Crazy dinnertime topics of conversation, #1:
Using only the technology available in the 18th century, is it possible to build a one-person device for the accurate projection of sulphuric acid?
Personally, I don't see why you wouldn't just put the stuff in fragile glass and throw it, but there's no reasoning with some people.
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Assuming no English fielders are involved, throwing a glass vial of the stuff is an accurate projection if sulphuric acid, no?
Did this topic arise from some steampunk book, or just random?
Ah, the English fielder jokes NEVER get old.
The topic was rather whether one could make a sulfuric acid launcher, along the lines of a flamethrower. And, in a way, it was prompted by a book - Anthony's vaguely attempting to write a vampire-fighting comicbook set in pre-revolutionary France.
The term "sulfuric acid launcher" conjures up some very strange images. I was thinking something more like a vitriol supersoaker. But without the laughs.
Well, dipping back into helpful briefly, 17th century European and colonials were well aware of how to use pressure to project a liquid. Large hand pumping mechanisms were built to fight fires as early as the 1500s in Europe with reports of them being used to fight fires in Augsburg in 1518. Boston had a hand-pump fire engine in 1654. It is not inconceivable that a vitrious super soaker, sans laughter, would not be the *most* odd-man-out element in a realist pre-Revolutionary France vampire fighting storyline.
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