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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.
Cibils Beef Extract "Inventors & Their Inventions" issued in 1900.
George Stephenson ~ The Railway Locomotive
Cibils Beef Extract "Inventors & Their Inventions" issued in 1900.
Henry Bessemer ~ Steel Manufacture
Fourth-grade inventors are knee-deep in Invention Convention preparations. A recent student-parent workday brought inventions several steps closer to finalization. Here is a sneak peek of the work that is going into these inventions. They will be on display at the Invention Convention on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013.
- This photo was taken on April 5, 2016 right next to Algonquin College, Ottawa
- The design theme relates to the design themes shown in the very first chapter of the book "The Invention of Writing"
- Everyone knows what the red hand or the green walking man at the traffic lights means: it is either stop or go
- Just like we saw the pictures of cave paintings in the first chapter, you can see similarities. With easy symbols we still communicate to give out warnings to other people or to lead them in the right direction
The Storm
1
Against the stone breakwater,
Only an ominous lapping,
While the wind whines overhead,
Coming down from the mountain,
Whistling between the arbors, the winding terraces;
A thin whine of wires, a rattling and flapping of leaves,
And the small street-lamp swinging and slamming against
the lamp pole.
Where have the people gone?
There is one light on the mountain.
2
Along the sea-wall, a steady sloshing of the swell,
The waves not yet high, but even,
Coming closer and closer upon each other;
A fine fume of rain driving in from the sea,
Riddling the sand, like a wide spray of buckshot,
The wind from the sea and the wind from the mountain contending,
Flicking the foam from the whitecaps straight upward into the darkness.
A time to go home!--
And a child's dirty shift billows upward out of an alley,
A cat runs from the wind as we do,
Between the whitening trees, up Santa Lucia,
Where the heavy door unlocks,
And our breath comes more easy--
Then a crack of thunder, and the black rain runs over us, over
The flat-roofed houses, coming down in gusts, beating
The walls, the slatted windows, driving
The last watcher indoors, moving the cardplayers closer
To their cards, their anisette.
3
We creep to our bed, and its straw mattress.
We wait; we listen.
The storm lulls off, then redoubles,
Bending the trees half-way down to the ground,
Shaking loose the last wizened oranges in the orchard,
Flattening the limber carnations.
A spider eases himself down from a swaying light-bulb,
Running over the coverlet, down under the iron bedstead.
Water roars into the cistern.
We lie closer on the gritty pillow,
Breathing heavily, hoping--
For the great last leap of the wave over the breakwater,
The flat boom on the beach of the towering sea-swell,
The sudden shudder as the jutting sea-cliff collapses,
And the hurricane drives the dead straw into the living pine-tree.
--Theodore Roethke
An archive picture of brothers Edward and Andy Slice, inventors of Sliced Bread.
Before this product came along, people would often have conversations that tapered off, as they struggled to finish the sentence "why, that's the best thing since...er...um".
Now, of course, we take Sliced Bread in our stride, but as we can see here, it wasn't all plain sailing.
The brothers are looking at the first prototype - it seems they have realised something is wrong with the product, but haven't yet quite worked out what.
ODT-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.
Since opening in 1865, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has become one of the finest academic institutions in the world. The school, located just down the road from Harvard, has produced 77 Nobel laureates, 52 National Medal of Science recipients, 45 Rhodes Scholars, and 38 MacArthur Fellows. Notable alumni include: I.M. Pei, Ben Bernanke, Buzz Aldrin, and Benjamin Netanyahu. The campus also features spectacular architecture including The Stata Center, Kresge Auditorium, and Simmons Hall.
MIT. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Lacock is a village in the rural county of Wiltshire, England, 3 miles (5 km) from the town of Chippenham. The village is owned almost in its entirety by the National Trust, and attracts many visitors by virtue of its unspoiled appearance.
The village has been used as a film and television set, notably for the 1995 BBC production of Pride and Prejudice, the 2007 BBC production of Cranford. It has also made brief appearances in the Harry Potter films Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
The Abbey, located at the heart of the village within its own woodland grounds, is a quirky country house of various architectural styles, built upon the foundations of a former nunnery. Visitors can experience the atmosphere of the medieval rooms and cloister court, giving a sense of the Abbey's monastic past.
The museum celebrates the achievements of former Lacock resident, William Henry Fox Talbot, famous for his contributions to the invention of photography.
CA Dance Company performs "The Invention of Morel" by Adolfo Bioy Casares. For the work the Company, directed by Richard Colton, has been collaborating this year with the CA Science Program's John Pickle and Max Hall, and CA's engineering club, The Demons. The dancers, a cast of fifteen, will interplay with an original film created for "Morel," by CA Film teacher Justin Bull and music by contemporary composers Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington. The dance's scenario is by Jared Green and set and light design by Ian Hannan.
Spring-Summer 2025
I was very happy to be allocated this special jigsaw in John Hyde's jigsaw collection dispersal sale, almost ten years after I first saw it. I can recall each time John brought it to our meetings, and fond memories of sitting with him doing another jigsaw we both believe to be by the same cutter. The second jigsaw was in moderate condition, and I was very grateful to Bronwen for her offer to mend it for me. It was only fitting that the first time I built Attack on the Coach it was on holiday with Bronwen at a Landmark Trust property.
