I finished laughing at the BBC Reporting Scotland and flipped on to BBC2 where the Victorian Christmas show is demonstrating how the Victorians made bricks.
Thee may be some people here who are interested. It should be on the iPlayer soon.
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Bricks n BBC 2.
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Posted 12 years ago #
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Hmm. Brick-cooked tatties!
Posted 12 years ago # -
I think the MOD in London used to be heated by cannonballs. They were warmed in a furnace and then put in the fireplaces round the building. Early underground trains used hot bricks too.
Number 4 son was watching the show too right up until they used of blood to make the floor.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I watched until they explained that they had managed previously to lose a hay harvest and get the cart horse lame. And that was a one ton coup cairt if anyone is interested in regionalising the content.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Ach, he's not actually riding it.
Posted 12 years ago # -
John Fowler tried to build an early underground steam locomotive that used firebricks as the heat store for the boiler for tunnel running when the fires had to be doused. It was a complete disaster, water has a far higher specific heat than firebrick (indeed, THE highest), so he might as well have just left the bricks out of the design as they effectively insulated the boiler during open running and then scavenged heat from it when tunnel running.
So the MOD would have been better using hot water bottles than cannonballs.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Yes, steam contains a huge amount of energy - witness the awful mess that even a small boiler explosion can make. It's because of the pressure/temperature combination that boilers need strong heat sources. But for domestic heating I think a cannonball would be okay. It would provide radiant and convective heating. Bricks also work for heating - they are found in storage heaters.
Posted 12 years ago # -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01g7tkp/brick-by-brick-rebuilding-our-past-episode-2
Back on Iplayer. Lots about bricks. And fish and chips. And beamish.
Posted 9 years ago #
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