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Monday, September 12, 2005
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Where does Water come from these days? |
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That very question might get more interesting in our future |
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Did anyone of you out there ever use one of these items in your homes? Does anyone even remember what this photo (left) example is? I have a couple of items for today that are mostly older than I am. I didn't have any of these items available to me in any of our immediate family's homes but I have experienced some of them.
One of my grandfathers was a farmer. The farmers can't all be bad people can they? We all enjoy eating in one way or another. One of the increasingly rare occurrences about his own house was the fact that it was built by him in, well, the "middle of nowhere". In these once rare home locations, there was no water delivered to them by any such water company. There just weren't any water pipes going to the so-called "nowheres" in those days. Maybe it's already a hundred years late for most of us. I didn't want to live in any neighborhood that - ya' know - had sewers and/or fresh water for each of their monthly bills.
Let's all use our imaginations briefly. Is there an even more expensive individual opportunity to achieve a few things that we all have "modernly" taken for granted in certain ways? |
| Hey, I don't exactly apperceive whatever went on in charge of my own grandfather. Let me think as well. Let's see, if anyone wants a bath in order to, let's assume, maybe wash your own hair then how many buckets of water are you going to need from any outdoors' hand-pump? How are you going to heat it up? By the way, bring some extra water to cook your corn cobs and, ahem, you might want to brush your own teeth at some point in our histories.
I don't know how I should present this story but I'll try anyway. I didn't know my own grandfather very well. I think maybe he knew me a little bit better. As we all might know, there's a bit of an age difference in our lives. He always told me things like, "Don't fall off of that tractor. You're hauling a (so-called) hedge-hog. There won't be anything left of you except for "hamburger". Hah! "Can I ride a horse today?" "No problem. Don't fall off one those either boy," he said. He was probably correct. I was about seven years old and the horses never minded me either. My body weight was rather light in any horse's opinion.
My grandfather at some point installed one of his own grand discoveries. The sexes involved here don't really matter. Everyone probably wanted a water faucet in some of our home rooms. Perhaps he wanted to install a new item called a "shower". Duh! I think that most of we men really want those odd things. The following photo is the equally odd thing that my grandfather installed. Good lord. Is that thing more expensive than any of our own water bills these days? |
Daniel Halladay in 1854 is credited with having designed the first commercially successful new windmill in America. |
The some-called miracle windmill that occurred in America came to us in 1854.
The odd contraption which my grandfather installed resembles the following photo. The horse that I frequently rode often jumped across the creek that separated this windmill from the house. I never tied this mare up while I investigated this new windmill technology. Why did she wait for me? A couple of sugar cubes were a great example. Ask me why I love horses sometime? No, I'm not a woman. That's all.
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| I wasn't so much fascinated with any horse but I was fascinated with the admittedly simple windmill process. When the wind blew a pump similar to the ones in my first photo today was put into action without any actual human muscle. Without availability of either energy there was no water to be had. I'll tell you about how all of this really worked. |
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These tanks still exist. I have no idea why. The water was pumped from a well by the windmill into the bottom of this tank. As this tank filled from its bottom, the air pressure in the tank increased until at some point, the windmill quit pumping. The tank was as full as it was going to get. The pressure in this tank ensured water delivery to its nearby house. Hmmm. Magic. No electricity was necessary. If no wind came, then there was still water - at various flow rates. | |
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Windmills' popularity is increasing these days. Can you differentiate the old ones from the new ones? |
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