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It's impossible to know who invented music; perhaps man didn't invent it at all, but simply learned to imitate the sounds of nature. Nevertheless, music is one of the universal joys of people everywhere.
We attended the free Friday night concert at the Courthouse Square in Redwood City to listen to one of our favorites who perform there every year - Caravanserai - an excellent Santana Tribute Band. Their percussionists - 4 in total are absolutely fantastic; and as you can the crowd was on their feet all night. It was one of those joyful summer nights that just makes you glad to be alive - music can do that to us !
Hill's Cigarettes "Inventors & Their Inventions" (series of 20 issued in 1907)
#6 Sir William Armstrong ~ The 110 ton gun
Friends of Beamish info by Rory Sinclair: This unique vehicle is a recent acquisition, on display in the garage in the 1900s Town.
The unique feature of this vehicle is the chassis frame that pivoted in the middle to provide four-wheel steering. This method of steering was the invention of Thomas Hugh Parker of Wolverhampton in 1905-06, who was responsible for the design of a number of electric, steam and petrol-driven vehicles from 1897.
It is believed that the surviving Shew, with 14h.p. twin cylinder Forman engine, was the second of two prototypes with articulating chassis, designed by Mr. Parker, and constructed at the Burnt Tree Engineering Works, Dudley, in 1906-07.
The first prototype had a four cylinder White and Poppe engine, and ran for eight months as a taxicab on the streets of London. The success of this vehicle led to the formation of The Sedan Auto-Car Syndicate Limited, Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton, in October 1907, to market this vehicle both as a car and a commercial.
About this time, The Marquis of Londonderry's Seaham Harbour Engine Works had ceased the manufacture of Londonderry Steam Waggons and expressed an interest in the Parker vehicle.
Hence, the prototype Shew was despatched to Seaham Harbour Engine Works by rail, and agreement was reached that they would commence manufacture of this vehicle on behalf of the Sedan Auto-Car Syndicate.
The enterprise failed after only three vehicles had been produced, including a lorry for The Coalite Company.
The Shew car was retained by the Seaham Works as a runabout, and about 1912 was extensively rebuilt: the articulating chassis steering was discarded and conventional Ackermann steering fitted.
After the First World War the Shew was relegated to carrying out duties on The Marquis of Londonderry's Estate at Wynyard Park, and was finally pensioned off before the Second World War.
In 1956, as a result of a "tip-off" from veteran car enthusiast Fred Baxter of Harrogate, George Kendrew discovered the mystery Shew in one of the outbuildings on The Marquis of Londonderry's Estate, and towed the vehicle to his home in Norton-on-Tees behind his Armstrong Siddeley car,
Mr Kendrew surmised that the initial letters Shew on the plate fixed to the radiator probably stood for Seaham Harbour Engine Works.
He replaced the solid-tyred wheel rims with beaded edge rims to take pneumatic tyres, and rebuilt the remains of the four seater touring body as a four seater double phaeton to be consistent with a claimed 1904 date.
The dating was provisionally accepted by the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain, which enabled Mr Kendrew to participate in the 1957 Veteran Car Run. The Veteran Car Club was never able to find a single contemporary piece of evidence to show that Seaham Harbour Engine Works produced a petrol-driven vehicle.
However they found good reason to believe that it could not have been made as early as 1904. On the chassis frame was found the trademark of Rubery, Owen and Company, and it was established that this firm was simply Rubery and Company until about October 1905.
The 1906 type Forman engine, and the fact that the Registration Mark BR 211 was issued about May 1906, eventually led research historian Dennis Field to date the car 1906.
Mr Kendrew sold the Shew to a Garage in Mirfield, near Leeds, in the 1960s, and in 1967 the car was sold at Auction to a private collector in the south of England. The car's whereabouts were unknown until it surfaced in a Cheffins Auction in June 2003.
The name 'SEDAN' is cast into the brass hubcaps of the Shew, and as The Sedan Auto-Car Syndicate was not established until October 1907, the year of manufacture of the surviving car is most likely 1907.
Beamish Museum
Stanley, County Durham
"Arago annonce la découverte de Daguerre, dans la séance publique de l'Académie des sciences, du 19 août 1839", illustration de Yan d'Argent in Louis Figuier, "La Photographie", Les Merveilles de la Science, vol. III, 1867, p. 41.
Not an "invention", per se, but a diagram. This was drawn when I was 8 years old and in the third grade. I *loved* drawing diagrams and schematics of all kinds.
This is a picture of a bike I actually had; I remember being obsessed with the hand brakes and was very careful when drawing this to show them and the wires that connected to them. However, I apparently managed to draw the chain floating in mid-air and not actually connecting to the pedals.
