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Benni, the museum isn't far from you

A little over an hour, I'd guess, across Route 9 to Henniker, then 2 towns north on 114.

They use the ice on the weekend before labor day, what a fun time that is. I like the steam engines, they even set up a steam shingle mill and make shingles.

Check the schedule....

http://www.musterfieldfarm.com

Noel

Originally posted by The Penguin
I think that would be Sears Roebuck and co (i think) eh?

Yes. The point is not to let history repeat itself in our own situation. Because Home Depot or Ebay is selling stuff direct to our customers we just have to be aware that things are changing and we have to change too. We can grumble about it or we can enbrace the new oppurtunities.

Neat site Noel. Amazing how far (debatable) we've come in less than a century. Interesting thing in Canada is that all the weather forecasts and like are in celsius yet the fridgy's still talk in fahrenheit. Blueprints in most cases are laid out in standard inch/ft. scale (they tried using metric for a while) but did'nt last long. Yet most other measurements are done in metric- kilometres,grams, litres etc.

I think that would be Sears Roebuck and co (i think) eh?

Noel, great site.

It was big business here in New England. They used to get saw dust from the saw mills and pack it around the ice for insulation. It was put on trains and taken to New York City. Some made it as far as South America.

Then you boys came along with your freezone machines, like you were Home Depot. And ruined an entire industry.

id love to get ahold of one of those old ice boxes and restore it

just for giggles

Hey McCool, check this out

There's a museum near my house that still cuts ice and stores it.

http://www.cutsoldtrucks.com/iceday.htm

http://www.uncommondays.com/states/nh/events/iceday.htm


Noel

I bet his name was Joules are Watt or something like that.

Don't know the history of the BTU, but my Grandfather cut ice from the Great Lakes and stored underground for delivery. My Dad was a fridgy for 30+ years, I was born with freon in my blood, accounts for my depleted grey matter and receding hairline. I would hope we've risen above the old seaman's calculation on that stormy night.
Maybe not though, all the people confused by the principles behind the removal of heat from where it does matter to someplace where it does'nt matter will always pay!

When will North America embrace the Metric system? Makes sense for the whole world to use units derived from the decimal point instead of archaic standard measurements like the inch, foot, yard. Or oz. lb. ton.
Canada made a move to match the world 25+ years ago, and the Ewe's Ass still clings to ye olde measurement system.
What's up wid dat!

I remember hearing about the sea captain, one winter in the 1800s, who sat at a kitchen table with a stopwatch and a thermometer and farmer's matches and came up with the # of BTUs entailed in the phase changes of ice/water. Can anyone recall his name? I looked on the net but had no luck finding him. Thanks.