14-02-2023, 01:52 PM
I didn't know either - just goes to show, you really do learn something every day.. 
I'm now wondering though - which clever bugger first worked it out that it could work...& had to go & look that up!
It was one very clever chap named William Watts of Bristol in 1782.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_tower...ot%20tower.
I'm now wondering though - which clever bugger first worked it out that it could work...& had to go & look that up!
It was one very clever chap named William Watts of Bristol in 1782.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_tower...ot%20tower.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)