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Ken Marshall Posts: 804 Joined: 20th Jun 2012 Location: Australia | Posted at 22:06 on 13th April 2014 Yes Vince,it's solar panels.Well done. Some people have installed alarm systems to prevent theft.Others have used special bolts.As the price of panels drops,I guess theft will decrease.
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Vince Hawthorn Posts: 12758 Joined: 19th Apr 2010 Location: UK | Posted at 22:10 on 13th April 2014 Thanks Ken, it was a proccess of elimination- there was not anything else left on the roof to nick except guano. Time for a think. |
| Vince Hawthorn Posts: 12758 Joined: 19th Apr 2010 Location: UK | Posted at 22:26 on 13th April 2014 Ok then, it is 1855 in Paris and the maid knocks over a kerosene lamp onto a tablecloth. Who's tablecloth, and what was the consequences? |
rustyruth Posts: 18775 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | Posted at 22:49 on 13th April 2014 Well done Vince, never thought of solar panels, we don't see many around here, people have wind turbines instead. I'm thinking about your quizzy |
| Vince Hawthorn Posts: 12758 Joined: 19th Apr 2010 Location: UK | Posted at 22:59 on 13th April 2014 That tells you something about your local weather ! |
| rustyruth Posts: 18775 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | Posted at 13:19 on 14th April 2014 Queen Victoria visited Napoleon III in the Palce of Versailles in 1855, but I can't make a connection between that and a clumsy maid with a lamp  |
| Vince Hawthorn Posts: 12758 Joined: 19th Apr 2010 Location: UK | Posted at 21:42 on 14th April 2014 Sorry Ruth not anything Royal. Just to confuse the issue in research I have seen the dates 1825 and 1835 as well as 1855 and the contents of the lamp being turpentine or camphor as well as kerosene, either way the principle is the same , the person is the same , and the consequences are the same. Edited by: Vince Hawthorn at:14th April 2014 21:56 |
| Ken Marshall Posts: 804 Joined: 20th Jun 2012 Location: Australia | Posted at 05:47 on 15th April 2014 Jean Baptiste Jolly noticed his tablecloth was cleaner after the contents of the lamp wet the tablecloth.He started a dry cleaning service that is credited as the earliest application of dry cleaning technology.His process did not use water so he called it dry cleaning.
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| Vince Hawthorn Posts: 12758 Joined: 19th Apr 2010 Location: UK | Posted at 22:13 on 15th April 2014 Spot on Ken well done, I did not give too much to go on so very good sir- over to you. |
| rustyruth Posts: 18775 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | Posted at 22:22 on 15th April 2014 Well done Ken. |
