MYSTERY OBJECTS

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Navigation at night?
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No not that Tizer.
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I’ll come clean in the morning if no one gets it before.
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Calculating the days between the full moon?
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It’s part of a large machine which used all the technological data incorporating the effect of the moon and other planetary information, but on what?
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Tides?
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Well done Kev.
It’s the Tide Prediction Machine constructed at Bidston. By the Second World War it had become a vital factor in planning seaboard landings
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Woohoo!
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That was a good one! Now try this.... what is it?

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Is it a caulking tool?
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Well done Gloria, specifically for driving in the finely divided lead wool that was the seal in old cast iron pipes.
Now we need another object!
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This lubricator has a name. What is it? Clue, it's the manufacturer that made it.
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No takers?
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