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The Personal Air Freshener is just that, an air freshener that can be personalized with your name or unique phrase all while keeping your car smelling fresh! This invention is the brain child of our client, Curtis.
الكتاب الوحيد الذي اشتريته من مكتبة جرير اليوم، لدي عذري! فقد كنت أبحث عنه منذ وقت طويل ولم أجده إلا اليوم وكانت فرصة لا يجب أن تضيع.
In the "Financial Markets" Exhibit
Western Union Telegraph Co. Edison Universal stock ticker with glass dome, engraved "Electrical Industries NY" and "4000 Universal teiber 3-A, 22-OHMS"
993.1.21
One of hazel's inventions in the Craft Council Collection. 1990's. Inspired by net drying sheds at Hastings.
Head of Invention sculpture outside the Design Museum, Butlers Wharf, London by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi.
湘橋春漲水迢迢， 十八梭船鎖畫橋。 激石雪飛梁上鷺， 驚濤聲徹海門潮。 鴉洲漲起翻桃浪， 鱷渚煙深濯柳條。 一帶長虹三月好， 浮槎幾擬到層霄
Each pier of the Syantse Bridge has a history of hundreds of years.and the whole bridge was first built in the year 1171 in China’s Song Dynasty.It was built as a float bridge linked by 84 huge boat and bestride two banks of the immense River.Han at that time.
For the late hundreds of years,the reconstruction and decoration has not been stopped,.Till Ming Dynasty,it has become one of the most beautiful and famous bridges in China,and the bridge was made up with 24 piers with 24 different pavilions while in the middle part of the bridge there are 18 shuttle boats which can be separated during the flood time.This invention was praised as “The pioneer open-close type bridge in the world” by famous bridge expert Mao Yisheng.
this picture was taken this summer in the ancient city of Teochew (Chaozhou),show you the east part of the great Syantse Bridge.
An old character. She may be making an appearance in The Otherwalls, so I thought I'd sketch her. I've ended up experimenting with colours on her too, trying out a new technique.
Painter X over a sketch.
O baixista Roy Estrada, membro original do Mothers Of Invention --banda de Frank Zappa nos anos 70 e 80--, toca em show do Grande Mothers Re:Invented, em São Paulo. Mais fotos - UOL - musica.uol.com.br/album/thegrandemothers_sp_2010_album.jh...
WIPO Director General Francis Gurry speaks at the launch ceremony of the Inventor Assistance Program, which was held on October 17, 2016 at the WIPO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
Through the Inventor Assistance Program, patent attorneys provide pro bono help to inventors in developing countries who want to file a patent for their invention but lack the means to do so.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
For the first time, the University of Illinois Springfield hosted Camp Invention, a national summer enrichment day camp program for first through sixth graders designed to foster innovation and creativity while also building self-esteem, teamwork, persistence, and goal-setting skills.
Disneyland Paris.
June 2014.
Visit our website for loads of Disney Character pictures and information!
playing around w/ Google Nik Collection.
Silver Efex Pro w/ filter Antique Plate 2 (alte Fotoplatte 2).
btw SW is for free now.
Um... no, I have no idea what this is.
I found it Son's room. I believe Hubby gave it to Son a Christmas or two ago. Both are Mechanical Engineers.
As neither is around at the moment, and I really need to get this uploaded, you'll have to wait to find out what it is.
Unless you already know, then by all means share!
2020 Weekly Alphabet Challenge - I is for Invention
I'm sure somebody was really proud inventing... whatever-this-is!
ODC-Inventions, Wed 24.04.13.
Magnetic Polarized lens. A great invention for my Cannon PowerShot. It comes with a magnetic ring that you attach to the front of the camera (there is no interference with the zoom movement), then this little lens can be quickly snapped on and off as needed.
At Piccadilly Circus in London.
The main feature here is the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain aka Eros.
