Hello, friends. Instead of an epigraph, I want to offer you the following picture.
I have felt antipathy for this character and his quotes since the Komsomol times, when they were forced to rewrite his works, which were apparently born in an inflamed mind. But that's not what we're talking about now. As you know, words cannot be thrown out of a song and, alas, it will not be possible to nullify its existence in history, and even more so in the scale of its activity. But this quote seems quite brilliant. How can you replace God with electricity? This is the same as replacing a hedgehog with a snake. The meaning of this phrase is probably attributed by many to brain syphilis heavy revolutionary everyday life. At first glance, this is true. But if you carefully delve into all the works of alternative physicists-researchers like me, there was electricity in churches and not only in churches in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century, and what else. They only considered him a gift of God, and they treated him accordingly. But the power of the Soviets, with their propaganda throughout all generations from that time to the end of the USSR, so brainwashed, shifted the emphasis and hid (broke) what is unnecessary for ordinary people to understand that no one already perceives this fact. Let's understand this with a simple example that doesn't have to go far.
Currently, in the section for ads for the sale of antiques, there are ads for the sale of such items:
Some kind of porcelain nuts with metal loops and strange holes for little bugs. Or, for example, the same products, but already finished, cast from an incomprehensible metal:
Guess what it is. These are not dishes, not boxes, and not a light version of a bee hive. This is a common counterweight for an antique chandelier.
Has anyone seen such chandeliers? Immediately the first question is, why does the goat need an accordion, well, in the sense of a chandelier, this counterweight. There is even information on the network that at the end of the 19th century, due to the fall of these counterweights, an accident occurred at the Opera Garnier, which became the basis of one of the plots of the "Phantom of the Opera" play. Counterweights (!) To the theater chandelier, which weighed several tons. If these chandeliers were hanging in the wind, then you can understand why it is counterbalanced. But they hung in the room. Even if a large room is like a theater, there are still no winds there. In addition, it is generally contraindicated to weight theater chandeliers with counterweights, any ceiling beams and brackets have a tensile strength. So what's the secret to focus?
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Obviously, it only lies in the fact that during the operation, so to speak, the chandelier had to be periodically lowered up and down. And for what? Of course, light and extinguish. Well, maybe wipe some more. Lighting and extinguishing is, of course, good, but only if there is a kerosene lamp in the chandelier. For a theatrical chandelier, this is complete nonsense. If there were candles or even a kerosene lamp in it, the theater in the course of the play would turn into a sauna or gas chamber due to the combustion of hydrocarbons. Well, the ceiling would be so smoky that it would be whitewashed twice a week. For some reason they prefer not to think about these facts. In the case of small household chandeliers, the problems would be the same, well, perhaps on a smaller scale. Of course, they also used kerosene lamps in houses, and even pendant lamps. My childhood was spent in the 70s, when we lived in, as they say now, in a dilapidated housing stock, and power outages were not uncommon. For this occasion, there was a kerosene lamp in the house, and even kerosene was sold for it. The neighbors even had lamps suspended from the ceiling with a homemade suspension. But I don’t remember a case where kerosene lamps had at least some kind of lampshade, even glass. There was a case when the lamp was placed on the window through negligence, after 5 minutes the window glass cracked. What is it all about? In general, the fact that I got into the hands of an advertising catalog for the sale of chandeliers and spare parts for them, a foreign edition, 1911. Here are some interesting handouts.after 5 minutes the window glass cracked. What is it all about? In general, the fact that I got into the hands of an advertising catalog for the sale of chandeliers and spare parts for them, a foreign edition, 1911. Here are some interesting handouts.after 5 minutes the window glass cracked. What is it all about? In general, the fact that I got into the hands of an advertising catalog for the sale of chandeliers and spare parts for them, a foreign edition, 1911. Here are some interesting handouts.
There are 20 such types of chandeliers. It can be seen that they are all electric. Any kerosene lantern is not compatible with the lampshade. And for some, it can be seen that a ring hangs under the lampshade to raise and lower the lampshade with the lamp. However, there are some peculiarities. Electricians reading this post, correct if wrong. The first issue is the wires leading to the lamps. Why are they not in the pictures? If wires are depicted on the rollers carrying the suspension, how long will they last given their quality at the beginning of the 20th century? On options 1,2,3, the closure is inevitable very soon, if the chandelier is raised and lowered every day. The second question is where the wires to the lamp in the lampshade can come from. Such technological holes are not provided. If we had it, of course, they would have finished it with a file, but in Europe they are meticulous about it. The third question is option 4 itself. Do the wires going to the lamp in the lampshade have to hang in the air along their entire length? Even we would not have come to this.
