#4-2-0

[greatnorthernofficial]

[angryskarloey]

American Norris locomotives in Britain:

Long story short, the Birmingham & Gloucester Railway ordered three 'A Extra' type locomotives from the Norris company - (a type which Norris advertised but had not yet produced.) Norris refused to deliver them unless the B&G bought 11 engines of A and B types that they neither needed nor wanted. When they arrived, they contained an alarming amount of cast iron (including in the axles) and they were running at 100psi as opposed to the promised 50 - terrifying directors as this high a pressure was unproven in boilers, and unsafe given the construction methods of the day. The Norris Brothers have been (not unfairly) described as 'scoundrels and flim-flam merchants' by A.L. Dawson, railway historian.

[slav-rar]

You know I got two states of mind -

stoned

and asleep.

[wickedrainbows]

[lindahall]

John Jervis – Scientist of the Day

John Bloomfield Jervis, an American engineer, was born Dec. 14, 1795.

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[kawaii-rhetorician]

Good afternoon. At the tone, Pacific Daylight Time will be: Four Twenty, exactly.

[silencestolethevoices]

I got 2 states of mind, stoned and asleep. First I hit the sweet leaf, and then I have nice dreams. When I get up, I wake and bake, take a piss and shave. My clock stopped at four-twenty, what you want me to say? I stay blazed all day, no matter where I’m creepin’. Hot boxing on your block, and at the spot on the weekends.

Kottonmouth Kings