Vintage work crew photos

**Toolmaker51** · Mar 14, 2021, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by IntheGroove

They just asked her how to make a Rosewater Rickey...

Well, of course. It doesn't populate automatically in a google search!

**IntheGroove** · Mar 14, 2021, 06:28 PM

I'm pretty sure you need a chemist to make a Rosewater Rickey...

**marksbug** · Mar 15, 2021, 09:52 AM

" so do we saute the onions or caramelize them? or just reduce them?" hold on Im reading!!! "cooking class for the clueless."

**DIYSwede** · Mar 15, 2021, 03:24 PM

Sorry for interrupting all the fun here:
This lab wasn't all-female just for being exceptionally progressive, offering "equal opportunities for ladies" -
there was a big, bloody war going on right then.

"WWI Brunner Mond modified several of their plants in order to produce ammonium nitrate for munitions.
As well as purifying TNT for government use, the firm provided synthetic phenol for conversion to the alternative explosive, picric acid."

From: https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Brunner,_Mond_and_Co

**bruce.desertrat** · Mar 16, 2021, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by DIYSwede

Sorry for interrupting all the fun here:
This lab wasn't all-female just for being exceptionally progressive, offering "equal opportunities for ladies" -
there was a big, bloody war going on right then.

"WWI Brunner Mond modified several of their plants in order to produce ammonium nitrate for munitions.
As well as purifying TNT for government use, the firm provided synthetic phenol for conversion to the alternative explosive, picric acid."

From: https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Brunner,_Mond_and_Co

Oh what fun! Not a place I'd like to work!

(Once upon a time, long ago I was helping to clear out and clean up a long-time toxicology professor's lab a few years after he'd retired, and in one of the chemical cabinets we came across a large glass jar of picric acid that over the years had picked up moisture and recrystallized all over the inside of the jar and up around the lid.

We evacuated the building and called in the bomb squad for that one! There was probably 1-1.5 kilos of it in the jar. )

**mcthistle007** · Mar 17, 2021, 12:48 AM

Hello bruce.desertrat, They certainly would've been Very Serious & Brain Squirming Times Indeed,not like looking @ your smartphone to see if the battery was getting low or if you had a message from Shakespeare. Tell us what could have happenned with that jar of "PICRIC ACID" if things went Pear shaped? Those pictures maybe tell more than a Thousand words.Makes me laugh when I compare the different times and what people "HAD" to go thru with not much choice! Will the pendulum swing the other way,one day?This website is The Best Value ever!

**Philip Davies** · Mar 17, 2021, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by bruce.desertrat

Oh what fun! Not a place I'd like to work!

(Once upon a time, long ago I was helping to clear out and clean up a long-time toxicology professor's lab a few years after he'd retired, and in one of the chemical cabinets we came across a large glass jar of picric acid that over the years had picked up moisture and recrystallized all over the inside of the jar and up around the lid.

We evacuated the building and called in the bomb squad for that one! There was probably 1-1.5 kilos of it in the jar. )

Just as well that you recognised the hazard! How many general clearance workers would?