The conclusion is very simple - all lamps in the lampshades were wireless. On the rollers for lifting and lowering, cables or small chains were used. Variants 4 and 6 are made in a combined form, i.e. the upper row was turned on from the switch, as we have now, and the lower row was raised and lowered by the counterweight. The secret of the counterweight is that when the distance from the counterweight to the lamp decreased to a certain threshold value, it began to influence it with something, and it began to glow. And how could he so influence? We look at advertising of counterweights as separate spare parts from this catalog.
As you can see, most counterweights have plugs. The same ones that once closed the holes in the photo of antique counterweights. Most likely, the artist simplified his work and simply did not draw them on some counterweights, but in fact they were on everyone. But what were they for? This means that some kind of liquid was poured into the counterweights. Counterweight variants 1, 2, 3 had a sealed tube through their length for the passage of a cable, but the counterweight body itself was sealed. Well, what is not water, then this is definitely for sure. Any counterweight made of cast metal or ceramic weighs a lot more than water, and water tends to look for holes and flow out. In the case of a porcelain hanger, for example, according to options 10-13, water could flow out from the lower point of the porcelain nut, because the metal hinge is attached with its top part with an inner pin without spacers. Water drops off. Petroleum products, acids and vegetable fats are understandably too. And what else could be poured into there, and at the same time so that this substance is heavier than non-ferrous metal or ceramics?
The answer once again, dear dmitrij_an, climbs outward with enviable persistence and is more and more difficult not to notice it. But this time the hint was given by Google itself, not at all intentionally. It's good that now there is software for scanning texts and translating. Any study of archival printed publications of an average volume takes 10-15 minutes. And when you upload a scanned text on electrical topics of the 19th century into Google translate, incomprehensible phrases "tin balls", "primary tin circuit", "tin light", etc. start to appear … Everywhere there is the word "tin", and it makes no difference, in English or French. Further more. Several times I caught the phrase "tin-mercury mixture", but never in conjunction with any electrical terms. A google search returns the following results:
“Tin-zinc amalgam is used for rubbing the pillows of electric machines in order to enhance their action. The most common and suitable for this purpose, the so-called Kienmeier amalgam, consists of 2 parts of mercury, 1 part of zinc and 1 part of tin."
"Tin-mercury amalgam must be stored in a special vessel, but even there it loses its properties."
"Tin-mercury amalgam was used in Christian churches to extract the energy of Jupiter"
And so on in the same spirit. You can google it. Tin-mercury amalgam is a semi-liquid mixture up to a temperature of + 55C, above it - a liquid.
Also, for fun, the translator gives out:
mercury-silver amalgam - Silver amalgam (English), amalgame d'argent (French)
mercury-gold amalgam - Gold amalgam (eng), amalgame d'or (fr.)
mercury-lead amalgam - Lead amalgam (English), amalgame de plomb (French)
mercury-tin amalgam (do not fall) - tain (English), tain (French)
So, short and clear. There are no such coincidences in the languages of the Indo-Romance group. The meaning of the word "hiding place" begins to grasp, this is the very place where containers with tin amalgam were hidden in buildings. We, perhaps, about 100 years ago, it also had this meaning, but then it slightly transformed.
So we come to the conclusion that these counterweights are our etheric capacitors, well known from previous articles, only on a small scale. And inside them was a mercury amalgam. When the gas-discharge lamp approached it, it began to give light. And the secret of our etheric capacitors is probably already very close to being solved. If anyone has an antique counterweight like this, try looking inside. If you see something that looks like traces of mercury, then there is no doubt further. If someone wants to repeat this idea at home, I do not advise, there are two more secrets, without the knowledge of which the chandelier will not burn. If in all seriousness someone wants to repeat this business or even put it on stream - write until you are finally banned.
Well, now we have what Lenin offered us to replace. There is no longer either it or its building, but the process of consuming surrogate electricity sees no end. But that's all for now. You can take this post as a joke (with a bit of a joke, of course).
Until next time.