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  • withstanding in beast in a suburb of noting him outside the house, where one of my former colleagues, Colonel Beady Shaw, used to live.

  • He was very famous.

  • As a lecturer on explosives, he used to demonstrate the most hair raising experiments and in his owner, I'm wearing a special type you can see here.

  • This is the tie, which my colleague Jim Gamble burnt with white phosphorus, recreating one of be diesel's experiments.

  • We here now to put up a plaque in his memories so everybody who comes past the house will learn about be detour.

  • Blue plaques are a UK tradition.

  • When somebody dies, who's famous?

  • They put on their house a nice blue plaque, Wits says, who lives there in the dates on why they're famous.

  • And we're really fortunate that the civic society here has decided to wanna be d short.

  • So let's put up the plan really good.

  • Andi, I'm really impressed how carefully it's being put out.

  • I've never done such a good job, I know.

  • Tunnel the gas and remove the 10.

  • This goes more rapidly than this accelerates away down the tube from the burning of the first portion, generate calls an expansion.

  • This creates pressure on the remainder, and this also raises the temperature.

  • Anyone who's ever pumped up a bicycle tire knows that the pump gets warm.

  • I don't look like a clever man, explosive and chemist, and I would know, like before doing this, the volunteers with the fire extinguishers to step forward.

  • It's a big D soul kept some explosives here when he lived here, and when he died, the bomb squad had to come to clear their heads to make it safe.

  • But I visited it before he died.

  • I didn't realize there was explosives in the house.

  • I might have been more careful.

  • Lectures don't seem to have time to do experiments electric, and this is a great pity because it means that the students never seen experiments.

withstanding in beast in a suburb of noting him outside the house, where one of my former colleagues, Colonel Beady Shaw, used to live.

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