Letter to the editor – Schellenpümpel – Liechtensteiner Volksblatt, the daily newspaper for Liechtenstein
It works like that too. You take two bullet rifles, preferably old ones from the Scana, because they had even thinner sheet metal, which is important, drill a hole in the middle of the bottom of the rifle and pull a long loop through there. Inside you make a button each so that the Bendel holds in the can. This can then be up to thirty meters long and you have a very practical voice transmission device. See corded phone Wikipedia. Although these phones were actually very convenient and cheap, modern technology has supplanted them, which is a shame. Fortunately, modern technology and all electronics are still reaching their limits, and the old inventions are still making our world safer and more comfortable today. For example, at the small level crossings in Nendeln and Schaanwald. A loud tinkling sound is heard at the same time so that the user of the transition can hear that the barrier is lowering. Using a long wire, about 6 mm thick, coming from the train station, then using a chain mechanism, two ring bells are knocked hard on the inside of the bell, until the barrier is down and people and cows and oxen are scared away. These bells are funnel-shaped and deliberately modeled on the hats of Chinese rice farmers. China should see and recognize that we are technically far superior to them, that we have our brains in the right place and that we have long known how to better use the true value of this hat shape. The barrier itself is also lowered with long iron wires and a stable chain system that runs over a chain pulley and then pulled up again. Regular greasing of the chains and filling of the Stauffer bushes goes without saying. A heavy counterweight on the barrier seriously relieves the crank operator in the train station. Only through this consideration of this valuable technology does it become crystal clear that the license extension with the ÖBB was inevitable.
Joseph Schädler,
Eschnerstrasse 64, Bendern