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What I consider to be one of the most important household inventions is the whistle in my tea pot. This one works well and is very loud, which was a bit of a problem at 10:30 last night while I was trying to set this up. Was going to go mono but the red glow was getting lost.
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The transition from manual to automatic connection in domestic telephone traffic is completed in 1972.
Jay Maisel talked a lot about having fun with photography. If we are not enjoying it why are we doing it? He also encouraged creativity and invention, seeing the same old thing in a completely new way. He said "focus on not being focused, let go!" He suggested that we daydream, doodle, and play. It was quite fun and invigorating to go out shooting with this mindset.
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Eduardo Paolozzi's "Head of Invention" outside the Design Museum, London
a Jazz fan
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Irvine Harbour in Ayrshire
The now Spliced pedestrian footbridge crosses the River Irvine in Ayrshire and at one time served the Big Idea Dome of Scottish Invention which was built on the reclaimed ICI Noble site at Ardeer.
From the beginning the visitor attraction dome failed to inspire the public and finally close down in 2003 citing a large financial loss. The so-called Bridge of Scottish Invention was closed to the public in 2005 but still giving access to vessels into the sleepy harbour
There was much talk of building a golf course in the area and utilising the Dome as the Clubhouse but nothing has came into fruition.
Frank Zappa's First Three Albums with The Mothers Of Invention on CD
'Freak Out'
'Absolutely Free'
'We're Only In It For The Money'
Released on The Ryco Label as a 3-CD Box Set in 2002
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The theme of the week in the 365 Group is "Invention". How has the invention of photography & cameras changed our lives? I've owned at least 25 cameras in my life, and here's a small selection of the ones that are still hanging around the house.
I love the happy, surprised "face" of the Brownie Box camera :) We inherited that one from my mother-in-law. Simplest camera ever made !
This is the outtake for my daily picture and the theme 'Invention'.
Today we had no chance to go outside, because of the bad weather, so we played Monopoly and had cookies - fine day!
This game was invented by Parker Games in 1934.
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I Merged Two kind of Flower her the Purple flower name is Gomphrena globosa and the other one the pink flower is Adenium
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That's invention of tradition! There were never a Juliet's house or Juliet's balcony in Juliet's backyard before someone invented that just next to the main pedestrian street in Verona, Italy.
Before sewing machines were invented women spent much of their time maintaining their family's clothing. Middle-class housewives, even with the aid of a hired seamstress, would devote several days of each month to this task. It took an experienced seamstress at least 14 hours to make a dress shirt for a man; a woman's dress took 10 hours; and a pair of summer pants took nearly three hours. Most individuals would have only two sets of clothing: a work outfit and a Sunday outfit.In 1790, the English inventor Thomas Saint invented the first sewing machine design. His machine was meant to be used on leather and canvas material. The first practical and widely used sewing machine was invented by Barthélemy Thimonnier, a French tailor, in 1829. The first American lockstitch sewing machine was invented by Walter Hunt in 1832. His machine used an eye-pointed needle (with the eye and the point on the same end) carrying the upper thread and a falling shuttle carrying the lower thread.
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no not a storm in a tea cup.. but a watering can that creates its own water through a self contained storm inside...
Saving water for the gardeners of the future..
:P
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Aggie Ring loves a good "selfie!"
I could tell that Aggie Ring was impressed. After several moments of silence he spoke out and said, “If my Eyes of Texas aren’t deceiving me, that’s the biggest damn lightbulb I’ve ever seen! I guess it’s true… Everything IS bigger in Jersey!”
The Aggie Ring woke me up early this morning. In fact it was even before 11:30 a.m. so I knew he wanted to do something. I asked the Aggie Ring, “What do you want to do Aggie Ring?” The Aggie Ring replied, “I want to go see the lightbulb!” I wasn’t sure what he was talking about so I said, “What lightbulb?” The Aggie Ring said with emphasis, “Let there be LIGHT!” Then it hit me. Aggie Ring wanted to drive him up the Parkway to the site of Thomas A. Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory so he could see the Art Deco Edison Memorial Tower and “Big Ass Lightbulb!”
Other than the time he told me that he thought Elvis took our change in a tollbooth on the New Jersey State Turnpike, Aggie Ring has great ideas. It’s only about a 20 to 25 minute drive up the Parkway from our house so Aggie Ring and I set off to see the Edison Memorial Tower. The last time we’d been there it had been in horrible shape and they were beginning work on restoring it. That was a bit over a year ago so I assumed that Aggie Ring figured out that they would be finished with the conservation work on the historical site.
When we drove down the little side street where the tower is located the Aggie Ring was overwhelmed with awe at the restored site. Aggie Ring was truly “speechless!” It’s just as beautiful as the day it was built. They did an incredible job on the restoration. After a few moments sitting in the car just looking out the window Aggie Ring broke his silence and asked me, “Did you bring a cigar? Edison loved his cigars and I think he’d have wanted you to smoke a cigar while you’re looking the place over.” Unfortunately I had left my cigars at home so the Edison “smoke out” will have to happen on a future date.
The laboratory building is no longer at this site but it’s still impressive to think of not only the electric lightbulb, but all of the other great inventions that Mr. Edison invented here. Aggie Ring said, “Imagine. He did all this stuff without the help of an Aggie Ring!”
