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Post by Leatherhead on Jan 4, 2007 1:42:34 GMT
I apologize if this has alreadt been asked, but what does an old 19th century water boiler look like?
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Jan 4, 2007 12:01:17 GMT
 Not exactly late Victorian, but you will get a rough idea |
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Post by Thunder Child on Jan 6, 2007 2:39:57 GMT
"Boilers on stilts, I tell you, striding along like men." Taking that literally, you get something like this:  |
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Post by Leatherhead on Jan 7, 2007 1:54:26 GMT
ah thanks
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Post by Lensman on Jan 9, 2007 14:41:53 GMT
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Reppu
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heatraying the crap out of mankind?cooollllaaaa!
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Post by Reppu on Jan 11, 2007 10:50:14 GMT
In my copy of the book (which was borrowed to someone and sadly lost) there were some drawings, showing something quite similar to what Horsell_Common posted. imagine that with three legs and a bunch of tentacles coming out of the rounded hatch. I think that would be pretty true to the description in the book.
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Post by the Donal on Jan 11, 2007 11:23:10 GMT
Not exactly late Victorian, but you will get a rough idea Who's face is that in the hatch?!  "Ogilvy thought there was a man inside, trying to escape" |
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Jan 11, 2007 11:28:38 GMT
"Fhewwwwwwwwwwwww, sorry luv, can't let the man out, not got the parts on me van"
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Post by Poyks on Jan 11, 2007 11:40:04 GMT
Remember the original boiler on stilts?  ;D  |
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Post by David Faltskog on Jan 11, 2007 12:10:13 GMT
 ;D Laugh my freekin ass off!! D.F.
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Post by the Donal on Jan 11, 2007 12:30:59 GMT
;D
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Post by Lensman on Jan 14, 2007 16:47:13 GMT
At one point the tripods are indeed described as a "boiler on stilts", but keep in mind they're also described as "spider-like". The descriptions are both vague and somewhat contradictory; I think this was an attempt by Wells to show someone trying to describe something completely out of their experience. An example of that is in their first encounters with Europeans, the Amerinds (American aborigines) sometimes described sailing ships as "great white-winged birds".
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Post by deadsword on Jan 24, 2007 23:05:53 GMT
At one point the tripods are indeed described as a "boiler on stilts", but keep in mind they're also described as "spider-like". The descriptions are both vague and somewhat contradictory; I think this was an attempt by Wells to show someone trying to describe something completely out of their experience. An example of that is in their first encounters with Europeans, the Amerinds (American aborigines) sometimes described sailing ships as "great white-winged birds". Or like Ezekials Wheels in the holy bible. Maybe what Ezekiel witnessed was a spacecraft. There is actually a book on that and i got it somewhere. |
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;D Laugh my freekin ass off!!