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My laptop stand invention using a tripod, brackets, bolt and vent tray. a real lifesaver for a broken neck.
The theme for this issue was fashion history between 1900-1900. To illustrate the history, we added close up images of items that were invented at that time as a backdrop to the fashion clothes.
Photography by Mads
Styling by Paul
Make-up by Huan
Hair by Crazy Nhoc
Modelling by Kat (Anh Thu)
During the annual fourth-grade invention convention held on March 26, students presented their one-of-a-kind handmade inventions to parents and the Augusta community.
Today i am presenting you a list of cool and awesome inventions. These gadgets are so wonderful that you want to buy all of them. Lets have a look on these gadgets and inventions and tell me in comments below what you like or dislike? On This Page.
From GE reports: "Playing baseball at night is now one of the league’s primary revenue machines, and its all based on a GE innovation from the 1930s.
That lighting revolution began in 1935 at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. What happened on that field irreversibly changed the economics of the sport, and allowed baseball to become the international entertainment product that it is today.
In 1934, the Cincinnati Reds drew 207,000 fans in 77 home games. The advent of night baseball also was a revolution for American workers — it allowed anyone with a 9 to 5 job to attend live baseball games. As such, in just 7 night games in 1935, the Reds drew 130,000 fans. Not bad for their $50,000 investment in GE’s lighting."
Of course, these lights are from a Dixie League game. The lights allow the kids to start their games at 7:30 on a school night. Clearly those decisions are not made by moms.
At the launch of the 1001 Inventions exhibition at the Science Museum, London.
See a short video of the launch here.
Oh COME-ON! Everybody should know that you never walk up the toboggan run!!!
I dedicate this to every kid-at-heart that is [right now] saying 'Oh ya!' to this most excellent of toboggan runs. Each and every single one of us know that it was us & our friends who truly invented the luge... we just didn't think to put our name on it first! =^D
...Although my hat goes off to my Uncle Fraser and Uncle Donny who actually dared to venture down the 'Old Gravel Cory' on a discarded Ford door!
Waterloo Park, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Thank you for all of your kind comments, visits, faves and invites. I do appreciate you taking the time to stop by for a wee visit. ♥ =^D
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Found these sketches while cleaning out before moving - some inventions I dreamed of when the kids were babies.
This one is a light on the car front that is automatically turned on when the speed exceeds XX km/hour.
St Nicholas, Bedfield, Suffolk
I've now been visiting this remote little church for twenty years. I love to cycle around the back lanes of Suffolk as summer becomes autumn, the land quietly putting itself to bed for the winter, woodsmoke in the air, the edgy cries of pheasants in the woods, the light whitening out as the afternoon lengthens.
When I first came to St Nicholas, it was in early October 1998. They were getting their church ready for the harvest festival, one of those very English events which must seem curious to a foreign visitor. Harvest festivals are one of those peculiarly Anglican inventions. Like many such ancient traditions, they actually only date back to the 1840s or so. Most Suffolk village churches have them, and do them very well. For some churches, it seems the only time apart from Christmas that the building comes alive.
On this occasion, half a dozen people were busy arranging apples, and marrows, and pumpkins, and leeks, piled in crates and carrier bags at the entrance to the church. They chatted as they did so, and it struck me that this was a kind of communion, the parish being together and talking to itself.
There is a particular smell to a medieval church filled with fruit and vegetables. Once experienced, it is never forgotten, and instantly draws your imagination back to ancient walls, soft wood and cool tiles. For me, it still recalls the beautiful late medieval roodscreen at Bedfield, lined with apples and onions.
I had cycled here along the track from Tannington. Once this leaves the farmyard behind, it becomes the kind of track you'd have found all over Suffolk before the 1920s and 1930s. When you look at an old road map of Suffolk, you find many more byways marked than there are today. Some of them were surfaced, many have disappeared completely. The track between Tannington and Bedfield seems to be still deciding whether or not to settle on the latter option, for at several points it becomes nothing more than overgrown tractor ruts in the mud. But for most of the way it is a gravel track which for part of its route winds pleasantly through woodland.
Once, in the last year of the 20th Century, I passed a real gipsy caravan on this track. It was late winter, and the cold afternoon light was fading. The brightly coloured caravan had come to a halt, the little horse pulling miserably at the coarse tussocks on the field side. Behind, a man was working at a makeshift forge, the coals flaring suddenly in the uncertain dusk. He nodded once as I passed. I still don't know if it was real.
