[JRandomFreeper]

LOL! The two bookshelves to the left side of my parlor in Ft. Worth. Ignore the top half of the leftmost bookshelf, that's mostly art and music. Stop at the Russian and French books on the rightmost shelf. All of the engineering stuff is within easy reach, and handy.

Most of my books are 1860s to 1940s. They had very practical advice, but you have to work for it.

I have a DuPont book from 1918 that shows how to use their product for everything from breaking pan soils, moving tree stumps, sealing broken substrata to curing hemorrhoids and digging drainage ditches. Their product, back then was explosives.

/johnny

[chimera]

I have a DuPont book from 1918 that shows how to use their product for everything from breaking pan soils, moving tree stumps, sealing broken substrata to curing hemorrhoids and digging drainage ditches. Their product, back then was explosives.

Explosives, eh? That sounds like a really "permanent" cure for hemorroids...:-)