Professor David Nutt believes that there is no reason why we can't make hangover-free alcohol, like Star Trek's synthehol.
Alcohol works in the brain mainly by latching onto signalling molecules called GABA-A receptors. There are dozens of subtypes of these; not all of them are associated with specific effects of alcohol. For example, memory loss may occur in conjuction with drinking because alcohol binds to alpha-5, a GABA-A receptor subtype in the hippocampus.
Professor Nutt suggests that if molecules that bind poorly to the bad subtypes like alpha-5 could be developed, it would be possible to retain the pleasant effects of alcohol without the bad side-effects.
iv`e never seen anything like it but i think you fill ii with hot water and use it to warm up an arthritic finger joint. but it was made in springfeild so who knows . ask homer.
Well, the little spiral thing is either, (a) to cool something in the contents or (b) to hold something. The flat bottom seems more indicative of something designed to be heated, rather than for stability. My guess is maybe there are two chambers inside this thing and it is a portable still of some kind, maybe to purify water?
Older version of our modern day equivalent of a candle lighter. Protruding area can be lit to provide reach into gaslight lamps and provide ease through not having to strike many matches to light several lamps around the house.
A vaporizer. A candle burning under the coil would heat the contents of the kettle to a simmer and fill the invalid's room with healthful eucalyptus and camphor fumes.
It's deceptive because it's upside-down. It's a funnel. It looks just like one used for canning, except it has that spiral loop - possibly used for distilling or simply to attach it to a stick for a pivot.
It's an old gas/alcohol/kerosene lamp. You pump the pressure up with the thing on the left, and there are small holes on the right for lighting the gas/liquid coming out.
It's to heat things up. You put the hot water in the hole, close the cap tightly, so the heat doesn't escape, and let the heat make its way though the coils to warm up something that is stuck in there, clothes-pin style.
Or it could be a dunce cap. Place it on the head, of the punished child (there's no bottom - it's hollow) an hang a paper from the coil, stating what the child did wrong.
I think Onyxium has it right. The coil resembles an immersion heater, and probably extends into the chamber. The lid certainly looks like old ink pot lids, with a flat stable bottom to avoid tipping.
Not a lamp, but a small alcohol fondue or chafing dish burner. You place alcohol inside the can, there is a wick to the coil which by the flame's heat generates pressure in the can and keeps the alcohol flowing through the small holes in the ring which perpetuates the cycle. It functions much the same as a vintage alcohol blow torch. Also similar are the new-fangled aluminum can stoves seen on many backpacking sites.
hmm, you know in the trenches in ww1, the soldiers made things out of whatever they could find. it sort or looks like a cancle holder/snuffer made out of whatever some soldier could find.
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A place to keep ink with a thing to lean a feather.
Or a Oil Lamp. I think it´s a Oil Lamp
but it was made in springfeild so who knows .
ask homer.
Or a distilling device, or part of it, working like an italian coffeepot.
I was thinking mosquito fogger, but his answer seems more appropriate to the times.
It looks just like one used for canning, except it has that spiral loop - possibly used for distilling or simply to attach it to a stick for a pivot.
Or it could be a dunce cap. Place it on the head, of the punished child (there's no bottom - it's hollow) an hang a paper from the coil, stating what the child did wrong.