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@MayflyAlt-98 you might like this given that it features Pykrete, a similar composite material to Hemacite.
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Disposing of very large quantities of blood is an onerous chore. You can't give the stuff away—well, perhaps you can, but few are willing to endure the stares that proving this point entails.
Yet the slaughtering and butchering trade has long faced precisely this dilemma. London butchers in Newport Market during the 19th century were banned from tipping blood into the street sewers, due to the rats it attracted, though enough of them flouted this law that sewers under meat markets became commonly known as "blood sewers." Among London sewer workers, toiling in these "blood lines" vied in unpleasantness with the caustic rivers that ran under soapmakers and the boiling drains beneath sugar refineries. Indeed, one of the better ways for meat merchants to dispose of cattle blood was by selling it to these sugar mills, which used it in their refining process.1
Recycling was already the order of the day: bones were ground up for phosphorus matches, tobacco ash was turned into tooth-cleanser, old wool sweaters shredded into wallpaper flocking, and it was discovered that desiccated fish eyes made delightful buds for artificial flowers. Unlucky stray dogs wound up as phony cod-liver oil, and tallow makers in Paris were not above fishing dead dogs and cats out of the Seine when production quotas demanded it. But blood and animal waste remained a perennial problem. New Yorkers found one promising use for it in the 1870s: they tried mixing blood with other discarded offal to manure their fields.2
But perhaps the most creative approach to blood disposal is one we might all still readily grasp, as this headline from the January 1892 issue of Manufacturer and Builder magazine attests:
Door Knobs, etc., from Blood and Sawdust.
Doctor W.H. Dibble, of New Jersey, had patented an exciting material for interior decorators: hemacite, he called it. Hemacite, the magazine explained, was "nothing less than the blood of slaughtered cattle and sawdust, combined with chemical compounds, under hydraulic pressure of forty thousand pounds to the square inch."
Advertisement hawking hemacite skate wheels in the 11 October 1885 edition of the
Advertisement hawking hemacite skate wheels in the 11 October 1885 edition of the New York Times.
Sawdust back then had already found use in papermaking and as a filling for dolls, and desperate Swedes had also figured out how to distill brandy from it. But these base ingredients of blood and sawdust remained plentiful, and were wonderfully effective when combined together as an animal polymer, the blood's albumen binding with the wood particulate. "Hemacite," noted the magazine, "is susceptible of a high polish, is impervious to heat, moisture, atmospherical changes, and, in fact, is practically indestructible." Starting out as brownish powder resembling snuff, hemacite could be molded into any shape and dyed to any color, and it became a popular and reasonably priced substitute for both wood and metal among architect and decorators.
In fact, by the time of the Manufacturer and Builder article, the Trenton headquarters of the Dibble Manufacturing Company had been for some years producing hemacite house trimmings and drawer pulls, and it now had a catalogue of hundreds of designs of their most popular product, hemacite doorknobs. The doorknobs carried a guarantee for the lifetime of the door, because rather than having a separate knob and shaft to wear out, they were molded as one unbreakable piece. It was a successful enough product that Dibble eliminated his own name from the enterprise entirely: Trenton became the proud home of the Hemacite Manufacturing Company.
Dibble branched out into products like hemacite cash register buttons and, quick to pick up on the latest fads, roller skates.3 "To skate manufacturers and dealers," boasted an ad in the 11 October 1885 issue of the New York Times, "the superiority of our Hemacite Roller over boxwood is now well known." The campaign seems to have worked: the 21 February 1903 Times carries an ad by the Siegel Cooper department store, hawking athletic supplies, and nestled among promotions for medicine balls and $12 Swedish Dogskin Coats ("For sporting use or driving") is an entry for 75-cent roller skates with hemacite wheels, a more expensive option than skates with plain "black wheels." Curiously, Siegel Cooper's ad appears over a plug for Plasmon Cocoa mix—"A blood-invigorating and muscle-making beverage of the highest order." Plasmon's active invigorating ingredient? Albumen, which was also the organic binding agent behind hemacite roller skate wheels.
W.H. Dibble was certainly an inventive fellow, having previously patented a dentist's contraption to simultaneously pry patients' mouths open while draining away their saliva, but his hemacite products were not quite the amazing innovation that he led others to believe.4 Like a true American, what he had really done was nick a foreign idea and improve upon it. Long before Dibble's 1877 application, the Parisian writer Francois Lepage secured an 1855 patent for what he called bois durci: a pressurized mixture of sawdust and cattle blood or, less economically, egg whites. Lepage founded the Bois Durci Company and exhibited its wares at the Great International Exhibition of 1862, back when Dibble was still tinkering with ways to suck the spit out of dental patients. Bois durci went on to turn up in a variety of 19th century inkstands, plaques, picture frames, and furniture; Edison even used it for the housing on early telephones.5 Even bois durci was not the first use of blood in buildings. Cattle blood had long been used in "blood cements," as, for that matter, had albumen from eggs, milk, and cheese. One Chinese recipe called for 100 parts slaked lime, 75 parts bullocks' blood, and 2 parts alum. Floors in South Africa gained a black marble-like polish with the use of blood, and an early London tennis court acquired its hard and glossy surface in the same way; it has even been used as an additive in roofing material.6 It seems there is no part of a house that cannot be manufactured, in part, from blood. Hemacite certainly captured the attention of Victorian architects. By the turn of the century, though, Dibble's firm had already suffered a factory fire, moved shop to a new building, and changed its name to Trenton Brass and Machine Company. The old Hemacite Company was as much a victim of changing times as fire: new plastics like Bakelite were in the offing, pushing aside the quaint notion of sawdust mixed with blood. The rechristened company soldiered on for many more decades, surviving the Depression and a postwar strike, and until recently still supplied fittings to plumbing contractors. But even Trenton Brass is gone now, and with it the last faint trace of Dr. W.H. Dibble and his Hemacite Company.7 But old hemacite house fixtures, strong and durable as they are, live on. So the next time you find yourself running short on bouillon, you may take this token of advice: consider boiling your doorknobs.
