Did you know that telephone poles come from ship masts.
Not many people know this. It is very surprising to me
Next time you are walking down the street look at the telephone poles that you see. I do not know if you have ever seen a tall ship’s masts but they look pretty similar…
Look at those poles compared to a standard telephone pole…
I do not think that I have to spell this out for you do I… It is pretty obvious
In Amsterdam they do this thing called SAIL Amsterdam about every 5 years, all the remaining tall ships meet there. (they don’t force them to go so I guess not all)
That is clearly more than enough wooden poles to produce the image of the telephone lines… AND EVERY CITY LOOKED LIKE THAT PICTURE ALL THE TIME…
WHERE DO YOU THINK THEY WENT…
Some people online say that the masts were turned into log cabins… Give me a break.
If you are still not convinced I will show you a very famous paintin
This is called The Fighting Temeraire painted by JMW Turner in 1839. It shows the great Temeraire the greatest ship in the British navy being taken to a scrapyard to be demolished for wood… I saw in a video that the ship alone used 6,000 trees. I know earlier I was saying that the masts were the ones for telephones poles, but it is probably the whole ship. This painting is very famous because it came out near the camera. (painting in England, google says that the camera is from Paris…) Mr Turner was so sad about the ship being destroyed because he knew that as soon as they turned it into powerlines and stopped doing war or whatever, he would spend all his day using electricity and he never would have become such a good painter.
Don’t believe me?
Look at Turner’s paintings after the Temeraire…
Do not get in the comments and lecture me about abstraction and Turner being a pioneer and the loose beauty of his watercolours… Where did you learn about that???
On you’re phone? In a University? at a musuem? Did you get told this under candle light? NO you didn’t it was in electric light… So where do you think that came from!
Thank you for making it this far!