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This is one of the iconic pictures of Melbourne... taken inside Melbourne Central. There was a tower here which could not be destroyed due to historical reasons : and so the architects had to design a cone to fit around it.

If I remember correctly this tower was used to produce bullets. Uh. Something like dropping molten lead from the top of the tower, while falling through the air the lead would form into perfect spheres (surface tension?) and cool, then drop into a tub of water at the bottom where they would solidify. Pretty ingenius idea : how else would you mass produce bullets in the late 1800s...

3 comments:

Ash said...

haha. now that is one really wicked idea.

Anonymous said...

...and another question asked in interviews in accenture:

how do they make m&m's round and smooth?

Xany said...

Ooh ooh! I actually know the answer to that one. :P