Originally Posted by MoAlpha

We had steam heat and a coal furnace in the ancestral country house with an electrical automatic stoker and ash handling system. It was a real mechanical wonder with a screw drive to move the material and a rotating platter where the fresh coal came up in the middle and the ash was pushed off the edge.

Originally Posted by indyfabz

This morning a guy brought his bike into our new (to us) office building and took it up on the elevator. That's good news.