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code at UK for terms. As much as little Johnny Haig loved machinery and chemistry, he despised the zinc plaiter in the prison

workshop, as with a backlog of pan-to-plate, it was his pride at stake.

But as a small stoic man who never let his emotion sully his day,

With little more than a frown and a huff, he set about fixing the fault.

The usual suspect was the woefully inadequate in Letromagnetic Bell,

a laughably basic battery, easily a few decades beyond being obsolete, consisting

of a zinc electrode in a copper-lined bath of sulfuric acid.

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