The Aggie Ring and I walked around the tower and took some photos of the “Big Ass Lightbulb” and the historical plaques at its base. The Aggie Ring and I are planning on going back some evening when the lightbulb is illuminated. Aggie Ring said, “It would be cool if you could get a photo during a thunderstorm when there’s lightning behind the tower.” I told Aggie Ring, “You’re crazy! I’m not standing out in a field during a lightning storm with an Aggie Ring on my finger! Maybe if we can get a VMI grad to come with us. Their rings are so damn big a lightning bolt would hit one of them before us!”
Aggie Ring said, “It’s a good thing Edison invented the lightbulb or there’d be a lot of Waggies drinking their tequila shots by candlelight!” I told the Aggie Ring, “True… Those Waggies love their tequila the invention of the lightbulb makes it a lot easier for them to pour the tequila and do body shots!”
Aggie Ring asked me to provide some info on the Edison “Big Ass Lightbulb” Memorial Tower for your educational enlightenment (“Get it?” Aggie Ring said):
Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Menlo Park Museum, New Jersey
"Let there be light." Thomas Alva Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory and Memorial Tower. Those of us on the Jersey Shore call it the "Big Ass Lightbulb!”
The Edison Tower, located on the site of the original laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, to which Thomas Alva Edison moved in 1876, was erected in 1937 as a monument to the great inventor. The Tower is the gift of William Slocum Barstow to the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Incorporated in behalf of the Edison Pioneers. It was dedicated on February 11, 1838, the ninety-first anniversary of the inventor's birth.
Rising 131 ft. 4 in. above the ground, the tower looms as the highest discernible object for many miles. Surmounting the 117 ft. 8 in. concrete-slab structure is a 13 ft. 8 in. replica of the original incandescent lamp which, when illuminated, can be seen for a distance of several miles. It once served as an airplane beacon. The Tower is designed for pressure of wind at a velocity of 120 miles per hour. In its construction, which consumed slightly less than eight months, approximately 1200 barrels of Edison Portland cement and 50 tons of reinforced steel were used.
The large bulb on top of the Tower was cast by the Corning Glass Works. The replica bulb contains 153 separate pieces of amber tinted Pyrex glass, 2 in. thick, set upon a steel frame. The bulb is 5 ft. in diameter at the neck and 9 ft. 2 in. in diameter at the greatest width and weighs, without the steel frame on which it is placed, in excess of three tons. Before the restoration, inside this Pyrex glass bulb were four 1000 watt bulbs, four 200 watt bulbs, and four 100 watt bulbs. A duplicate of each was arranged as automatically to cut in should its companion bulb fail.
The Edison Tower has been completely restored and when complete, the bulb is now illuminated with modern Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology. Mr. Edison would be pleased with this, I’m sure.
While we don’t have any records of exactly what was said when Mr. Edison perfected his invention, I suspect one of his workers shouted out something like this: “Holy Mother of Baby Jesus on a Donkey!” “Mr. Edison, You’ve done it!!! You’ve perfected the Electric Light!!! You truly are King of Kings!!!!”
The tower is located on a mysterious plot of land and exactly at midnight on the night of a full moon, it would be a perfect site for the ritual sacrifice of virgins. Too bad we don’t have any of those in New Jersey! :-)
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Aggie Ring says, “The Road Goes On Forever, and the Party Never Ends!”
Head of Invention by a Scottish sculptor and artist Eduardo Paolozzi, 1989.
Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art
The sculpture is installed in front of the Design Museum in London.
Inscription on the back of the sculpture:
"Though human genius in its various inventions with various instruments may answer the same end, it will never find an invention more beautiful or more simple or direct than nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing superfluous
Leonardo da Vinci.
London, 2017
I wanted Joel to have something to show the Mads. So...an Emo Ostrich. Because of reasons.
Crow's build was inspired by the work of SPARKART!. Some great MST3k work there!
Almost the end of the month! It has been slow at times but quick at others, and here we are at the end of the first month of 2013. Make any progress toward re-invention or renewal?
This was actually taken on the same day as an earlier one with the Rokinon 85mm, but I liked this color version as well.
Sven Franic, Kockice (Croatia)
Twentieth Century Music
The beginning of the 20th century brought music to the masses. With the invention of mass market gramophone records, reproduction of sound and radio broadcast, music was finally available to all social classes. Jazz and Blues were the first new-age genres to form entire cultures around them. These cultures carried a status of advanced lifestyle and rebellion, reaching its high point through Rock and Roll. Music became a profitable business and held the power to start revolutions and stop wars.
My creation tries to capture the era with what I thought would be recognizable images of the early times of the 20th century when music changed forever. It is not meant to represent any existing people or brands.
Macro shot of toy telephone gum dispenser!
An extract from Wikipedia: "The invention of the telephone is the culmination of work done by many individuals, the history of which involves a collection of claims and counterclaims. The development of the modern electrical telephone involved an array of lawsuits founded upon the patent claims of several individuals and numerous companies. This article covers the early years from 1844 to 1898, from conception of the idea of an electric voice-transmission device, to failed attempts to use "make-and-break" current, to successful experiments with electromagnetic telephones by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson, and finally to commercially successful telephones in the late 19th century."
Groups Weekly Theme: "Invention"
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