¶ Hammerthrow (1)
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Hammerthrow: (Peashooter & Deflection - 1):
"I am going to have a picture of a hammer thrower and we are going to give him a hammer and start it spinning. Before we start him spinning I am going to put a very large belt around his waist here. He is able to shove off with his feet all right and keep moving around here but his waist is so tightly held in this belt that he can’t lean over and I have a great many hooks on this belt. And we give him another one. And we gradually give him one hammer after another and he gets them all accelerating and it is finally like a grass skirt with all these balls out here. He can’t stop himself. The angular acceleration is very, very great like a fly wheel and the poor man will be very uncomfortable, so we put a roller bearing stand under his feet and have another roller bearing stand above it and we clamp it down on his head and his belt is so stiff that he can’t bend. He can just stand on these two and he is just whirling around like a merry-go-round. We gave him so many of these hammers that they are touching one another, they are tangent to each other so in effect he has a kind of solid ring around him. He is spinning so successfully that we can forget about him and now e come to another man who has a pea shooter. He is not on the olympic team because we don’t have any pea shooting but peas are nice to deal in
