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>>Every sailing ship had to have cannons for protection. >>Cannons of the times required round iron cannonballs >>The master wanted to store the cannonballs such that >>they could be of instant use when needed, yet not roll >>around on the deck. >> >>The solution was to stack them up in a square-based >>pyramid next to the cannon. The top level of the stack >>had one ball, the next level down had four, the next >>had nine, the next had sixteen, and so on. Four levels >>would provide a stack of 30 cannonballs. The only real >>problem was how to keep the bottom level from sliding >>out from under the weight of the >>higher levels. To do this, they devised a small brass >>plate (Brass Monkey) with one rounded indentation for >>each cannonball in the bottom layer. >> >>Brass was used because the cannonballs wouldn't rust >>to the "Brass Monkey," but would rust to an iron one. >>When temperature falls, brass contracts in size faster >>than iron. As it got cold on the gun decks, the >>indentations in the brass monkey would get smaller >>than the iron cannonballs they were holding. If the >>temperature got cold enough, the >>bottom layer would pop out of the indentations >>spilling the entire pyramid over the deck. Thus is >>was, quite literally, "Cold enough to freeze the balls >>off a brass monkey." >> >>Nancy
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