c/historyart · by PugJesus@piefed.social · 106dThe creation of "Sherman's Neckties", railroad rails rendered unrecoverable by bending them around tree trunks, US Civil War 67 points · 5 comments · view on lemmy.world
5 Comments
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 10 pts · 105d
Oh... my goodness gracious.
I remember learning about such stuff, like 10Kyrs ago.
Sweet heaven abides...
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 105d
Rails used to be a whole lot softer back then I guess
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 105d
My (uneducated) guess is that they'd heat up the middle sections a bit to make them more malleable
PugJesus@piefed.social · 5 pts · 105d
Correct!
derry@midwest.social · 3 pts · 105d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman%27s_neckties.