TQ 2980 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PICCADILLY CIRCUS, Wl
71/73
Shaftesbury Memorial
Fountain "Eros"
24.2.58
GV I
Memorial Fountain. 1892-93 by Alfred Gilbert commemorating the philanthropist
Lord Shaftesbury. Bronze octagonal fountain on stepped platform surmounted by
winged archer in aluminium representing the Angel of Christian Charity but always
popularly identified as Eros. The sculpture of the fountain itself is of remark-
able naturalistic proto-Art Nouveau invention, hence Pevsner's quotation "fishes
of all kinds, and every class of molluscous and crustacean life, the crab, the
lobster and such like".
Survey of London; Vol XIX.
London Volume 1 N Pevsner
Grade I listed.
Was a protest going through Piccadilly Circus during the day time, so we headed down to the Underground to get away from here (and on to the Sherlock Holmes Museum).
Some kind of African thing. One thing said "Kabila must go"
We got the Bakerloo line to Baker Street.
Building behind is The Sting.
Grade II listed building.
TQ 2980 NW & NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER REGENT STREET, W1
70/86 ; 71/2 (West side)
30.5.72 Nos. 49 to 63 odd.
The Quadrant
(including Nos. 9 to
18 consec. Piccadilly)
G.V. II
Quadrant of offices and shops and stores. Part of the south western half
of Sir Reginald Blomfield's grandiose rebuilding of Nash's Quadrant,
designed from c.1910 taking Norman Shaw's neo-Baroque set piece of the
quadrant elevation of his Piccadilly Hotel (Piccadilly q.v.) as key and
scale and completed 1920-23. Stone-faced, slate roofs. Podium embracing
ground floor and mezzanine, 3 storeys above and dormered steep mansard.
The podium has bold pulvinated rustication to its articulated piers, ashlar
upper floors with windows in flat surrounds; rich modillion eaves cornice,
continuous range of dormers in roof which has bronze ridge cresting;
prominent banded and corniced stone stacks. The penetration of Air Street
is marked by a rusticated semicircular arched bridge with open giant 3
storey Doric columned loggia over, a la Somerset House. The Quadrant
composition is terminated by slightly advanced pavilions with concave
pyramidal cupola roofs. The eastern end of the Quadrant includes the
former Swan and Edgar's store (Nos. 9 to 18 Piccadilly) in which Blomfield
develops the pavilion design towards Piccadilly Circus with 3 bays and a 9
bay return to Piccadilly. To the Circus, a pulvinated and channelled
podium with an arcade embracing ground floor and mezzanine, above which are
3 storeys read as 1 ½ with tall, through storey, segment headed and hooded
windows, ashlar faced with giant rusticated pilaster strips. Rich
modillion cornice and attic storey with swags and festoons; close set
dormers. The first return bay to Piccadilly is similarly treated. Beyond,
the 8 bay composition differs in the treatment of podium and attic; the end
bays are slightly advanced as pavilions with elevations similar to those
facing the Circus and the Quadrant terminal pavilions, crowned with the
same concave cupola roofs.
this kid may not have been into it, but conveyor belt sushi just might be my favorite restaurant invention. the sushi isnt exactly gourmet quality, but the endless parade of it makes me giddy. plus you press a button for green tea. how rad is that?
Built 1879 as 3 shops for William Kither, architect Rowland Rees, replacing earlier premises on site. One shop was Kither’s butcher shop and the remaining two were occupied by various businesses, including dining rooms, fancy goods, confectioner, tailor, etc.
William Kither arrived in SA 1855 with his parents & siblings. He first worked for a draper before becoming an apprentice butcher. Later he encouraged his father to purchase the butcher shop. After his father’s death 1869 William with his mother Sarah ran the business as “S Kither & Son” until her death in 1875 when it was known as “W Kither”. He was the first to install refrigeration in 1884. After William’s death the business was carried on by his son Clarence Maturin Kither. The building was sold 1932 when Kither’s moved to King William Street.
Re-opened as Clarkson Ltd showrooms 5 Dec 1932, with architects Woods, Bagot, Laybourne-Smith & Irwin making the transformation, building purchased by Commonwealth Bank 1958, Clarksons leadlight & stained glass department closed 1960.
This building originally had the date MDCCCLXXX (ie 1880) and “Kither’s Buildings” on the facade. The ornate balcony has also been removed.
