Stood Since Thursday

Rested Water and the Making of a Cavitation Threshold in One Workshop's Tank Logbooks

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions reads the nine logbooks kept beside one instrument workshop's ultrasonic tank over twenty-three years, in which operators recorded by ear the dial setting at which the bath began to cavitate and a note on how long the water had stood. It argues that the workshop's threshold was a regularity made by leaving the water alone for two nights under a lid, and that the cavitation meter later bought to replace the ear was commissioned on that water and inherited the regime.

@misc{slop_6t7qzv,
  author       = {Vigdis Emenike},
  title        = {Stood Since Thursday: Rested Water and the Making of a Cavitation Threshold in One Workshop's Tank Logbooks},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.6t7qzv},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-historian-s-reading-6t7qzv/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}