In India and the Middle East every family has their own, closely guarded, recipe for the spices that when prepared and mixed together are known in the West as Curry.. I know that a particular Yemenite family has different curries for use in soup and for other particular dishes. The soup curry is known as hawaij. This means there is not just one curry per family, but a family of curries for each family.
Perhaps some cooks do feature their own family's recipe in their published cookbooks. I have found a few curry recipes online.
Here is the best article I have found on the different spices used as ingredients in a number of well known currie powders:
www.lionsgrip.com/curingredients.html
According to Wikepedia;
1. Curry powder is a spice mix of widely varying composition based on South Asian cuisine. Curry powder and the contemporary English use of the word "curry" are Western inventions and do not reflect any specific South Asian food, though a similar mixture of spices used in north South Asia is called garam masala.
2. Curry powder is actually closer to the Tamil sambar powder,[citation needed] and the word "curry" is derived from the Tamil word kari meaning "sauce, relish for rice", or from the Kannada word karil or from the Telugu word kuura.
Use of curry was prevalent in South Asia much before the advent of Europeans in India. In fact, almost 4000 years prior to the advent of Europeans, curry with key ingredients of ginger, garlic, and turmeric was used in the Indus Valley Civilization.
I add:
1. However, traders from Arabia and from Portuguese Goa introduced very hot Brazilian chile peppers, and that added new dimensions to the curry ingredients and taste pallet. .
2. Also, their mixing of other Asian spices enabled the development of 'curi'.
Ingredients
Most curry powder recipes include coriander, turmeric, cumin, fenugreek, and chili peppers in their blends. Depending on the recipe, additional ingredients such as ginger, garlic, asafoetida, fennel seed, caraway, cinnamon, clove, mustard seed, green cardamom, black cardamom, nutmeg, long pepper, and black pepper may also be included. Quality curry powder will contain curry leaf.[4][citation needed]
I add: I have no idea what curry leaf is!!
Paper Bag Making Machine, 1881
Edgar Stocking (Inventor)
mixed media 9 x 17 x 9 in.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Alan and Ann Rothschild
2011.37.13
No. 6 - 6:- Behind the High Street, Redbourn, Hertfordshire visiting the Common.
Cumberland House
1643 or 1645 is said to have been found on a chimney brick. It was a hunting lodge for the Duke of Cumberland with the pack of hounds kept on Dunstable Downs.
This particular Duke of Cumberland was probably:-
Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619-1682), soldier and inventor, was a younger son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine. He was born in Prague. His mother, Elizabeth of Bohemia, sometimes known as the "Winter Queen", was a sister of King Charles I of England, and consequently Rupert gave his allegiance to Charles when the English Civil War broke out, as did his sister, Prince Maurice.
Rupert was a brilliant cavalry officer, having gained some experience in the Thirty Years War. In 1642, King Charles appointed him to lead the Royalist cavalry, and their early successes are largely attributable to Rupert. His dashing reputation earned him the nickname of the "Mad Cavalier". He is reputed to have taken a large dog, "Boy", into battle with him on several occasions.
As Parliament's army gained the ascendant, Rupert's skills were not enough to save the Royalists, and when, in 1645, he surrendered Bristol, his uncle rejected him, forgetful of his earlier sterling service. Rupert was court-martialled at his own request and cleared of any blame, but he never enjoyed the king's favour as he had previously done, and in 1646 he left England.
By 1648 Rupert was fighting with the French against Oliver Cromwell's England. However, following a naval defeat by Admiral Robert Blake, he took refuge in the West Indies, where he followed the life of a buccaneer, preying on English shipping. Following the Restoration of the monarchy, he returned to the service of England. After his retirement from the military in around 1670, he engaged in scientific research, and has sometimes been credited with the invention of the mezzotint, as well as a form of gunpowder and an alloy named "Prince's metal" in his honour.
He directed the Hudson's Bay Company, which traded furs in Canada, and its immense trading monopoly was named Rupert's Land for him. Prince Rupert, British Columbia is likewise named for him.
Knowledgerush
Cumberland House passed through a number of owners being bought by Mr R Cecil Peake in 1890, he installed a generator making Cumberland House the first in the village with electric lighting. He was a JP at St Albans for 37 Years and died in 1933. Gertrude Peake Place on the High Street is named after one of his daughters.
From Dodie Allman ( nee Trask, granddaughter of Robert Cecil Peake)
I wonder if you know, that when my grandfather bought Cumberland House in 1890, he also bought "the Heath", up on the corner of the Common, for his three unmarried sisters to live in. Also a lot of acreage on Crouch Hall Lane,. When Cumberland was sold to Lady Wise, in the thirties, my Aunts, Gertrude and Anna Peake moved into the Heath. After WW11, they sold the Heath ,keeping enough property to build "Heybrigge"-beside it. My nephew Cecil. V. Peake bought that house,then sold it and it was razed to build four town houses. My mother Mabel Peake was born in Cumberland House in 1894. I have such fond memories of the most wonderful Christmas's, with twenty people staying in the house. I could go on and on, I know every nook and cranny of that house. One time while visitng England, my husband and I knocked on the door of the Electricity Board, and I asked if I could show my husband. they were very reluctant, I think they thought we were Russian spys, this was probably 19 87ish, anyway, we finally were allowed all around the old part.
