The time that the Manhattan Project ordered "11,900 brass cocks" from Chicago. Oh my.pic.twitter.com/2YdpW62Py9
@wellerstein In an engineering context, the word means essentially is the same thing as "valve." It is a very old sense of the word.
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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 still in use in chemistry: "stopcock" is a part of a burette. -
@Canageek@wellerstein also used as a technical term in plumbing
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@wellerstein Man! The stuff you dig up!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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