Raising Steam: (Discworld novel 40) (Discworld Novels)

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In Dec. of 2007, Pratchett disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. On 18 Feb, 2009, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. With the lights on shore power so we don’t have to use torches, the firemen are set to work in the required boiler rooms to lay fires in sufficient boilers to provide enough steam for the dynamos. Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man wi' t'flat cap and sliding rule who has an interesting arrangement with the sine and cosine. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs and some very angry dwarfs if he's going to stop it all going off the rails...

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Once lit, the dampers adjust the boiler draft and the fires start to heat the water in the fire-tube boilers. In modern ships, the 2nd Engineer takes the 4-8, the 3rd Engineer the 12-4 and the Chief Engineer the 8-12, though his watch is delegated by him to the 4th Engineer as it is within normal daylight hours. Structurally, this book felt odd to me. Some of the scenes felt more described or summarized rather than fully executed. Note that the marriage in question could also be allegorical of a same-sex relationship, what with the consensus in the community that it doesn't matter if they can't have children since they love each other and can always adopt. note Weirdly, it'd been stated outright in Maskerade that Nanny Ogg is part dwarf, so it was at least canon at one point that humans and dwarfs can interbreed on the Disc. Actionized Sequel: A disproportionate (for a Discworld novel) number of obstacles are overcome by the simple expediment of the assorted and assembled protagonists being really, really good in a fight - including previous Non Action Guys like Moist, Nobby or Colon.Here We Go Again!: At the very end of the book, a goblin shows his new invention to Vetinari, a pedal powered, two wheeled vehicle. Vetinari refers him to Mr Thunderbolt to secure a patent.

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When outing herself as female, Queen Rhys mentions Queen Ynci of Lancre. If anyone present knows Ynci never existed, they don't call her out on it. Finally, Pratchett continues his spoofing of Steampunk in the Devices, the pseudo Victorian language and affectations (“Sorry, sir, you ‘ave to let t’steam out. It’s all about ‘arnessing t’steam.”) and the imaging of the railways which he started in Thud! Popular References [ ] He's also no fool when questioned by the press, and frequently sidesteps any "gotcha" questions they try to throw at him No.1 Boiler Room, forward of the reciprocating engineroom houses the single ended boilers used for hotel services and auxiliary supplies in port. The double-ended boilers are fired for transatlantic passages up to full speed and primarily used for main propulsion. Pink Mist: The inevitable end of anyone caught in a boiler explosion. Superheated steam does this to a person.

A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: It's revealed that Ardent was once Albrecht Albrechtson's protege; Albrecht apparently taught Ardent everything he knows (though not everything Albrecht knows). However, even at his most ultraconservative, Albrecht was a committed dwarf patriot who was utterly loyal to King Rhys, even if they didn't agree on much (and he seems to have mellowed considerably by this book). Ardent, on the other hand, is a fanatical terrorist who will cheerfully murder anyone whose views differ from his own for being un-dwarfish, and intends to seize the Scone of Stone by force. The change being? Less and less dialogue, more painting of the scenery, More dutiful telling of the tale, less trapdoors that suddenly open under your feet as you try to follow the plot Pratchett is deliberately misspelling out for you. These ships carried 24 engineers, 6 electrical engineers, two boilermakers, a plumber and the Chief Engineer’s Writer (Clerk). For a complete listing and the duties of the engineers, see Titanic's engineering staff by Dr Denis Griffiths. Precision F-Strike: Amusingly averted, the map in the front of the book contains an Effing Forest which leads to some entertaining wood based puns later on.

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The towns of Zemphis and Ohulan Cutash are mentioned for the first time since Equal Rites, as is the Fiddler's Riddle, although it seems to have improved since Esk was there.The modern world is not easy, as the Low King (actually a queen, in another illustration of progress) realises. In deflecting the coup against her, she notes how bloodshed will be required to lance the boil: And I was underwhelmed by the solution for the weak bridge at the end. It only barely holds together, and surely wouldn't stand close examination. The world is changing and it needs its shepherds and sometimes its butchers. And in this case, I’m its shepherd. Your enterprise has been noted. And all that anyone can say now is: What next? What little thing will change the world because the little tinkers carried on tinkering?” The air pumps (called vacuum pumps these days) evacuate air and water from the condensers, with the air pumps extracting non-condensables and helping the vacuum in so doing. This improves the exhaust flow through the engines and also extracts the maximum energy from the steam. They are situated in the turbine room by the condensers and are of course steam driven. We start these in the usual way, and leave them to help draw a vacuum on the condensers (once steam from the main engines condenses}, usually around 28.5in with an atmospheric pressure of 30in. In modern day parlance these dual air-water pumps would be termed vacuum pumps and condensate pumps respectively.

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Confusion Fu: On the rare instances Moist is called on to fight he finds chaotic approaches seem to work, on the basis if he doesn't know what he will do next his opponent won't either. The invention of the steam engine takes Ankh-Morpork by storm. Everyo Simnel is the personification of progress, a modest master of steel and steam. Despite his dialogue occasionally veering into a Monty Python grim oop north stereotype, I enjoyed reading about his faith in locomotion and respect for what he was creating:

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Fuel oil treatment Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Gods Need Prayer Badly: It's not exactly prayer or belief, but the reverence and respect held by so many people for Iron Girder results in her becoming a goddess.