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Today was a musical day in Inventor School! First we reviewed some safety tips with a fun online game. Next we played a banana keyboard (yes, you read that right). We used Makey Makey to connect bananas to our keyboards to play a digital keyboard. Finally we used play-doh as a conductor to play Whack-A-Mole.
Statue of Robert Fulton
1872
Caspar Buberl (American, born Bohemia, 1834-1899).
Painted zinc with plaster repairs, height: 126 in., 2500 lb.
This imposing statue commemorating Robert Fulton (1765–1815) portrays the famous American engineer and inventor with a model of his boat the Nassau, the first steam-powered ferry to operate between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Fulton revolutionized commercial steamboat travel, which fueled the rapid development of Brooklyn village around the Fulton Ferry landing. This area, now located under the Brooklyn Bridge, is depicted in Francis Guy’s Winter Scene of 1820, hanging nearby.
Cast in a Brooklyn foundry, this zinc statue was originally installed in a niche of the Fulton Ferry Terminal building (see illustration) and relocated to Fulton Park in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in 1935. Today, a more durable bronze replica stands in the park.
James Fisher, of InventionDemos, www.InventionDemos.com appears to be gathering tips from our surprise bagpipe entertainment for Doug....
Ferguson was born on his family's farm at Growell, near Dromore, County Down. While still in his teens he entered his brother Joe's car and cycle repair business in Belfast as an apprentice, but had soon developed a motor cycle and racing car of his own. In 1909 he made the first powered flight in Ireland in a machine of his own design, flying from Dundrum to Newcastle, Co Down. In 1911 he opened his own car business in May Street, Belfast, later moving to Donegall Square East.
In 1914 he began to sell American tractors but, finding them heavy and dangerous to operate, he designed and built a new plough which was coupled to the tractor in three-point linkage, so that both formed a single unit. This 'Ferguson System', building on the earlier two-point linkage patented in 1919, was patented in 1928. Together with many other inventions, it was to revolutionise farming.
In 1936 he started manufacturing his own tractors, but three years later entered into partnership with Henry Ford; over 300,000 of the new Ford Ferguson tractors were made. Following a lawsuit with Ford's grandson, the partnership was dissolved in 1947.
Ferguson went on to design a light-weight tractor, the TC-20, or "Wee Fergie", which was assembled by Standard Motor Company of Coventry; about half a million of these were made. He later entered another stormy partnership, this time with Massey-Harris of Toronto, to form the Massey-Ferguson Company.
All his life he promoted motor cycle and car racing; his efforts led to the Stormont Road Races Act (1932), which made possible the first Ulster Grand Prix. He also lobbied the R.A.C. to organise the famous Tourist Trophy motor cycle races (1928-36). In later life he applied himself to the design of four-wheel-drive cars. He died in Stow-on-the Wold in October 1960.
Gracias a iniciativa del Comando Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas
Por primera vez y mediante una teleconferencia, los alumnos de la institución educativa Aldea del Niño Beato Junípero Serra de Satipo, ubicada en el Valle de los ríos Apurímac, Ene y Mantaro (VRAEM); y estudiantes del colegio católico Charleston, del estado de Virginia Occidental, Estados Unidos, interactuaron y compartieron su cultura, costumbres y experiencias, gracias a una iniciativa del Comando Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas y la empresa Telefónica del Perú.
El intercambio cultural fue motivo para que los niños y adolescentes de las diferentes comunidades nativas del VRAEM pudieran compartir con sus contemporáneos norteamericanos, sus canciones, danzas y arte en general, a pesar de los miles de kilómetros que separan a ambas naciones.
“La idea es hacer conocer que la cultura de las localidades del VRAEM, como es la asháninca, tiene una riqueza variada, y esta conferencia ha permitido a dos realidades diferentes puedan interactuar y conocerse”, afirmó el jefe del Comando Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas, Almirante Jorge Moscoso Flores.
El colegio Aldea del Niño Beato Junípero Serra está ubicado en Mazamari, provincia de Satipo, departamento de Junín, por lo que el diálogo con los escolares del Charleston se realizó también en lengua asháninca, además del español. Por su parte, los escolares estadounidenses emplearon el inglés, que fue traducido justamente un alumno de referido colegio del VRAEM.
“La verdad ha sido una experiencia muy bonita. Nuestros alumnos han podido manifestar su identidad cultural, su idioma. Eso contribuye a mejorar sus aprendizaje y valorar su cultura”, afirmó, por su parte, la directora de Aldea del Niño Beato Junípero Serra, hermana Hermilia Duarez Montenegro.
De otro lado, en el local de la institución educativa se expuso también un proyecto de la red mundial de laboratorios de fabricación digital Fab Lab Perú, consistente en una propuesta de implementación de un Fab Lab (laboratorio de fabricación digital) para el plantel y que permitirá potenciar las capacidades creativas de los alumnos y de la comunidad en general.
