Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page141 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n revolutionary that nobody would even dare think about attacking us again.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYes mate! Right now I rather have a chat with Genghis Khan and get my bow and arrow problem sorted. What did he do?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe short bow!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re joking! That\u2019s been tried, long bows scaled down to short bows, and they just don\u2019t work. Either they have no power, or they\u2019re too inflexible to draw properly.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBetter known as the Mongol bow,\u201d says Haywire, \u201cand suitable for use on horseback. The Garrison has some already, but you were on a merchant navy ship. Anyway, making a composite bow like the Mongol bow takes months not days. And you need to bond wood with bone. That\u2019s tricky, especially with the bones we get from sheep, or goats, or deer.\u201d<\/p>\n HayWire finished school two years ago, and is on the verge of completing his two year probation at Harrison Time Pieces<\/em>. The probation will determine if he completes the standard five year apprenticeship track as a regular watchmaker, or follows the Harrison Research Institute track to a Dipl\u00f4me Sup\u00e9rieur<\/em>. That\u2019s something that only 5% of the workforce achieves. It\u2019s worth aiming for, because only the best engineers get to work on precision instrument design for the medical service, the ship builders, and the power companies.<\/p>\n At eighteen years old HayWire is two years younger than MaxChaos, but he\u2019s a savant when it comes to engineering. He loves to talk about making things, but he talks about very little else. Social interaction doesn\u2019t come easy to him, though he does get along well with NutJob, and with MaxChaos.<\/p>\n Fascinated by materials in particular, HayWire is interested not only in making better watches and clocks, but in improving anything that\u2019s man made. From fountain pens to wind turbines! And he loves experimenting, mainly by substituting new materials in the unlikeliest of ways. He spends hours in his workshop even when he\u2019s not working, trying out his bizarre new inventions.<\/p>\n Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page141 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous – Book1 Page141 \u2013 Next revolutionary that nobody would even dare think about attacking us again.\u201d \u201cYes mate! Right now I rather have a chat with Genghis Khan and get my bow and arrow problem sorted. What did he do?\u201d \u201cThe short bow!\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re joking! That\u2019s been tried, long bows scaled down to short … Continue reading “Chapter 18 The Bathtub Regatta141”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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