[Elecraft] OT mercury

[Joe-aa4nn]

Not insane maybe, but 30 years tending a lighthouse, the light
and  intermittent fog horn never bothered the old man keeper,
until early one morning the fog horn failed to sound off... the old
man woke up with a start and wondered "What was that?"
de Joe, aa4nn

> awareness of lighthouse-related things and one of these is the
> legend that keepers sometimes went insane "from the isolation
> and loneliness of lighthouse duty".  It's now generally attributed
> to handling the mercury used ... in large quantities ... as a lubricant
> in some light rotation mechanisms.
>