Tales of the Unexpected, from the 1970s, many of the early British ones were written by Dahl. I think they're on Youtube. ISTR it was Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected at first.

Fetchez la vache.

Amongst the many theories about Crabb's disappearance;

"Crabb's age and poor health caused by his heavy drinking and smoking had made him unsuitable for the mission that he had been assigned."

Stick that one in your pipe and smoke it, Crabbe.

Different Buster Crabb.

Because of convection mostly.

The fire mostly happens in the bed, the bottom and you add new fuel on top of the hot burning coals.

The heat radiated from the fire bed causes the new fuel to break down (pyrolysis) into flammable gases, vapours and solid particles.

However, hot air rises, so the air flow goes upwards, through the bed of the fire. The excess air and combustion products go upwards, through the as-yet unburnt fresh fuel, and it carries away some of the combustible gases, vapours & particles upwards, away from the fire bed. It doesn't get burned and that's the soot.

Look up downdraught gasifier stoves and secondary combustion.

It was a tragic irony that they'd survived WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam and/or whatever else, only to be killed by contaminated water droplets in the USA.

The post below was something I posted on a UK motoring forum 20 years ago, so I've just copied and pasted it.

https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=6781

I also mentioned car/truck windscreen washer bottles as a legionella risk, which was 8 years before the UK's HSE issued a warning about using screen wash to kill the bacteria.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10293519

"The wet cooling towers are the problem, as stated by many others.

The heat removed by the cooling process is rejected at the condenser, where the refrigerant vapour is condensed into a liquid and it's latent heat of condensation is released.

In wet AC systems the condensers are cooled by water. The water is cooled at the cooling tower and recirculated. The cooling tower ponds tend to collect all the particles in the air, limescale, leaves, insects, etc, and are often at lukewarm temperatures, providing ideal conditions for the growth of many organisms. The water is intentionally sprayed into the air to cause some of it to evaporate, creating an aerosol of water droplets containing any organisms that have been cultivated in the water.

The legionella bacteria is present in water everywhere and will multiply if given favourable conditions.

The risk of infection is much greater for the elderly or infirm, so the disease has affected many hospitals, in the past. The risk wasn?t recognized until a group of elderly ex-servicemen, attending an American Legion Convention were felled by a hotel cooling tower in Philadelphia in 1976. The disease had existed prior to that, but had been regarded as yet another strain of pneumonia.

The (UK) HSE's Code of Practice on Legionnaires' disease, L8, states that a foreseeable risk exists in;

a) water systems incorporating a cooling tower;

b) water systems incorporating an evaporative condenser;

c) hot and cold water systems;

d) other systems containing water at which is likely to exceed 20 degC and which may release a spray or aerosol."

They probably inhaled contaminated water droplets outside.

There was an outbreak in Cumbria, UK, 15 years or more back and it was random people passing through the vicinity who were infected.

The cooling towers weren't 'properly maintained' by modern standards because the hazard wasn't recognized.

Cooling towers mostly vanished from AC systems in subsequent decades because the maintenance & chemical water treatment regimes are now so onerous and expensive. Air cooled condensers are more usual now.

Similarly, spray humidifiers were replaced with steam humidifiers, etc..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_disease#Epidemiology

Elderly men, possibly with a large proportion of smokers or ex-smokers. It had been thought the outbreak was a form of pneumonia.

They inhaled atomized water droplets from the cooling towers that carried the bacteria.

They don't live in mechanical ventilation. They live in tepid water which has nutrients. Anything with warm water is hazardous.

The first case, where it was identified, killed a lot of US Legionnaires (armed forces veterans) at a convention at a hotel in Philadelphia. The source was an evaporative cooling tower, which uses evaporating water to discard waste heat from the air conditioning systems.

The thing about cooling towers is that the water is recycled from a pond in the base of the tower. It collects insects, dust leaves, limescale, etc, nutrients for bacteria. And the water is warm. The bacteria was distributed on the water droplets leaving the tower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_disease#Epidemiology

He lost 2 sons in WW2, one was an RAF bomber pilot killed on the second day of the war, one killed in 1945 during the Granville Raid.

I've no idea what the thing with the boy on the boat was about.

Or are you a stranger without even a name,

imprisoned forever behind a glass pane.

In an old photograph, torn, tattered and stained

And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame

>really simply because all of the heat is contained in that phase change.

What she/he said.

It takes more energy to evaporate a pound of water than it does to melt a pound of steel.

The phase change is where most of the heat transfer happens.

Bye.

OK. Bye.

The 15 year-old internet foundation expert says I'm wrong, so it must be true.

Bye.

>Glad to see you admit

I seem to have missed that bit.

Shrinkable clay sub-soil may be the phrase you're struggling to recall, Mr foundation repair professional. It's probably not the problem. You should look up the word 'Professional' in a dictionary; it doesn't mean what you seem to think in this context.

Bye.

> Clay based soils shrink and swell

Which would cause subsidence cracking in a wall, due to unequal movement; under pin & make good etc..

it's not a wall; think on.

>What are your credentials to support your ill founded opinion?

I retired from the free advice business and will offer no further opinions. I'm sure you'll get there eventually.

Better idea, maybe don't offer free advice to ill-mannered dullards.

Have you thought of anything that wopuld explain it leaning away from the gate yet? It's not good.

>It’s leaning away from the gate…

So maybe you should have said that.

The weight of the gate (more relevant, the bending moment exerted by the gate) is overturning the column.

Maybe fix a wheel to the end of the gate and install a quadrant track for it to run on. No more weight that's overturning the column, the weight is supported by the wheel.

The proper clothing for such weather is a car.

He was that officer.

>65% of HMS Trincomalee and over 95% of HMS Unicorn

I didn't know of those ships, thanks for that.

Tricomalee was built of Indian teak, which is probably why she's survived; I think ship worm would devour European wood in a few years. Unicorn has never sailed.