{"id":69824,"date":"2017-10-24T00:39:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T17:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/nobels-furniture-design-was-dynamite-letters\/"},"modified":"2017-10-24T01:05:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T18:05:06","slug":"nobels-furniture-design-was-dynamite-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/nobels-furniture-design-was-dynamite-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel\u2019s furniture design was dynamite | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOne-legged stools | Mercia mudstone | Death by fish | Lancia cars | Naming your coldAll this discussion about the relative design and merits of three-legged stools (Letters passim) is as nothing compared with the so-called suicide stool, a one-legged stool designed by Alfred Nobel to prevent operators of the nitroglycerin reaction vats \u2013 part of the production process of his dynamite \u2013 falling asleep and allowing an exothermic runaway to occur, with the consequent explosion ruining everyone\u2019s day.Danny TanzeyThornton Cleveleys, Lancashire \u2022 Graham Thompson needs to be careful referring to the Keuper marl rock formation as a defining \u201cnorth\/south\u201d feature (Letters, 21 October). I was recently admonished by a geology expert for using this term. \u201cWe now call it Mercia mudstone,\u201d I was told. But marl or mudstone aside, north of the Trent is True North.Martin RussellNottingham Continue reading…
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