The overall aim of this research is to explore the impact of design parameters to. material flow efficiency in terms of space and time (labor or person-hours) utilization. Central to this research is the need to answer the question, what are the key design.
Salt potatoes originated in Syracuse and once comprised the bulk of a salt worker's daily diet. During the 1800s, Irish salt miners would bring a bag of small, unpeeled, substandard potatoes to work each day. Come lunch time, they boiled the potatoes in the free-flowing salt brine.
Word Origin and History for saltpeter Expand. n. potassium nitrate, c.1500, earlier salpetre (early 14c.), from Old French salpetre, from Medieval Latin sal petrae salt of rock, from Latin sal salt (see salt (n.)) + petra rock, stone (see petrous). So called because it looks like salt encrusted on rock.