Al respecto, la directora ejecutiva de esta organización, Delia Barriga, sostuvo que el Fab Lab será un espacio en el que los participantes podrán sacar a flote su capacidad de creador, de inventor, al fabricar cualquier tipo de objetos previamente ideados por ellos mismos, mediante la fabricación digital.
Lima, 10 de octubre de 2016
Dr. James Naismith (1861-1939) Almonte, Ontario.
Some concerned citizen supplied a touque and scharf.
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New Haven, Connecticut ● June 26, 2025.
A visit to New Haven's Grove Street Cemetery (227 Grove Street).
Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864).
Founder, The American Journal of Science (1818), the US's longest-running scientific journal.
The orb-topped column is the grave of Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), the "Father of American Geography." Morse was an educator, and Congregational minister. Morse published Geography Made Easy (1784), American Geography (1789), and Universal Geography of the United States (1797). A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Morse was also an early member of both the American Antiquarian Society, and the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Elizabeth Ann Breese Morse (1766-1828).
Their son, Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), was a noted painter and inventor of the single-wire telegraph and Morse Code.
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This is at the rear side of Harlaxton College. One of the building's former owners - Violet VanDer Elst - purchased the manor when it was about to be demolished. She was a self made woman (inventor of the Brushless Shaving cream and certain make up for ladies) and spent her money on the manor. The lions pictured were some of the things she purchased; as well as the magnificent chandellier - which was on its way to Spain and never met it - in the Great Hall.
This man invented the Evolver Bag, which is a multi-purpose bag that can be used for photography, laptop, messenger or travel. I was privileged to have been invited to his party and I was able to capture this precious moment while he was checking his phone messages.
dr. motte, inventor of the love parade, seen at the karneval der kulturen in berlin, germany.
See where the photo was taken at maps.yuan.cc/.
I teach a Lego Mindstorms class at Art Center in Pasadena. This is Andrew, thoughtfully working on his robot.
Not too happy with the focus, but I like the way this came out, anyway. I think it captures a little of the "lego reverie."
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From Wikipedia:
"The phenakistoscope (also spelled phenakistiscope) was an early animation device that used the persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion. The phenakistoscope is the predecessor of the zoetrope.
Although this principle had been recognized by the Greek mathematician Euclid and later in experiments by Newton, it was not until 1829 that this principle became firmly established by the Belgian Joseph Plateau. Plateau planned it in 1829 and invented it in 1832. Later the same year the Austrian Simon von Stampfer invented the stroboscopic disk, a similar machine.
The phenakistoscope use a spinning disc attached vertically on a handle. Around the center of the disc a series of pictures was drawn corresponding to frames of the animation; around its circumference was a series of radial slits. The user would spin the disc and look through the moving slits at the disc's reflection in a mirror.
The scanning of the slits across the reflected images kept them from simply blurring together, so that the user would see a rapid succession of images with the appearance of a motion picture. A variant of it had two discs, one with slits and one with pictures; this was slightly more unwieldy but needed no mirror. Unlike the zoetrope and its successors, the phenakistoscope could only practically be used by one person at a time.The phenakistoscope was only famous for about two years due to the changing of technology."
Available light portrait of Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, iBot, Autosyringe, and now working on a way to provide clean water and power to as many as 1 billion people in third world countries.
I literally had only five minutes to make this picture. Using available light at his house required careful planning and a good vision of what I wanted from the image. Photographed at home in Bedford, New Hampshire. February, 2007. ©Tony Donaldson/Retna Ltd.
Milton Harris, a 1926 chemistry alumnus, earned 35 patents over his career leading research teams that developed coated razor blades, flame- and radiation resistant textiles, wrinkle-free cotton, moth-proof wool, and the forerunner of a hairstyling staple, the perm. He established Oregon State’s first endowed chair, the Milton Harris Chair of Materials Science, in 1984. It's estimated that his discovery of shrink-proofing fabrics saved the U.S. Army $1,500,000 per month during World War II. #OSU150
Ford Madox Brown Murals - John Kay Inventor of the Fly Shuttle AD 1735.
www.victorianweb.org/painting/fmb/paintings/14.html
Manchester Town Hall
"Showing John Kay being smuggled out of his house, wrapped in a wool sheet to escape a mob of machine breakers. On the right, two men and a woman (unfinished) wrap him in the sheet whilst two young girls, further right, look on in distress. Through an open door, behind the girls, a man can be seen waiting with cart and horse ready to take him away. On the left, behind a bare white unfinished panel in shape of the loom, mobsters can be seen through the windows, armed with pitchforks." Art UK
#DidYouKnow: The popsicle was invented by an 11-year-old boy! What a great young #entrepreneur! #JustTheFacts