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From: pml@casetek.casetek.UUCP (Pat Lashley)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Disk Striping (description and references) plus class brief
Message-ID: <128@casetek.casetek.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 21:06:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: casetek.128
Posted: Thu Aug 20 21:06:15 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 13:35:42 EDT
References: <2432@ames.arpa> <3721@well.UUCP> <2838@phri.UUCP> <164@umich.UUCP>
Reply-To: pml@casetek.UUCP (Pat Lashley)
Organization: CASE Technology, Mountain View
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Summary: Hindenburg designers wanted to use Helium, but politics forbade.

In article <164@umich.UUCP> cja@crim.eecs.umich.edu.UUCP (Charles J. Antonelli) writes:
>In article <2838@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>>	I understand that in big power plants, the insides of the
>>generators are filled with hydrogen instead of air because the speed of
>>sound is faster so the rotor tips don't go supersonic.  Apparantly, as long
>>as you keep oxygen away, there is no danger of explosion.
>
>Yeh, I'll bet the designers of the Hindenburg had the same attitude.
>

Actually, the designers of the Hindenburg wanted to use Helium, but
the US government would not allow sales of US Helium to Germany.  At
that time recent discoveries of helium under Texas gave the US the
largest known supply of helium in the world.  (It might still be, I
left my Britannica at home today... :-)


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