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Nov 2015
This fabulous jigsaw seen at the Nov 2015 meeting was brought back to the Nov 2016 BCD meeting. It is one of its owner's favourite jigsaws - which considering his collection is saying a very great deal indeed. It was one of the very best brought along to either meeting, for the verve and invention of the whimsy cut. Whimsies are often arranged in clumps where they form local tessellations.
This information comes from Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Edwards
Lionel Edwards (11 September 1878 – 13 April 1966) was a British artist who specialized in painting horses and other aspects of British country life. He is best known for his hunting scenes but also painted pictures of horse racing, shooting and fishing. He provided illustrations for Country Life, The Sphere, The Graphic and numerous books.
The son of a doctor, Edwards grew up at Benarth, a small estate in Conway, North Wales. His father, from whom he acquired his love of fox hunting, died when he was seven. From an early age, he showed a talent for drawing horses, an artistic trait which may have come from his maternal grandmother, who was a pupil of George Romney. It seemed he was heading for an Army career until it became apparent that his talents did not lie in that direction, so his mother allowed him to study art in London, first with A.S. Cope and later at the Heatherley School of Fine Art and Frank Calderon's School of Animal Painting. He became the youngest member of the London Sketch Club at the age of nineteen. In 1905, he married Ethel Wells and the couple moved out of London to Radley, in Oxfordshire, and later to Worcestershire, before moving back to Benarth. They both were enthusiastic fox hunters: during his life, Edwards hunted with almost every pack in the country.
On the outbreak of the Great War, he volunteered as a Remount Purchasing Officer along with his contemporaries, Cecil Aldin and Sir Alfred Munnings. On being demobilized, he and his family moved to West Tytherley, near Salisbury, where he lived for the rest of his life.
His artistic output was remarkable: he wrote almost 30 books and illustrated many more, including editions of Black Beauty, Lorna Doone and The Black Arrow, in addition to numerous private commissions. He became a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art in 1926 and the Royal Institute in 1927. His favorite medium was watercolours, although he used oils more in his later years. He worked to the end of his life, dying from a stroke at his home on 13 April 1966.
Hill's Cigarettes "Inventors & Their Inventions" (series of 20 issued in 1907)
#9 George Stephenson ~ The first (passenger) locomotive engine
Found these sketches while cleaning out before moving - some inventions I dreamed of when the kids were babies.
This is a bedside table that you can easily pull in in front of yourself while lying in bed.
Kilburn Tube Mural, Kilburn High Road.
"Mother of Invention is the silent narrator of the mural. Represented pushing a modern day 3-wheeled pram (in reference to development at Tricycle Theatre), she pervades time and race, representing the hopes and dreams of those who enter the big city, as well as the expectations of those who leave it seeking peace and tranquillity. Walking through landscapes both past, present and future, she rouses past memories and new beginnings."
Week one of storytelling, we invent for the giraffe. This was very handy for me because I am running away with the "Mermaid Circus" this week and I'm getting my giraffe and hippo act together.
The wheel was a handy little invention and so was the flush toilet but remember those dark days of yesteryear when we actually had to get off our butts and go to the tv to change the channel? yech (I managed to get Flo, from Progressive Insurance in the shot-what are the chances? )
ODC1, inventions
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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
Disneyland Paris.
June 2014.
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By Barie Fez-Barringten
After Earth Day one and founding Earth Day twowe created and built the loft housing Laboratories for Metaphoric Environments (LME) in Manhattan’s east sixty eight street just across form Avadon’s (the world famous fashion photographer) studios and in a building owned by Mr. Fernandez who ran a high end commercial bakery on the ground floor. In Union Square I had met Adam Alexander who at time was special assistant to Mayor Lindsay. Adam lived on the West side and had several doctorates in mathematics. He somehow decided to collaborate with me to form LME and so from 1971 till 1973 when we left New York for Jackson Tennessee we had conversations which I documented with words and sketches.
What I later called word grams (after the DaDa movement) were my cognitive responses to reify these subjects through my fascination with geometry, graphics, design, drafting, and isometrics extrapolations. Adam knew I was doing this and after looking at my work sheet often would interrupt and say: “yes, that’s right” or ask “is that what you think”?
The previous year I did much the same thing with a graduate student from City College named Phil Winters who would document our conversations into his thesis based on a system he called: “TAG” (trust, authority and guidance). When Adam was not at the lab Henry Classon and I would likewise converse so that he could write the prospectus for LME.
It was only when I was writing and managing trainees and consultants for ARAMCO in Saudi Arabia did I then mount all 63 word grams on cardboard and then with dry mount film glazed each to the cardboard. In 1981 I thought these would eventually be exhibited as relics of the times.
Sadly, Adam disappeared, as had Phil and so many others from this very creative time. In 1972, after packing Plexiglas sculptures, pen and ink sketches, paintings and our personal effects Christina joined me as I assumed directing the architecture department for an insurance company where I designed two Tennessee cities and one village in Belmopan. At that time a local gallery owner invited us to exhibit our art and even a gallery in Memphis exhibited and sold many of my Sheba pen and ink fantasy drawings.