“Mr. W. Kither, Butcher, 13 and 117, Rundle-street, begs to inform his numerous Customers and the public in general that he has Taken the Business hitherto carried on by Mr. Hince, next the Red Lion, 13, Rundle-street, which will be continued in connection with his old established Shop at 117, Rundle-street. . . continuing to supply Meat of Prime Quality, at the lowest remunerative rates for cash payments.” [Adelaide Express 10 Aug 1866 advert]
“Butchers, Rundle-street. In returning their sincere thanks to the public for their liberal support bestowed on the late W. Kither for so many .years, beg respectfully to intimate that they will still carry on the business on the same premises in the name of S. Kither & Son.” [Express & Telegraph 13 Sep 1869 advert]
“William Kither, Late of the Firm of S. Kither & Son, 117 Rundle-Street, Butchers and Sausage Makers. In tendering my sincere thanks to the customers and the public generally for the very liberal support accorded to our old-established business for the last 20 years, I beg to intimate that I will in future carry on the said business in my own name.” [Register 9 Nov 1875 advert]
“On Saturday evening the first three shops of the block of buildings in Rundle street to be known hereafter as Kither's Buildings were lighted up and opened for the inspection of the public. . . The principal shop of the three is intended for Mr. W. Kither, and is one of the best-appointed butcher's establishments we have ever seen. The shop is thirty feet long by nineteen wide and fourteen in height. A very pleasing effect is secured by the introduction of Minton's hexagon glazed white enamelled tiles, with which the walls are entirely lined. . . There is to be an icehouse in this cellar in which to keep meat during the summer, and the accommodation otherwise is well adapted for the curing and export trade Mr. Kither carries on with Mauritius. Above and behind Mr. Kither's shop there is a substantial residence. The two adjoining shops are eighty-six feet long by twelve feet wide, and have above them rooms of the same dimensions.” [Evening Journal 14 Jul 1879]
“the style adopted being Italian renaissance of very ornate character, forming a striking addition to the architecture of Adelaide. The verandahs are of noble proportions, and the effect is greatly added to by the artistic pencils of Messrs. Vosz & Son and their workmen.” [Chronicle & Weekly Mail 19 Jul 1879]
“William Kither, Butcher and Sausage Maker, has the honour to announce that he will Open His Elegant and Commodious Premises, recently rebuilt at great expense under the supervision and from the designs of a well known architect, at Kither’s Buildings, Rundle-Street on Saturday, July 19, 1879, where he trusts his numerous customers and friends will favour him by a continuance of their support, which he has enjoyed for so many years past.” [Evening Journal 18 Jul 1879 advert]
“To Let Two New Shops (Kither’s Buildings), each 70 feet long, with Corresponding Rooms above, and Good Cellars.” [Register 15 Jul 1879 advert]
“Wanted, a Slaughterman. Apply at W. Kither's, Rundle-street.” [Register 29 Jul 1879 advert]
“We are requested to call the attention of the Public of the east part of the City to those cool and well ventilated Rooms, opened by J. Jackman, which was so much needed in that locality, where Tea, Coffee, or Cooca, 3d. per cup, can be had at any time from 7 a.m. till 8 p.m.; also Breakfast, consisting of Meat Bread and Butter, 2 cups of Tea or Coffee, 1s.; Dinner — three courses, 1s, Soup Joint, Pastry, or Cheese; Tea, according to bill of fare, with Bread and Butter and 2 cups of Tea, 1s. Ice Drinks, Ice Creams during the season.— Jackman's Dining Rooms,48 and 59, King William-street, and 117, Rundle-street, Kither’s Buildings.” [Advertiser 8 Mar 1880 advert]
“J. Menkens & Son . . . have Removed from 167 to 117a Rundle-street (Kither’s New Buildings), Invite inspection of their Stock of Fancy Goods, Bohemian and other Glassware, Crockery, Accordeons of the celebrated Lyre Brand, &c., &c. Motto — ‘Small Profits and Quick Returns’.” [Evening Journal 7 Dec 1880 advert]
“The Adelaide Cash Grocery Store, 117A, Rundle-Street. Just opened. . . Kither’s Buildings, nearly opposite the Plough and Harrow.” [Register 10 Jul 1882 advert]
