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[Bribie G]

Brewing trivia:

The "parachute" referred to by Mark is item "B" in this 200 year old diagram. Excess krausen is skimmed and runs down into the parachute to be collected or re-injected into the wort.



When the modern escape-from-a-plane device was invented they needed a name for it, and presumably one of the original inventors had a brewery in the family and said "hey this looks like an upside down parachute".

 

[Cervantes]

Every day's a school day on this forum......................

 

[RobW]

I think you'll find parachutes predate industrial brewing by several hundred years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute

 

[Cervantes]

Two years later, in 1785, Lenormand coined the word "parachute" by hybridizing the French prefix paracete, meaning to protect against, and chute, the French word for fall, to describe the device's function.

 

[Feldon]

 

[Bribie G]

Well, I didn't realise they were so old. On further research, Leonardo da Vinci got in first. Shortly after he invented the bicycle and the space shuttle.



greeks got in first with the laptop computer.

 

[RobW]

Well, I didn't realise they were so old. On further research, Leonardo da Vinci got in first. Shortly after he invented the bicycle and the space shuttle.

da-vinci-parachute.jpg

greeks got in first with the laptop computer.

laptop greece.jpg

It's a touch screen too

 

[Feldon]

That ancient Roman parachutist is pissing himself.

 

[gazzagahan]

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[Mattrox]

laptop greece.jpg

There was an American, English and Greek historian in a bar. The American boasts, we found in an archeological expedition of an opd west ghost town that there was a telegraph station that predates the official records by 20 years.

The Englishman pipes up. Well, in an exploration of old tunnels in the underground that a wired network existed before anywhere else in the world.

The Greek sat back, sipping on his Vergina. "Well, in an archeological dig of an ancient town, dating back to 1000 B.C., we found no wires. This proves the marvels of Ancient Greece. We already had WiFi technology back then.