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"My father was a master mechanic; I grew up with a screwdriver in one hand and a pair of pliers in the other."
- Frank Herbert
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| Building With Lunar Materials | ||
| Using a planet's materials to make what you need. |
| I will try to make some photo-cells with Moore's aid...
A considerable pile of gypsum has been hauled from the mine, and Reed has made a larger oven for use when the sun appears again. He found some large blocks of pumice rock, and has set these up as insulators for his furnace. Moore and I have started work on the photo-cells. The silver was refined electrolytically, after we reduced it to a soluble compound. We made a crude , small cell and were delighted - and, I admit, somewhat surprised - to find it worked. |
| Technovelgy from The Moon is Hell,
by John W. Campbell. Published by Fantasy Press in 1950 Additional resources -
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