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38 weeks
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Dec

27th

2017

WWBP: Surgeons and Sewers · 2:05pm Dec 27th, 2017

What does the building of the first modern sewer have to do with some of our most important lessons in medicine? First in a series of historical articles that will explain my love affair with the Industrial era.

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Scratchpad

Scratchpad #1 · Dec 27th, 2017 · · ·

Modern germ theory of disease, perhaps?
Edit: realized that was a clickable link. Bravo.

Spectrumancer

Spectrumancer #2 · Dec 27th, 2017 · · ·

Whoa. Bravo.

Lightwavers

Lightwavers #3 · Dec 27th, 2017 · · ·

Excellent.

Manga Shoggoth

Manga Shoggoth #4 · Dec 27th, 2017 · · ·

It gets better:

You will notice that the tunnel cross-section is egg-shaped (and upside-down egg, admittedly). if I remember my history (a documentary a few decades ago) correctly it was so that when full the pipe would work normally, but when the water level became lower the flow rate would increase dramatically, scouring the pipe - The sewers were designed to be a self-cleaning system (up to a point, obviously).

Then, when the modern councils replaced sections they used modern cylindrical pipes, which didn't self-scour, and caused a few backups.

iisaw

iisaw #5 · Dec 27th, 2017 · · ·

Wonderful, and I mean that literally!

I think that last observation is why steampunk is so popular nowadays. Steamworks are understandable on a rather immediate level. Despite scale, it is a "cozy" technology.

horizon

horizon #6 · Dec 28th, 2017 · · ·

Thank you for crossposting these so that I can keep kicking myself into remembering to check out where your writing effort's going. Have been enjoying everything there but I'm so bad about adding new websites to my reading rotation.