“On Tuesday from noon until 2 o'clock in the afternoon the first free distribution of soup and bread to the distressed poor was made at the premises of Alderman Kither, who on that occasion provided both articles. . . there is a great deal of distress in the city. Altogether about thirty gallons of soup and forty loaves of bread were carried off by eager and indigent and genuinely grateful applicants, and the average daily demand will probably be about double that quantity. . . The soup and the bread were distributed by three private gentlemen who have interested themselves in the movement, and they were assisted by two of the City Missionaries and Miss Green.” [Evening Journal 28 May 1884]
“A refrigerating machine, the invention of Mr. Edmund Taylor — the first of the kind ever introduced into this colony — has just been erected under the superintendence of the inventor on the premises of Mr. W. Kither, butcher, of Rundle-street. . . In the very hot weather it is impossible by any ordinary process to keep meat more than a few hours, and to many it is equally difficult to eat it when newly killed. . . sufficient cold air can be stored to keep the compartments cool for thirty-six hours without recourse to the machine, an advantage which enables the butcher to dispense with Sunday work, and which allows the slaughterman a clear rest from Saturday noon to Monday morning.” [Evening Journal 23 Jul 1884]
“Salvatore Lazza, French, Italian, and English Confectioner, late of Adelaide Exhibition. . . has Removed to those commodious Buildings known as Kither’s Buildings, 117 Rundle-street. . . All Goods of the choicest, quality retail at wholesale prices. . . French Cocoanut and Cocoanut Chips fresh daily.” [Express & Telegraph 28 Jan 1888 advert]
“Defrie’s Lamps, Chimneys, and Wicks, Chair Seats, all sizes, only from H. L. Newman, Kither’s Buildings, Rundle-street.” [Evening Journal 25 Feb 1892 advert]
“Suits. . . Hats. . . High Class Tailoring. . . All Wool Materials, Thoroughly Shrunk. . . Hepworth’s Ltd. The London, Leeds, and Edinburgh Tailors and manufacturers, 117, Rundle-st. (Kither’s Buildings).” [Register 8 May 1895 advert]
“The Co-operative Coupon Company Limited. Have Leased those Extensive Premises at 117a, Rundle-street, known as Kither's Buildings, and have opened them as Showrooms for the display of their Goods, which consist of Silverware, Lamps, Furniture, Clocks, Musical Instruments, Japanese Goods, &c., &c. The novel feature of this Company is that the Goods are Given Away Free in Exchange for Co-operative Coupons, which are obtained from the various Tradesmen in the City and Suburbs issuing them.” [Evening Journal 1 Nov 1898 advert]
“Quality Meat. New Season’s Lamb. 7½d. Paddock-fed Beef. Kither’s Quality Butchers, Rundle St.” [Register 31 Oct 1924 advert]
“Clarkson Limited has purchased the freehold of the building in Rundle street, in which the business known as W. Kither, butcher, is conducted. The premises have a frontage of 63 ft. to Rundle street and a depth of 160 ft. to Twin street. It is understood that the purchase price is in the vicinity of £40,000.” [News 14Jun 1926]
“At the Abattoirs sales on Wednesday a consignment of spring lambs, which, was sold by Messrs. Elder, Smith and Co., Limited, on account of the Roseworthy College, provided an interesting example of the type and growth of various breeds and crosses. . . All the lambs were purchased by W. Kither, butcher, of Rundle-street, and will be exhibited at this shop later in the week.” [Chronicle 23 Jul 1931]
“Auction. . . To Butchers, Engineers. Dealers, &c. . . at Kither’s Old Premises, 135 Rundle Street. . . Sale of Surplus Plant and Equipment Owing to Expiration of Lease and Change of Address.” [Advertiser 16 Mar 1932 advert]
“Tenders are invited . . . for Remodelling and Extending Premises, Rundle Street, for Clarkson Limited. . . Woods, Bagot, Laybourne Smith and Irwin, Architects.” [News 8 Jul 1932 advert]
