Adam Weiss wrote:
Charlie Self wrote:
Adam Weiss wrote:


2: The dutch have designed well for slow rising water. They've built
houses that float. Not house boats, mind you. These homes have
floating concrete foundations that will rise and fall with rising water
levels. (I knew that thesis I heard of where a stoner physics student
designd and floated a concrete boat and got credit for it would have
some use somewhere, but I digress).



The English were using concrete boats in 1910 or so, and a Frenchman
patented a wire reinforced concrete boat in 1847. It wasn't exactly a
stoner physic student's brainstorm.


I didn't know that.

But here it is, all online and easily accessed for those too lazy to do
real research in a library:

http://www.concreteships.org/history/


Very interesting and thanks.

You're welcome. One of the benefits of reading Popular Mechanics as a
kid 50 years ago.