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Is that a toilet bowl float in the picture? Perhaps that was functioning as the mechanism's accelerometer?
by danans 5y ago
Is that a toilet bowl float in the picture? Perhaps that was functioning as the mechanism's accelerometer?
- rob74 5y agoFrom https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite/ https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite/: > Fourth, inside the top box Big John rigged a float from a toilet cistern. If the box was flooded with water or foam, the float would rise, completing a circuit. The "accelerometer" was another device: > Fifth, beside the float was a tilt mechanism built from a length of PVC pipe lined with more aluminum foil; inside hung a metal pendulum held under tension from below with a rubber band. [...] Once this was armed, if the bomb was moved in any way, the end of the pendulum would make contact with the foil, completing a circuit.