1st 1903 Acquisition

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Remember, not all receivers were bad. In fact there may have been far fewer embrittled receivers than good ones.

Now here is something fun and interesting you retired gents with more time on your hands can do...let's find some weather data from the months of production before they put the new sensors in the furnace. Count up the overcast/cloudy days to get an estimate on the percentage of possible defective receivers. Hatcher clearly states in his book (will find the page number if I can find my copy) the heat treat was poor on cloudy days when the furnace workers let them get too hot when judging the temp only by eyeballs. If someone can source the data set (lots of antique weather observations have been digitized - unless it was too hot back then and they have been purged as a result), I'll volunteer to write a parser for it and try to compute a real estimate.