Video: A story about "The Aspen Stake Effect"
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
A bike like a bike, but out of the blue you can't imagine such a thing … In one Siberian city, at the height of the war, a gunpowder factory was opened. And for many years he regularly supplied the country with gunpowder. There were no problems with the quality for forty years, but suddenly the gunpowder began to "dust". Ideally, the powders resemble smooth shiny beads, but here they became dull and small scales began to lag behind them.
In circulation, such gunpowder is extremely dangerous, prone to spontaneous combustion.
Commissions came to the plant, checked the entire technical process, from top to bottom, but found no deviations. And the gunpowder is dusty.
Then the chairman of the commission, wise by experience, went to watch the technical process again.
On the top floor there was a small "concrete mixer" where the original components were mixed into a homogeneous mass. The workshops of gunpowder factories are not very crowded and one employee worked here, who came to work as a young girl during the war.
Under the watchful eye, the grandmother fell asleep with everything she needed and the kneading began. At this point, the chairman asked her to show how she actually works, and not according to what was written.
The grandmother stopped the mixer, opened the lid, took a stick in her hands and began to stir the "dough". "So that there are no lumps" - she explained to the surprised people. She interferes and says: "What a wonderful stick I had, it interfered with it for forty years, but recently it disappeared!"
The KGB did not eat its bread in vain: two days later the stick was found. An electrician grabbed it when he was fixing the wiring in the workshop, and then threw it away. An electrician was found, the place of discharge and the stick itself.
The stick was identified by the grandmother and returned to the process. The gunpowder stopped dusting. The old "mixer" was made of aspen, and the new one was made of birch, the chemists could not understand how it works, but did not interfere with the application.
In its own circles, this story got the name - „ aspen stake effect .
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