“From very small beginnings in 1848. . . The originator was Mr. H. L. Vosz, the Pioneer Painter and Plumber of South Australia. He first imported Glass to the colony, and a small shop was opened at 88 Rundle street, where the business was carried on until long after his death in 1886. . . The present Managing Director, Mr: A. E. Clarkson, entered the business in 1890. . . In 1915 the business assumed the name of Clarkson Limited. . . Clarkson Limited will open new premises .in Rundle street on Monday, December 5, on the site formerly known as Kither's Buildings, and the new showrooms will be up to date and modern in every respect. There is a frontage of 63 ft. and a floor space of over 30.000 square feet. . . It is the Company's intention to specialise, as in the past, in the requirements of the Building and allied trades, viz., Paints, Glass, Mirrors, Leaded Lights, Wallpapers, Artistware, Builders' Hardware, Plumbingware, etc., and domestic electrical appliances and refrigerators have also been added to the Company's stocks.” [News 1 Dec 1932]
“Clarkson Limited — Adelaide glass, paint and hardware merchants — this year celebrates its centenary of trading in South Australia. . . The business was founded 100 years ago by Mr. H. L. Vosz, who arrived from Europe in 1848 and started work as a carpenter and painter in Ackland street. . . Soon afterwards he rented premises in Rundle street and he was the first to import plate glass into SA. Mr. Vosz died in 1886 and for some years the business was carried on by those who had been closely associated with him. In 1904 the firm was incorporated . . . and in 1915 the name of the company was changed from H. L. Vosz Limited to Clarkson Limited, assuming the name of its managing director, the late Mr. A. E. Clarkson, who died in 1936. . . The company has occupied its present premises in Rundle street since 1932.” [Advertiser 17 Feb 1948]
WILLIAM KITHER
“Mr. William Kither, of Adelaide. . . was the proprietor of one of the oldest businesses in Rundle street; he had lived 55 years in South Australia. . . Mr. Kither had been married more than 40 years, and his wife, formerly Miss Elizabeth Morcom, was the daughter of an Adelaide coachbuilder well known in the early days of the State. . . Mr. Kither was a Londoner, born at Bow, in 1843. . . came to South Australia in 1855 with his father, mother, and six brothers and sisters in the ship Constance. . . his first duty was to weigh pins into 1-oz. packets. Ere long Master Kither apprenticed himself to a butcher. . . the apprentice persuaded his father to reopen the shop. That was about 1857. . . For two or three years the son and the widow were in partnership, then Mr. Kither began business on his own account. His operations rapidly expanded, and he found it necessary to pull down the old shop, and build the more commodious place which still bears his name. . . Mr. Kither became Councillor for Hindmarsh Ward in the City Council, and in 1883 was chosen as Alderman. . . a stanch advocate of asphalting in preference to woodblocking for street pavements.” [Register 25 Jan 1911]
“The citizens of Adelaide will remember his goodness all through the severe winter of 1884. when he proved his practical nature by keeping open a soup kitchen for the benefit of those who were in need. In support of organised philanthropic institutions and bodies, Mr. Kither's name always figured. He was a life governor of the Children's Hospital, and also of the Blind. Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and he served for ten years on the board of management of the Adelaide Hospital.” [Express & Telegraph 24 Jan 1911]
“Mr. Kither has left a widow and nine children. The sons are Messrs. J. M. Kither, H. Kither, of Messrs. Bennett and Fisher, J. S. Kither, and C. M. Kither. . . The daughters are Mesdames J. Vicars (Sydney), H. L. Jackman, Leslie Taylor, and Roy Taylor. The widow is in London.” [Evening Journal 24 Jan 1911]
“Probate has been granted in the will of the late Mr. William Kither, of Mount Lofty, who died at Knightsbridge, London, on January 23 last, while on a visit to England. . . The executors are Elizabeth Jane Kither (widow of the testator), and Herbert Kither and Clarence Maturin Kither (sons). . . The butchering business so successfully carried on under the direction of the deceased has been transferred to Clarence Maturin Kither, who managed it in his father's absence.” [Register 21 Mar 1911]
For Our Daily Challenge - Inventions
It was the lightbulb, the steam engine, or the wheel. I opted for the handiest. Great topic BTW.