My father Basil F Trask built " Longcroft' on Crouch Hall Lane.
Now at age 82, (I have lived here 59 years in April) I was so interested to read about Redbourn. I have a family picture taken in Cumberland house garden on my bedroom wall.
Asheville, North Carolina.
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A more recent owner was the Central Electricity Generating Board and later National Grid. It was used as an electricity supply control centre until its recent closure. The old car park is now used for housing (Cumberland Mews - now named Miller Close) and the surgery for the Health Centre Practice (Hawke's Drive). The back part of the Cumberland House Garden has become the Village Garden - now named Cumberland Garden, which provides a link from Hawke's Drive to the High Street.
The old car park entrance has been used for filming, the most recent being for an exterior prison scene for Judge John Deed, on what is now the entrance to Miller Close.
From the Parish Council Minutes Nov 06: - A Company called “Somethin’ Else” is filming in Cumberland House and has sought permission to also film on the Common.
Redbourn Web Page
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My friend, Jim Davis, invented the self start system used today for all top fuel motors. In the early 70's Jim was building dragster chassis in his Concord,CA shop. A top fuel driver himself, the practice at the time was to push start the dragster from the starting line, make a u-turn on the track (no reverse yet) and return to stage and race. As the chassis grew in length making a u-turn on track became more difficult. Jim invented the blower drive starter using P-51 12 volt aircraft starter motors from WWII which he purchased in bulk from military surplus dealers. When NHRA mandated self start systems others copied Jim's invention which he never bothered to patent. Bob "Mun" Munroe worked for Jim at the time and recalls Jim eventually giving the molds and tooling to a friend and fellow racer as gift. About this same time in the early 70's is when a biker named Arlen Ness approached Jim about modifying Sportster frames. Jim Davis was a World Record Holder in NHRA drag racing and drag boat racing. At the end of his life he was still driving front engined nostalgia top fuelers. Here is a link to YouTube video of Jim in 1983 at Fremont Raceway in California www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAbjZk4o-dY
Cibils Beef Extract "Inventors & Their Inventions" issued in 1900.
Johannes Gutenberg ~ The Printing Press
Hill's Cigarettes "Inventors & Their Inventions" (series of 20 issued in 1907)
#17 Robert Stephenson ~ bridge building and railway engineering
Found these sketches while cleaning out before moving - some inventions I dreamed of when the kids were babies.
#6 is an ironing board that folds out from the kitchen work bench.
#7 is a pram curtain
#8 an "åkpåse" (don't know the english word for it, "pram bag") that covers the baby's shoulders
#9 a duvet cover with jokes printed on it (this was thought up by my son who was around 5 years then)
#10 a special kind of cloth diaper
#11 a feeding bottle with built-in thermometer
alternate view of the thing I built for my wife's art studio.
see more Holistic Forge Works, Latest Inventions & blacksmithing techniques.
Found these sketches while cleaning out before moving - some inventions I dreamed of when the kids were babies.
This is a telephone cord that automatically rolls back when not stretched.
Fourth-grade students displayed their engineering skills during the annual Westminster Invention Convention held on Feb. 21 in the Lower School gym. The event was part of National Engineer’s Week.
Westminster has hosted the Invention Convention for more than 16 years, with fourth-grade teacher Kathy Buurma having organized each event. After learning about famous inventors, the students are tasked with determining a problem for which they would like to find a solution. The students work on the invention in class, and parents are invited to attend class to assist with construction. Four adults outside of the student’s immediate family test each invention before it is submitted for judging. The judges consider the reviews of the testers and the marketing of the invention in addition to the invention itself. Inventions this year include an extreme laptop case, a cat bed and breakfast and a lighted sweater for dogs.
ODC2 - Our Daily Challenge - Invention
Besides my camera and the internet and Flickr the microwave has to be one of my favourite inventions.
Has anyone else been having trouble uploading to Flickr this evening??
I intended to catch up on comments today but ended up having to go out all day, hope tomorrow is quiet and I will get to see all your great uploads.
and this is mine, and you can say this is my real first invention..
but really, don't ask me how i did it, cuz maybe WE have to figure out that togather :P
Actors Rob Lowe and Jennifer Garner appear on stage during the film introduction at "The Invention of Lying" premiere at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto.