Re: Pieces of string too small to use. . .

[Allen Shotwell <rshotwel@ivy.tec.in.us>]

Don't know of any educational use, but they make great boat anchors.



At 07:55 AM 10/21/98 -0500, you wrote:
> There is a story in our community of someone finding among the personal
effects of a deceased sister a box labelled "pieces of string too small to
use."   The windows of our 110-year old house are being replaced, and I
have in true nunnish tradition, glommed onto 15 antique sash weights.  If
you were me, to what pedagogical use could you put these 1.5 inch diameter,
foot-long  hunks of iron?  
> Margaret J. Clarke, OSB
> Physics Department
> College of St. Scholastica
> Duluth MN 55811
> mclarke@css.edu
R. Allen Shotwell
Chair, Science and Math
Ivy Tech State College
Terre Haute, IN  USA