02Oct 2020 by Paul H. Kindling
Bombed – 4 April 1945

Bombed – 4 April 1945

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Bombed - 4 April 1945 Paul Helmut Kindling Presented 4 January 2020    Topeka Saturday Night Literary Club* Season 137 For details and Critique see Slide 42ff  Expanded February 2020  1. Bombers The modern aerial bomb, with its distinctive elongated shape, stabilizing fins, and nose-fitted detonator, is a Bulgarian invention. In the Balkan War of 1912, waged by Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, and Montenegro - the Balkan League - against Turkey. Bulgarian army captain, Simeon Petrov, adapted and enlarged a number of grenades for use from an airplane.1 Seen here is an RAF store of rows of  500 pound bombs.2    A family note:  A more primitive device, a tin can filled with explosives dropped out of a biplane injured one of my uncles in 1917 on the Western Front.  He had…
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Bottlenecks, an essay for the Saturday Night Literary Club, Topeka, Kansas

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Bottlenecks. An essay prepared for the Saturday Night Literary Club, Topeka, Kansas, presented on Saturday, 11 October 2008. Submitted by Paul H. Kindling, the Gentleman from Mississippi. The bottleneck represents a paradox. The top of a container narrowed so that it can be closed and spillage prevented. It is descriptive when the cork is also called a “stopper”. The device I used to enhance, by aeration, the taste of the product of fermentation, by the way, a process discovered by the Sumerians about 12,000 years ago, demonstrates the physics of the bottleneck. Where flow through a bottle’s neck is faster the pressure is lower. The italian physicist Giovanni Batista Venturi ( d 1822) described this principle. Sometime around New Years 1930 two different strands of DNA, the building blocks of…
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