Funny old thing ITC Auntie Google seemed keen to remind me of the awesome failure that was Google + this morning.
One of the tasks I had for yesterday was to replace all the smoke alarms in the building, the old ones work properly, but I like to replace at least one on every floor every year. I put the new ones, sourced on the internet, I tested them all by pressing the button and they all worked fine.
Then I lit a cigarette (I Don't smoke) and held it underneath them, all of the old ones worked fine and none of the new ones did anything, didn't detect smoke at all although the test buttons indicated they were working properly.
The implications of smoke detectors that both prove they work and don't detect smoke are a bit scary.
On to yesterday's answer, I'm sorry it proved so difficult, I lived in some very cheap accommodation back in the early 1970s in some cases it didn't have electricity at all and the mystery device was for lighting the gas lights in every room.
The mechanism in the cylinder generates static electricity using the same principle as a wimshurst machine, something that every school laboratory had. "All hold hands and I will wind the handle and electrocute you." is what the science teacher would say.
There was also the business of "Please Miss, can you make my hair stand on end too."
As promised pictures of the inside
When the middle of the gas lighter spins round the action knocks some of the electrons off the atoms so they become ions (positively charged atoms), this leads to a change in the voltage. same thing happens to clouds in thunder storms, but in this case you get a spark in the end that you use to light the gas lamp.
Mechanics is strange, every rascal thinks he know the answer according to Einstein, when you get to quantum mechanics the first stage is understanding why you can't understand how it works.
Next Thanet photos as previously coronavirus statistics will get posted right at the bottom of the post and later on in the day, so don't scroll all the way down if you came here to escape.
The idea here is to try and produce a reasonable daily record, both to understand what's going on a bit more than the BBC news items, to be able comparisons and to have a record for the future.
A lot of the statistics are being used badly mainly because if you compare a small country like the UK with a large one with say double the population the larger country looks twice as bad.
if you have 100 people and 10 of them die it's different to if your 200 people and 10 of them die.
I'm using Statista to compare countries
| Confirmed deaths (absolute) | Population (in millions) | Deaths per million | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 14,045 | 46.72 | 300.6 |
| Italy | 17,127 | 60.43 | 283.41 |
| Belgium | 2,035 | 11.42 | 178.16 |
| France | 10,328 | 66.99 | 154.18 |
| Netherlands | 2,101 | 17.23 | 121.93 |
| Switzerland | 824 | 8.52 | 96.75 |
| United Kingdom | 6,159 | 66.49 | 92.63 |
| Sweden | 591 | 10.18 | 58.04 |
| Iran | 3,872 | 81.8 | 47.33 |
| Ireland | 210 | 4.85 | 43.27 |
| United States | 12,888 | 327.17 | 39.39 |
| Denmark | 203 | 5.8 | 35.02 |
| Portugal | 345 | 10.28 | 33.55 |
| Austria | 243 | 8.85 | 27.47 |
| Germany | 2,016 | 82.93 | 24.31 |
| Slovenia | 36 | 2.07 | 17.41 |
| Norway | 89 | 5.31 | 16.75 |
| Estonia | 21 | 1.32 | 15.9 |
| Panama | 59 | 4.18 | 14.13 |
| Ecuador | 220 | 17.08 | 12.88 |
| North Macedonia | 26 | 2.08 | 12.48 |
| Romania | 205 | 19.47 | 10.53 |
| Canada | 381 | 37.06 | 10.28 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 33 | 3.32 | 9.93 |
| Dominican Republic | 98 | 10.63 | 9.22 |
stats from Euronews
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