I came back later in the year on the occasion of the Historic Churches bike ride, and Bedfield church was bathed in the honeyed warmth of late summer. A giant puffball grew by the churchyard gate, and would have made a fine meal if the rats hadn't got to it first. Again the church was busy, a smiling lady at a table signing the forms of a couple of teenage girls with their dad. On this occasion, I could see the roodscreen without having to negotiate fruit and vegetables.
Unusually, the panels contain eight Old Testament prophets in gorgeous reds and greens. The faces of some of the prophets have been viciously attacked with a knife. This may have been the work of mid-16th century reformers, but it appears as though the same thing done at Brundish, a couple of miles off, was actually work commissioned by the iconoclast William Dowsing on behalf of the puritans a century later. Dowsing never came to Bedfield, though, but perhaps the Brundish churchwardens did. We stood together, the smiling lady and me, imagining the past.
Why even do it? It may simply have been a result of the injunction against images, that fundamentalist mistrust of the beauty of the human face being depicted. We have had a reminder with the evils meted out by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq that fundamentalism never did anybody any good, and the terrors of the Cromwellian night extended far beyond destroying artwork. As Eric Maria Remarque observed, tolerance is the daughter of doubt. So it gives me immense pleasure to see that behind the wicked knife slashes, the prophets seem a jolly lot, with smiles on their faces and the attitudes of old friends having a good time. Perhaps that is why they were attacked.
St Nicholas sits on the edge of another farmyard, although a proper road connects it to the fine pub and the village beyond. The tower dates from the 14th century, when the entire church seems to have been rebuilt, although there's quite a lot of evidence of the earlier church, including a fine Norman north doorway. There are three niches on the west face of the tower. From their relationship with each other, we can deduce that they probably contained a rood group.
Peter and I came this way in June 2007, as part of my plan to revisit the 650-odd Suffolk churches I had explored more than six years earlier. Quite honestly, we didn't expect to get in, because what I haven't mentioned was that, in those days, Bedfield church was just about the only medieval church in this part of Suffolk which was kept locked without a keyholder. However, as with several other places in the area on this beautiful day, St Nicholas was undergoing its spring clean. The grass was being cut, the benches polished, the floors mopped. In fact, they were just finishing, cars pulling off. As we walked up the graveyard path, we met the keyholder coming the other way. She was very kind, and very helpful. She went and checked with her husband that it would be okay for us to see inside, and then let us into the Priest door, and we stepped inside to the trim interior.
The church is smaller than it looks from outside. There was a major restoration in 1870, which left St Nicholas looking the very model of a rural parish church. The brick floor is an organic setting for some lovely rustic woodwork. It seems that the village had an enthusiastic carpenter in the late 17th century, for the group of benches by the door, the font cover and the pulpit all date from this time The benches are haunting, and it doesn't take much to imagine our ancestors tight-packed on them, shuffling their bottoms awkwardly at the preaching of the Word. I assume that most churches once had benches like this, and that they were destroyed at the time of 19th century restorations. The font cover is intricate, and it opens up without the need to remove it, as at Bramford and Boxford.
This was all well and good, but something was nagging me as we poked around. And then I was startled to notice that the rood screen had gone. Now, this isn't the kind of thing you usually expect. Surely it couldn't have been stolen? Fortunately not, for I was told it had been removed to be cleaned by the artist Christine Easton, who lives in the village, and would shortly be returned.
When it came back, so did I. I had also been told that Bedfield church was now open every day, so with some enthusiasm I cycled down the track from Tannington again, which twenty years on is now near impassable in places, necessitating getting off my bike and lifting it over rubble.
Ahead of me, St Nicholas was beautiful in the early autumn sunshine, a diadem at the end of the long track. I stepped inside to its instantly familiar homeliness and small-scale elegance, to the sight of the old screen as if it had never been away. Beyond the screen, the sanctuary was a riot of tiles and gothic lettering. vibrant in the light. Decoration of this type was deeply unfashionable for most of the twentieth century, and it did well to survive.
A poignant ledger stone to Thomas Dunston bears a simple skull and the inscription Hodie Mihi, Cras Tibi ('Mine today, yours tomorrow'). It is dated December 25th 1657, which is Christmas Day for us, but not for Thomas Dunston, for this was during Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth, and the celebration of Christmas, like so much else, was illegal. Hard to imagine, now, perhaps, although intolerance survives like a virus in abeyance, and always needs to be guarded against.
