DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoTIL about this device for resuscitating canaries in coal minesmuseumcrush.orgexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up1253cross-posted to: til@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1253external-linkTIL about this device for resuscitating canaries in coal minesmuseumcrush.orgDeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square14linkfedilinkcross-posted to: til@lemmy.ca
minus-squarePyroNeurosislinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 days agoWhat strikes me is the use of canaries into the 1950’s. Surely we could have had some other means of detecting toxic gasses besides small animals.
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoIt said they were upset about losing their birds when electrical sensors arrived in the 1980s! I kinda thought that many of the coal mines were closing by then at least in Britain.
minus-squareRusty@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoOf course not, they are the government drones.
What strikes me is the use of canaries into the 1950’s. Surely we could have had some other means of detecting toxic gasses besides small animals.
It said they were upset about losing their birds when electrical sensors arrived in the 1980s!
I kinda thought that many of the coal mines were closing by then at least in Britain.
Are birds animals?
What a wild question
Of course not, they are the government drones.
yes.