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@Pizzatime2600 @regionalthicko Sort of, US system is directly derived from the widely used wine gallon, but the imperial gallon/pint is much closer to the ale gallon/pint, which is relevant in this context. Traditional pint of beer was always 578ml.

@regionalthicko After independence we kept the English system of measurements, but since then the US and UK standardized the measurements differently. US Customary system and UK has imperial system, both derived from the same 18th century English system. Ours is closer to the earlier system

Nice argument. Unfortunately I have already depicted you as the weak and feeble US pint and myself as the Chad imperial pint

@leo_caesaris With rail at least, a fair few European countries can do about as cheap or cheaper than France

By the way this is not necessarily the case. Many infrastructure projects around Europe are money sinkholes for relatively little results. French infrastructure projects are rather unique in Europe. Once something gets approved, red tape is steamrolled and decisions centralized

@PaperWhispers @StonedLoserLol @bat020 Onions are one of the best natural dietary sources of fructans, which is a type of fibre, but some people can be sensitive/intolerant to this type

@StonedLoserLol @bat020 The lack of fibre

I am always fascinated by people who can process this kind of food without wretching. My stomach is unsettled just by the picture

@MrNickFortune @mikeysmith Just scrolled through your Tweets and saw that you're also a creep and probably an incel. Blocked.

@MrNickFortune @mikeysmith I even clarified myself repeatedly and you just arrogantly charged on repeating an assertion I never made.

America, I love you dearly, but you need to sort your sockets out. Never once have I plugged something in in Britain and seen a spark.

@MrNickFortune @mikeysmith No, an induction coil, the first practical type of transformer.

@Chipzilla2k4 @mikeysmith A solenoid?

@MrNickFortune @mikeysmith Britain was behind in implementation due to more stringent regulations/politics. It's a fact that the work of UK based engineers like Gaulard and Gibbs was the direct catalyst for American pioneers like Westinghouse, who used and developed upon their patents and AC transformers.

But it’s not the only element. Developing the principle of a changing flux inducing a voltage is not even the only element that’s important for transformers. The UK didn’t do everything for commercial electricity and then just stumble, letting Americans steal everything to cross that line first.

@MrNickFortune @mikeysmith I felt the implication was clear that when I said invented key elements I was talking about high level initial inventions, as I gave two examples in which that was the case, it's not like I am denying any historical facts or timelines.

@MrNickFortune @mikeysmith Something is invented before it is physically made, and typically long before it is commercially viable. The transformer was a key element required for commercial electricity invented in the UK, regardless of whether it was made commercial practical in the UK, which it mostly was

@MrNickFortune @mikeysmith The iron core in the middle is open linear in the sense of being a straight cylinder, the toroid describe the arrangement of the coils around it.

@Chipzilla2k4 @mikeysmith How do you have a closed loop toroid with an open loop? Or in a linear orientation for that matter?

@MrNickFortune @mikeysmith Almost every development that happened between Faraday and practical AC power transmission, happened in the UK first, even if all the elements didn't come together as we know it today there.

@MrNickFortune @mikeysmith Even if you want to distort the definition of invention like that, Gaulard was working in the UK with Dixon-Gibbs when they designed the first AC transformers practical for power transmission, while the first public power source was slightly earlier in Surrey.

@MrNickFortune @mikeysmith A way to say that something is similar to a toroid. Or a ring donut. As opposed to the square core common of most modern large scale transformers.

@Chipzilla2k4 @mikeysmith And what does toroidal mean?

@MrNickFortune @mikeysmith I never said practical transformers first came from the UK though, I completely accept there's a difference between inventing the elements of something and engineering it into a viable commercial product.

@Chipzilla2k4 @mikeysmith I’ll say the UK assisted in transformer development. It’d be inappropriate to say practical transformers came from the UK, though.

@MrNickFortune @mikeysmith It's an induction coil that has an open linear core made of iron, rather than a closed iron loop or any later alternative core topologies, those were descriptors rather than part of the name.

@Chipzilla2k4 @mikeysmith There’s no such thing as a toroidal open linear iron core induction coil.

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@MrNickFortune @mikeysmith You said "I’m not sure the UK had anything to do with transformer development." And I'm saying that's not true, several of the key innovations, discoveries and developments that went into practical AC transformers came from the UK, even if not initially used for AC transformers.