Lucy was doing some finger weaving today and was called on to ice some cupcakes. She had to take the weaving off her hand to take care of the icing but was concerned that she might not be able to pick up where she left off. After icing the cupcakes, she made this Finger Weave Holder to set the weaving on until she could get back to it. Note that it even has labels for proper use. This is a left hand Finger Weave Holder as the label indicates and the fingers have simple indicators so the user can easily identify which finger takes which loop - P: pointer; M: middle finger; R: ring finger; Pi: pinkie finger. Since she's coming up with inventions like this at 8, I'm hoping she'll make me a flying skateboard when she's 12.
Derek Lerner Invention of Demand 2003 Limited edition of 8 diazo bluelines, 43.18 x 53.34 cm signed & numbered
Researchers have begun trialing a toilet they devised that collects urine for microbial fuels cells to convert into electricity to light up cubicles in refugee camps.
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Students mix and match ingredients to invent a new flavor of popcorn. Students then had to market their invention to other students.
Photo by Bill Drake of photodrake.com
The monthly series
According to the statements of the Venetian historian Carlo Ridolfi (1648), a series of paintings representing the twelve months was sent to Rudolf in Prague: It is very likely that the works exhibited here are just those which belonged to the Emperor. The paintings correspond to the refined taste of an aristocratic authority: The high decorative value, the grandiosity of the iconographic program and sizeable dimensions suggest that they were intended for a great room.
In the inventory of the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm are to be found the twelve paintings recorded as works of the young Bassano: almost all are signed and have been created by Leandro towards the end of the nineties of the 16th century. The series has been preserved almost completely, and so we can still enjoy the unity of style and content. September and October are located in Prague, December is not yet reappeared. The image representing July was cut into two parts, probably for decorative considerations, but both fragments are preserved in Vienna.
The lovely hills surrounding Bassano provides the ambience in which take place the field works characterizing the respective month. The winter months of January, February and March, however - they represent a break in the rural task list - show other subjects: the return from the hunt, the carnival and a market scene. Each month is also provided with the corresponding sign of the zodiac, which appears in the middle of the clouds. The composition, wrapped in a dusky light, develops as parallel image into the landscape: the horizon forms the bluish massive of the mountain - probably the Monte Grappa - where the eye can rest.
Leandro describes the activities of the figures with great precision and carefulness in the reproduction of the details, from the working tools, en passant, the objects up to the clothes, so that the paintings in addition also represent a considerable documentary value. The artist intends to entertain the viewer in a pleasant manner and to dispel. Probably recognized some people themselves in the episodes again: for instance, in the richly-dressed lady who had served herself crops, or in the landlord who controls with his steward the works and the harvest. The monthly cycle, which has its roots in the fertile iconographic tradition of the Middle Ages, acquires in the interpretation of Leandros the character of a lively illustrated calendar, which is aimed at an aristocratic clientele.
The family of painters Bassano
Bassano, a small city, situated on the slopes of Monte Grappa in the northern Veneto, gave the family of painters Da Ponte not only the nickname, but also the fundamental inspirations for the art of the head of family Jacopo and his sons.
Jacopo Bassano was primarily active in the province, far away from the urban artists' centers, and is now considered one of the great masters of Venetian painting of the Cinquecento to the side of Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto. His fame he owes, i.a., the invention of a subject type, linking the pastoral scenes with biblical or allegorical motifs: for this reason he realized completely new and original compositions, enjoying such great popularity that the heirs of Jacopo continued to produce such paintings until the middle of the Seicento and beyond. Leandro, after Francesco the most gifted of the sons, was an irreplaceable support for the father in the workshop operation. With its vibrant and brilliant colors, he continued the fame of the Bassano family into the new century and has been, as a consequence, very successful, especially in the field of portraiture.
Die Malerfamilie Bassano
Bassano, eine kleine, an den Hängen des Monte Grappa im nördlichen Veneto gelegene Stadt, gab der Malerfamilie Da Ponte nicht nur den Beinamen, sondern auch grundlegende Anregungen für die Kunst des Familienoberhauptes Jacopo und seiner Söhne.
Jacopo Bassano war vornehmlich in der Provinz aktiv, weit entfernt von den städtischen Künstlerzentren, und gilt heute als einer der großen Meister der venezianischen Malerei des Cinquecento an der Seite von Tizian, Veronese und Tintoretto. Seinen Ruhm verdankt er unter anderem der Erfindung eines Sujettypus, der die Pastoralszenen mit biblischen oder allegorischen Motiven verknüpfte: Er realisierte damit völlig neuartige und originelle Kompositionen, die so große Beliebtheit genossen, dass die Erben Jacopos derartige Gemälde bis über die Mitte des Seicento hinaus weiterproduzierten. Leandro, nach Francesco der begabteste der Söhne, war für den Vater im Werkstattbetrieb eine unersetzliche Stütze. Mit seiner lebendigen und brillanten Farbgebung setzte er den Ruhm der Familie Bassano bis ins neue Jahrhundert fort und war in der Folge vor allem auf dem Gebiet der Portraitmalerei sehr erfolgreich.
