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Jan. 28th, 2014 06:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyExcellent work story of the day:
While trying to find out about a Professor Beer in order to have some more meaningful metadata than just, y'know, 'professor beer', I ran across his predecessor as lecturer in Fuel Technologies. Professor Meredith Thring was a gentleman in the 1960's who was apparently so delighted at having wrangled funding for a new building out of the University that he celebrated by building a robot.
Named 'Felix the Firefighter', this robot was designed to head for the nearest source of heat and get extinguishing. Unfortunately, when it was revealed at the opening of the new building, the enthusiastic robot headed for the greatest source of heat, which was the sun. The Duke of Edinburgh, there to open the building, had to be pulled out of the way so as not to get extinguished.
Apparently Thring and Beer were frequently to be found in concrete bunkers due to their unfortunate habit of exploding things with great prejudice.
While trying to find out about a Professor Beer in order to have some more meaningful metadata than just, y'know, 'professor beer', I ran across his predecessor as lecturer in Fuel Technologies. Professor Meredith Thring was a gentleman in the 1960's who was apparently so delighted at having wrangled funding for a new building out of the University that he celebrated by building a robot.
Named 'Felix the Firefighter', this robot was designed to head for the nearest source of heat and get extinguishing. Unfortunately, when it was revealed at the opening of the new building, the enthusiastic robot headed for the greatest source of heat, which was the sun. The Duke of Edinburgh, there to open the building, had to be pulled out of the way so as not to get extinguished.
Apparently Thring and Beer were frequently to be found in concrete bunkers due to their unfortunate habit of exploding things with great prejudice.
