STEEL BARREL TESTED IN 200-FOOT DROP (Nov, 1933)
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1933
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It would really suck if someone picked that moment to walk out to their car.
“Never did know my Paw, he got killed by an indestructible barrel. I like to think he died in the name of science.”
STEEL BARREL TESTED IN 200-FOOT DROP
An eighteen-story plunge in Detroit, Mich., recently tested the strength of a new-type beer barrel. Made of steel, the barrel was filled with water and carried to the eighteenth floor of a hotel. Here it was dropped from a window, plunging more than 200 feet to a hard-packed gravel parking space at the rear of the building. The barrel is said to have survived the shock without springing a leak, although the side was badly dented. In a second test, another barrel was not even dented by the long drop, according to the manufacturer.
Nice to know that the beer was safer than your car.
Comment by Bob — June 26, 2008 @ 5:20 am
Ahhh, brings back memories of high school, dropping the keg out the window when the cops show up.
Comment by Landtat — June 26, 2008 @ 8:50 am
This article appeared in 1933, the year the US repealed Prohibition.
Perhaps they figured by making it indestructible we’d never again see law-enforcement personnel destroying barrels with axes.
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Comment by Rick Auricchio — June 26, 2008 @ 5:57 pm
i wouldnt have wanted to be one of those guys on the ground when that bugger was dropped!
Comment by Adrian — June 27, 2008 @ 9:08 am
Oh, look, another product for Acme! I think Wile E. got an indestructible iron ball once…
Comment by David Moisan — June 28, 2008 @ 1:30 pm
A product of Kramerica Industries, I believe?
Comment by JakeofAllTrades — June 29, 2008 @ 3:43 pm