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- HailVictory1776 : My legacy! Blue lives matter
- DEV0T10 : ^@hailvictory1776 is a furry confirmed
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!neolibs new The Economist article
Finland will rejoice at the results: it comes top of the rankings in all three fields. People in the Netherlands, Norway and Japan, who performed better than average across the disciplines, will also be pleased. England has risen up the league table in the ten years since the tests were last run, owing to better performances among young adults. By contrast, America's results are heading south. Similarly, Chile, Italy, Poland and Portugal all boast a high share of people who score below the norm. Almost half of Chileans score badly enough to place in the bottom two categories in both maths and reading, compared with just 8% of Japanese people.
Chile 
is the kid who gets a D on a class where everyone has an F lmao, the absolute state of Latin America !latinx
Increased migration offers some explanation. Adults who are not native speakers of their local language tend to do worse in tests that involve juggling words
Schleicher, head of education and skills at the oecd, speculates that many adults are now getting much less practice than they used to reading long and complex texts. Blame TikTok.
BAN TIKTOK
(JEE, Gaokao, CSAT)
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There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military victory: because, if you please, they are rattlesnakes, and don't know the difference between good and evil! (What of the writer?) The Germans have just as much right to declare the Poles and Jews exterminable vermin, subhuman, as we have to select the Germans: in other words, no right, whatever they have done.
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!spacechads !ifrickinglovescience Unironically unexpected Trump appointment.
For those who don't know Isaacman is a Billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut who served as commander of Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn (both private orbital missions on board of the SpaceX Dragon capsule, Isaacman himself financed those missions).
Interesting times ahead for NASA and the American Space Program considering him and let's be honest, Musk, will be in charge of it.
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Elon Musk still has at least 30 years of activity ahead of him.
He is also a futurist nerd who wants to keep expanding on his ideas till the day he is down for the count. We can already see this trend based on the fact that he is planning to open up a video game company now.
Based on these two data points, here are the predictions for where Elon Musk will go next:
1) Cyberware : Kind of obvious. He already has neuralink and technological implants and mechanical arms or legs are a low level sci fi technology. Includes brain enhancements decades down the line.
2) Regenerative biotech : Another obvious given that he is aging and vat grown organs and body parts are another common sci fi concept. Includes brain enhancements decades down the line.
3) Tesla game console : Kind of like Samsung TV acquiring rights to play certain games on their devices. Tesla game console will be like an emulator console that allows you to play a preset number of games numbering in the dozens to hundreds that you can play on the device. Along with some Tesla exclusive games.
4) Farming. This one may feel like the odd one out to the average person, but it makes sense, as agriculture fits within the Elon paradigm of vertically integrating an entire industry supply chain to make cheaper product better. He would frame it as another route in the fight against climate change. Another goal would be to work on developing strains of food that are resilient enough to thrive in the harsher environmental regions of Earth.
5) Tesla shipping. Another odd one out but it makes sense when you factor in that it gives Elon further control over his company's supply chain. Tesla ships transporting Tesla products to Tesla factories and tesla employees.
6) Tesla drones. A natural extension of Tesla robotics and Xai. Smart drones that can work autonomously to deliver goods where necessary within a city sized area.
7) Tesla VTOL. State wide transportation for the elite in the air driven by autonomous Vertical take off vehicles.
8) A housing company. A house construction company with the goal of building high quality homes for the American middle class at an affordable price. A natural precursor to private company owned bases on other planetary bodies.
9) Space mining division. A part of SpaceX that deals with space mining for resources used in the technologies built by Elon Musk's companies.
10) Semiconductor/ Chip manufacturing company. Another monumental industrial challenge. To break into one of the cutting edge technology fields and make a profit. Most likely to fail. Most likely to make a massive profit if it succeeds. The kind of gamble Elon likes.
Elon Musk appears to come up with one new concept/ company/ technology that he invests in about once every 3 years on average. Based on this information it is a given that he will have 10 more things he will have developed by the time he dies.
What do you guys think Elon Musk's next companies will be in the near future and beyond?
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Tu died in October 2003, and in December 2004 the then 82-year-old Yang caused a stir by marrying the then 28-year-old Weng Fan (Chinese: 翁帆; pinyin: Wēng Fān), calling Weng the "final blessing from God".[10] Yang formally renounced his U.S. citizenship in late 2015.[11]
he was educated on a Boxer Indemnity Scholarship, that's how fricking old he is.
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