For Our Daily Topic - Handy.
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The tree came to the inventor’s Fort Myers winter home in 1925, a four-foot Ficus benghalenis producing white sap that Edison and his friends Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone hoped to use in making natural rubber.
The banyan was not the answer. But it remained, growing to an acre in diameter, and becoming one of more than 1,000 plants from around the world ornamenting 25 acres dedicated mostly to the man who invented the electric light bulb, the phonograph and the motion picture.
Fifteen historic buildings stand in graceful restorative pose, including the Edisons’ home and guest house, a botanic research laboratory, an artesian-fed swimming pool dating to 1911, and Ford’s winter home. The combined Edison and Ford estates, museum, laboratory, and shops are open 363 days a year, closed only on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
The botanical specimens, many of them labeled for easy identification, offer shade for strollers - and sometimes a touch of the exotic. It is not every day one sees an African sausage tree bearing hot-dog shaped fruit.
Edison, of course, is more extensively associated with his inventions. He held more than 1,000 United States patents, and he submitted patent paperwork for a record 65 consecutive years. Among his lesser known creations: the talking doll, the electric train, alkaline batteries, a fruit preserver, and a stencil pen, the grandfather of today’s tattoo stylus.
“Really cool,” said Aaron Summers, a visitor from San Diego. “I didn’t realize how many patents Edison actually had.”
A 15,000-square-foot, air-conditioned museum details the world’s busiest inventor’s extraordinary career, which stretched from 1869 - when he was 22 years old - virtually to 1931, the year he died.
Among hundreds of items and documents in the museum is Edison’s original custom Model T, a gift from Ford. A more personal artifact is the frame Edison built for the phonograph he was devising. Hard of hearing, Edison rigged the phonograph to the frame, which he would bite to feel vibrations and “hear” the music. The wizard’s teeth marks are visible in the wood.
The museum’s newest exhibit chronicles the camping adventures of Edison, Ford, Firestone and turn-of-the-century naturalist and environmental writer John Burroughs. The “vagabonds,” as they referred to themselves, camped throughout Florida and the United States.
Also on display is “Edison After 40,” an exhibit on loan from the Smithsonian Institution. It includes images from Edison’s middle and later years. In counterpoint, “The Child Wizard” shows early images of Edison as a youth, as captured in Michael Dooling’s award-winning book, Young Thomas Edison.
And not to be missed are the entertainment artifacts: phonographs, movie projectors, nickelodeons and films.
“I learned a lot of new things. So many inventions. I loved the phonographic demonstrations,” said Susan Wood, who is from England.
More than 200,000 visitors per year come to the property, where Edison and his family spent winter seasons starting in 1885. For $2,750, the inventor bought the property from the family of Jacob Summerlin, a legendary Florida cowman known as the King of the Crackers.
“This house is a dream . . . and we are living in Fairyland,” Edison’s wife Mina wrote of the Florida retreat, which was dubbed “Seminole Lodge.” At its edge, the broad Caloosahatchee River whispers against a restored limestone-and-coquina seawall.
Edison was perhaps “green” before the word became fashionable. Some of his words on the subject are posted in the museum: “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.” Edison wrote that in 1931.
Ford bought property next door to his mentor in 1916. As a youth, the motor company founder worked at an Edison company in Detroit. The budding auto magnate used his spare time tinkering with gas-powered engines. The two entrepreneurs met at a convention in 1896, and Edison encouraged the younger man. The two proved to be kindred spirits. The automaker purchased property next to Edison in 1916, naming it “The Mangoes.”
The entrepreneurs spent hours sitting on their porches, discussing projects, planning trips to the Everglades, listening to Mina play the piano, and perhaps playing Parcheesi, Edison’s favorite game.
“It was interesting to learn how good of friends they actually were,” said Eric Rye, visiting from Sarasota.
Guests had to stay in line, though. The Edisons had seven rules, one in particular noting that discretion was important: “Don’t fail to retire to your room for part of each day - so that the family may squabble without embarrassment.”
— By Jon Wilson, VISIT FLORIDA