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Copper wire? Are we going to work electronics next?
An auspicious number of likes, let's hope it gets ruined soon.
Oh poor Ian, his foals will be completely ruined by his headpats. When he gets old and crinkled he'll still be a happy man with many grandfoals to pet
The copper wire will need insulation too, wax impregnated silk is quite good. And you need quite a long copper wire (a least a meter) for a motor, maybe you can get away with 30cm, but long copper wire is better for low amperage (you do not want to melt is down).
DC motors need an extra coil if they lack a magnet, so you should use a magnet (natural magnets are not very strong but can work).
I wonder which variation of the electric motor toy he will go for first, dandelion sap latex might be good enough for insulation of open air wires but far too thermally insulating for windings, which is more resin or enamel based, but if they have boiled insect cases, shellac, that gives him 78 rpm records, which they already have, gramaphones?
Or given the time difference, he brought those as well?
Theres also thin mica slices which were used for small value capacitors for many decades, copper oxide rectifiers that turned out to be memristors, its even possible to demonstrate valve amplification in the open air if you have a voltaic pile large enough.
If they ahvent got it already, then the big advancement in copper wire production will be the correct dies for continuous draw down pultrusion, depending where they get the copper from in the first place, as using teh first chemically produced copper to make the low quality windings to generate electricity to make the first stage high quality electrodeposited copper for quality windings etc?
Faradays first motor used a pool of mercury for a fluid connection. The interaction with air can be can be dealt with by floating oil on the surface as being fluid and the speed low enough will keep the compounds isolated.
The other version would be a Homopolar motor, which is a disk with a magnetic field passing through it, and an electrical current from axel to rim. Again mercury, graphite or wire brush contacts can be used.
Because he should have the list, he can demonstrate the principles then not be too suprised if evolutionary improvements are thrown around over the table that gives rise to brushless induction motors and other such complexities after dozens of intermediate evolutionary steps.
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Potato battery.
Just wait til Miss Smith gets married, has foals, and becomes a granny.
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...err, I don't think this Miss Smith, a blacksmith, has any relation to our beloved apple farmer Granny Smith.
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......So the start of the Apple Family then? would be about around the right time wouldn't it?
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Unless she's GREAT granny smith. Or GREAT great granny smith. Remember, they didn't have the farm until Granny Smith Apple's parents founded it in Ponyville.
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Which was about two hundreds years before Twilight arrived, and I am pretty sure this story is not that long ago.
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This story is shortly after Luna was put in the moon, which was 1,000 years ago.
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I see I miscalculated the timeline. There goes my expectation of Twilight/Sunset grilling our human for information.
Thank goodness he's stayed his head-patting hand thus far.
Good on him for asking, and good on... uh... nameless-maid for offering that explanation.
Interesting bit about their one, big, happy family. I wonder if castle pages and other staff do the same. Ponies, am I right?
It's the small details we learn from these seemingly inconsequential interactions that make all the difference.
I'm loving it.
3 words for you.
Tesla Coil Music !
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How would that move it out of 'curious thing used for entertainment'?
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good point, but Vinyl scratch [DJpon3] would love it though.
Well, there is always the 3 obvious ones.
Lightbulb, Telegraph & the Electromagnet.
> Mrs Smith is T H I C C
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the creation of napalm requires the creation of gasoline which requires the refinery capable of splitting the hydrocarbons by weight which require a source of oil. Styrofoam requires high level chemicals to even start manufacture.
my point is that i dont think they even figured out oil can even be split into separate parts.
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So you're agreeing with me then?
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what was yer point to begin with?
i thought you were agreeing with him.
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I was very much not agreeing with him and asking where they would get any of the supplies needed at their current tech level.
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oh
Soooo... When does he start writing down atomic theory? ;P
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Should... he?
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Well how else will the ponies reign supreme over the world? Use friendship and magic? Don't make us laugh - only nuclear fire can bring true peace to the world!
...And it could help skip the whole "Global Warming" thing by using nuclear power instead of coal power 'n stuff when they start using electricity.
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Maybe he ends up just going with Hydroelectric, since Ponyville in the future has a giant dam for some reason.
Is he going to be the equivalent of Tesla?
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Overshadowed by some other engineer?
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I meant being THAT Revolutionary.
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He's doing that, yep.