The original mouse was carved from wood hollowed out to take a two-inch magnet bar of aluminium, nickel, and cobalt. It has two beady, button eyes, three small brass wheels for legs, and an pipe cleaner for a tail. Two copper whickers guide it through the maze to the "cheese" which is an electrical terminal that rings a bell when toughed by the whickers.
This is primarily somewhere for me, David Chapman (Twitter: @dachapman), to keep notes about information issues. Nothing here is complete (everything is provisional!). All I'm doing is flagging leads that I want to follow up at a later date.
And then of course there's the odd post that's off-topic, but that I want to say to the world.
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The original mouse was carved from wood hollowed out to take a two-inch magnet bar of aluminium, nickel, and cobalt. It has two beady, button eyes, three small brass wheels for legs, and an pipe cleaner for a tail. Two copper whickers guide it through the maze to the "cheese" which is an electrical terminal that rings a bell when toughed by the whickers.
That sounds nice! There's something very satisfying about old brass-and-wood electrical equipment.
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