Die Monatsserie
Gemäß den Aussagen des venezianischen Historikers Carlo Ridolfi (1648) wurde eine die zwölf Monate darstellende Gemäldeserie an Rudolf II. nach Prag gesandt: Es ist sehr wahrscheinlich, dass die hier ausgestellten Werke eben jene sind, die dem Kaiser gehörten. Die Gemälde entsprechen dem raffinierten Geschmack eines aristokratischen Auftraggebers: Der hohe dekorative Wert, die Grandiosität des ikonographischen Programms und die ansehnlichen Dimensionen lassen vermuten, dass sie für einen großen Raum gedacht waren.
Im Inventar des Erzherzogs Leopold Wilhelm finden sich die zwölf Gemälde als Werke des jungen Bassano verzeichnet: Fast alle sind signiert und wurden von Leandro gegen Ende der neunziger Jahre des 16. Jahrhunderts geschaffen. Die Serie ist fast zur Gänze erhalten geblieben, und so können wir uns auch heute noch an der Einheit von Stil und Inhalt erfreuen. Der September und der Oktober befinden sich in Prag; der Dezember ist noch nicht wieder aufgetaucht. Das Bild, das den Juli darstellt, wurde in zwei Teile geschnitten, wohl aus dekorativen Überlegungen, aber beide Fragmente sind in Wien erhalten.
Die liebliche Hügellandschaft um Bassano liefert das Ambiente, in dem sich die den jeweiligen Monat charakterisierenden Landarbeiten abspielen. Die Wintermonate Januar, Februar und März hingegen - sie stellen eine Ruhepause in der ländlichen Arbeit dar - zeigen andere Sujets: die Rückkehr von der Jagd, den Karneval und eine Marktszene. Jeder Monat ist zudem mit dem entsprechenden Tierkreiszeichen versehen, das inmitten der Wolken erscheint. Die Komposition, in ein dämmriges Licht gehüllt, entwickelt sich bildparallel in die Landschaft hinein: Den Horizont bildet das bläuliche Massive des Gebirges - wahrscheinlich der Monte Grappa -, wo das Auge Ruhe findet.
Leandro beschreibt die Tätigkeiten der Figuren mit großer Präzision und Sorgfalt in der Wiedergabe der Details, von den Arbeitswerkzeugen über die Gegenstände bis hin zur Kleidung, sodaß die Gemälde zusätzlich auch einen beträchtlichen dokumentarischen Wert repräsentieren. Der Künstler beabsichtigt, den Betrachter in angenehmer Weise zu unterhalten und zu zerstreuen. Wahrscheinlich erkannte sich so mancher in den Episoden wieder: Etwa in der reich gekleideten Dame, die sich Feldfrüchte vorlegen läßt, oder im Grundherrn, der zusammen mit seinem Gutsverwalter die Arbeiten und die Ernte kontrolliert. Der Monatszyklus, der seine Wurzeln in der fruchtbaren ikonographischen Tradition des Mittelalters hat, nimmt in der Interpretation Leandros den Charakter eines lebendig illustrierten Kalenders an, der sich an ein aristokratisches Publikum richtet.
To invent some fantastic inventions did we would long ago!
It is a curious nature and is always there to transform himself and his environment and reinvent. Here are some examples of inventions Which are so great why did one wonders theywere not invented much earlier.
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Lucy was doing some finger weaving today and was called on to ice some cupcakes. She had to take the weaving off her hand to take care of the icing but was concerned that she might not be able to pick up where she left off. After icing the cupcakes, she made this Finger Weave Holder to set the weaving on until she could get back to it. Note that it even has labels for proper use. This is a left hand Finger Weave Holder as the label indicates and the fingers have simple indicators so the user can easily identify which finger takes which loop - P: pointer; M: middle finger; R: ring finger; Pi: pinkie finger. Since she's coming up with inventions like this at 8, I'm hoping she'll make me a flying skateboard when she's 12.
Underwear Inventions: Adult coloring of illustrations from a fascinating book by Steven M. Johnson: Have fun inventing. The illustrations alone are worth the cost of the book. Nice work.
Menlo Middle School students test out their engineering inventions during Innovations Day. Photo by Pete Zivkov.
Creating the Future: Science, Technology, Invention, and Innovation
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