@wellerstein In an engineering context, the word means essentially is the same thing as "valve." It is a very old sense of the word.
The time that the Manhattan Project ordered "11,900 brass cocks" from Chicago. Oh my.pic.twitter.com/2YdpW62Py9
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@wellerstein that would be for centrifuges, then? -
@alanrew No clue what they were using it for — they had a lot of valve needs at Oak Ridge.
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@wellerstein Pre-grad school I had a job where I once had to do a find/replace to change "cock" to "valve" over 10,000 pages of documents.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@wellerstein It involved doing page layout for NYC subway trains, and the suits in NYC nixed the archaic use of the word. - End of conversation
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@wellerstein RE Manhattan Project cocks…were those for the B reactor? Loads of brass fittings in the control room: tube pressure monitors.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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