Raising Steam: (Discworld novel 40) (Discworld Novels)

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Pge 144 - Pratchett plays with the notion of "getting above one's station in life" and a "railway station" - the trains as the great equalizer in allowing social and physical mobility. Took a Level in Badass: Moist engages in wilful violence for the first time in this book, and does surprisingly well. As the vessel started to plunge by the head, to conserve steam and keep the lights on as long as possible, the main dynamos would have been fed from the furthest aft steam line, that from Boiler Room 2 above. Once Boiler Room 5 fires were drawn owing to water ingress, the steam from the boilers would start to decay, and the isolation from them to the main steam lines and the line to the emergency dynamos would have been shut off. I love this: a realisation that as much as we need to build a new world, we need those prepared to tear down what we already have. Vetinari remade Ankh-Morpork in his own image, bringing a strangely benevolent dictatorship to the Disc, one that led to a more diverse and technologically minded society. As the books we have read have shown us, this was not easy. Then again, it never is. Terry Pratchett Books on Facebook". Facebook. Archived from the original on 30 April 2022. [ user-generated source]

Raising Steam - Sir Terry Pratchett

Off we go aft into the turbine room again, where we can take a moment to pass round the equipment to the port outboard side. The telegraphs ring! Standby Main Engines. The Junior enters this and the time in the Movement Book. You wipe your hands on your boilersuit and try not to fondle the reversing engine control overmuch. The bells ring again – STOP! Shutting off the throttle, the engine comes slowly to a halt. You don’t know what the next command will be, so leave the reversing gear in the ahead position. Science fiction author Cory Doctorow, in his review [7] on Boing Boing, remarked that Pratchett "never quite balanced whimsy and gravitas as carefully as this, and it works beautifully. This is a spectacular novel, and a gift from a beloved writer to his millions of fans."Once lit, the dampers adjust the boiler draft and the fires start to heat the water in the fire-tube boilers. By this time the engineers whose station is in the reciprocating engineroom will have engaged the steam turning gear on both engines, and are oiling round the main, connecting and crosshead bearings and guides, as well as starting the forced lube oil pumps (steam driven of course) for the main bearings. Titanic’s engines are open crankcase, so oil is also directed to oil pots by skilled oilers when the engine is running. The cylinder oil pots are also filled and set up to admit cylinder oil in a controlled amount. After turning the engine, the turning gear is taken out to avoid damage when the engine starts. We’ll watch what they are doing to get the main engines ready for sea, and give a hand where necessary. To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork — a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements: earth, air, fire and water. This being Ankh-Morpork, it's soon drawing astonished crowds, some of whom caught the zeitgeist early and arrive armed with notepads and very sensible rainwear. Before Standby is rung on the telegraphs we can take a look at what’s happening in the feedwater system. Referring to the drawing in Figure 19:

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There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal. items in a ship intended primarily for engineers working on board and those who working ashore . For any remarks please As the seawater induction for the auxiliary seawater pump was still under the water, the steam lines fracturing when the ship broke in two would have blown off the steam to the dynamo and the lights would have died. Some survivors reported that they saw the lamps glow before going out, commensurate with the dynamo running down. With the ship at such an angle, any engineers left below would not have physically been able to save themselves even if they wanted to. Starting the main dynamos Precision F-Strike: Amusingly averted, the map in the front of the book contains an Effing Forest which leads to some entertaining wood based puns later on. The world lives between those who say it cannot be done and those who say that it can . . . it's just a matter of thinking creatively.'Or better yet, you can mix the two: speaking it aloud (or listening to the audiobook recording by Stephen Briggs) you get a mix of English and French - "Eggs on/en pain" - eggs on bread, or, for those used to listening in two languages at once and adapting sense accordingly, eggs on toast. This fits in beautifully with the first introduction to the Marquis: he is married to a Morporkian woman and presents a banquet of fusion cuisine, literally wedding the Quirmian and Morporkian (French and English) into a shouldn't-work-but-it-does meal. The aristocrats, if such they could be called, generally hated the whole concept of the train on the basis that it would encourage the lower classes to move about and not always be available." And I was underwhelmed by the solution for the weak bridge at the end. It only barely holds together, and surely wouldn't stand close examination. Cruel Mercy: Rhys leaves Ardent alive, but only so his fate can be decided by a jury selected from the families of his victims. A young man invents the steam engine and the train and railroad soon follow. Lord Vetinari feels the winds of change blowing and puts Moist von Lipwig in charge of the burgeoning railway industry. But not everyone likes the idea of progress...