. The cat came in!prob here they put there stuff in as well during the night.
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We have a friend here with one of those, she loves it. Took me out in it once. Note once. I tease her about it, but wouldn't go as far as to show her the photo.prob here they put there stuff in as well during the night.
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A proper analogue volume control on an old radiogram has a logarithmic response volume to rotation, granted you don't need tables to use it, but the designer probably did to design it.Talking of old tools, although not domestic, are log tables used any more, logarithms, not picnic.
Bob
A book of log tables would be hard to find new these days except at specialist outlets, as would be students who could read them. Such a book was part of my rucksack at school. A slide rule is effectively a mechanical log table, and has gone the same way. Log tables are fundamental to a huge range of calculations, sound intensity being one example. As you say Janice, they have been hidden behind calculators and computers, and something has been lost in the learning process.Not sure - they went from GCSE maths a long time ago - when calculators became the norm.
Think still in use at A level but there is a log button on most calculators so no idea if the books are used. I liked those to show pupils the gradual change. You can't see that on a calculator.![]()
My goodness, I had forgotten about them and how tattered they got!Talking of old tools, although not domestic, are log tables used any more, logarithms, not picnic.
Bob
When we moved I found my slide rule in it’s nice leather case with a clip for my belt. I purchased in 5he mid 60’s a K&E Deci Lon which was about $35 USD which was about 1 1/2 days pay at the time!A proper analogue volume control on an old radiogram has a logarithmic response volume to rotation, granted you don't need tables to use it, but the designer probably did to design it.
A book of log tables would be hard to find new these days except at specialist outlets, as would be students who could read them. Such a book was part of my rucksack at school. A slide rule is effectively a mechanical log table, and has gone the same way. Log tables are fundamental to a huge range of calculations, sound intensity being one example. As you say Janice, they have been hidden behind calculators and computers, and something has been lost in the learning process.
Andrew.
Somewhere upstairs I still have my book from when I was at school with my maiden name on the cover.My goodness, I had forgotten about them and how tattered they got!
I have one I use for my Agfa purchased in 1961 for £5. 10Keeping it domestic, if you have an old photographic light meter, Weston or similar, look at the scale. Logarithmic.
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Andrew.