On 27/07/2011 12:21, John Williamson wrote:
Andy Breen wrote:
I'm getting more and more sure there's some subtlety in the way these
early machines were operated that I'm missing - some lost art of
working those
boilers...

'Twas ever so. New tchnology comes along, and the old ways get lost.

How many people can properly set the mixture on a gas lamp nowadays just
by looking and listening?


Anyone used to a bunsen burner perhaps.

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