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Twenty years ago the newly introduced class 60 locomotives were busy with coal trains to Fiddlers Ferry power station, something that has stayed consistent since. However back then the coal came from the Lancashire coalfield pits of Bickershaw and Parkside wheras now its imported and starts its journey by Brush from Liverpool bulk terminal.
September 1991 sees coal sector liveried 60061 'Alexander Graham Bell' head for Fiddlers at Warrington Arpley low level with a train formed of HAA hopper wagons full of black stuff from Lancashire.
The Vail Mansion as seen from the Morristown World War I Memorial
additional views - 110 South Street in Morristown, New Jersey Google Map
Remember these things …. Hard to believe that we used to stand inside these monoliths and talk to people that were far away ……. Latterly they have been used as shelters from the weather, post pub urinal, snogging cubicle, and now a plinth for photographers.They have tried to keep these boxes relevant by enabling them for sms text messaging and e-mail … but the thing in your pocket does that!
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On the significance of his new invention, Alexander Graham Bell said ----
"One day there will be a telephone in every major town in America"
The inscription along the bottom of the large bronze casting reads “To commemorate the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in Brantford 1874”
More information at: Wikipedia
This was a good day for visiting museums and going to
a Celtic Colours concert, as this was a rainy day. The stop in the charming town of Baddeck was fascinating for us and historically important to us, because we didn't know a lot about Alexander Graham Bell's contributions, his interesting life, and his connection to Canada. We ended the day in Sydney on a perfect note by attending a performance, one of the Celtic Colours shows, tickets we were lucky enough to secure the night before - we got the last two seats! We were treated to performances by local and international artists.
In early March 1876 the great inventer and cookie connoisseur Alexshaunder Graham Bell and his trusted friend Mr Pipson wanted to develop an early warning device so they would always be on top of the newest cookie deliveries.
It only took Alexshaunder a few days to design and build a little something that was to revolutionise modern communication forever, the telephone.
On March 10, 1876 he and Mr Pipson were ready to give it a try. They went to different rooms of their lair, carrying one prototype with them. Alexshaunder had the honour of dialling the first phone call in the history of the world… it was engaged… after some yelling Mr Pipson had put the receiver back on the phone and the second attempt was made.
It was a triumph, Alexshaunder uttered the first words ever said on a phone “Mr Pipson… Come here… I want to see you”. Mr Pipson answered with a happy “Pip pip!” and was on his way.
After that whenever a new cookie delivery was nearby, all it needed was a short ring and Alexshaunder Graham Bell and Mr Pipson where the first in line. They were hailed as heroes by every cookie connoisseur in town and soon founded their own phone company and never felt the want of cookies again.
Hooray :-)
"When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
Alexander Graham Bell
Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Dimensions: 25.4 cm x 20.5 cm
Date: prior to 1922
Collection: Scientific Identity: Portraits from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology - As a supplement to the Dibner Library for the History of Science and Technology's collection of written works by scientists, engineers, natural philosophers, and inventors, the library also has a collection of thousands of portraits of these individuals. The portraits come in a variety of formats: drawings, woodcuts, engravings, paintings, and photographs, all collected by donor Bern Dibner. Presented here are a few photos from the collection, from the late 19th and early 20th century.
Persistent URL: www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/imagegalaxy_imageDetail.cfm?id...
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Accession number: SIL14-B2-09
"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing
that we see too late the one that is open.”
~Alexander Graham Bell~
.... The world's first true long distance telephone call, placed between Brantford, Ontario and Paris, Ontario on 10 August 1876. For that long distance call Alexander Graham Bell set up a telephone using telegraph lines at Robert White's Boot and Shoe Store at 90 Grand River Street North in Paris ....
60061 "Alexander Graham Bell" is seen between Low Gill and Beck Foot with 6M19 Jarrow to Stanlow empty tanks. 19/10/96.
Here's the final versions of Martin and Alexander. All is now revealed! They're the iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers I made for poolga and they're available to download now from: poolga.com/en
(Photo Description: Anne Sullivan is reading a book sitting next to Helen Keller who is facing Anne. She has her palm open for the hand signing of the material in the book. Both women wear long lacey dresses of the time.)
Rare YouTube footage: youtu.be/Gv1uLfF35Uw
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.[1][2] The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.
Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her family lived on a homestead, Ivy Green,[3] that Helen's grandfather had built decades earlier.[4] Helen's father, Arthur H. Keller,[5] spent many years as an editor for the Tuscumbia North Alabamian and had served as a captain for the Confederate Army.[4] Helen's paternal grandmother was the second cousin of Robert E. Lee.[6] Helen's mother, Kate Adams,[7] was the daughter of Charles Adams.[8] Though originally from Massachusetts, Charles Adams also fought for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, earning the rank of brigadier-general.[6]
Helen's father's lineage can be traced to Casper Keller, a native of Switzerland.[6][9] Coincidentally, one of Helen's Swiss ancestors was the first teacher for the deaf in Zurich.[6] Helen reflects upon this coincidence in her first autobiography, stating "that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."[6]
Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf; it was not until she was 19 months old that she contracted an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain", which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her deaf and blind. At that time, she was able to communicate somewhat with Martha Washington,[10] the six-year-old daughter of the family cook, who understood her signs; by the age of seven, she had over 60 home signs to communicate with her family.
In 1886, her mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens' American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind woman, Laura Bridgman, dispatched young Helen, accompanied by her father, to seek out Dr. J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore, for advice.[11] He subsequently put them in touch with Alexander Graham Bell, who was working with deaf children at the time. Bell advised the couple to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind, the school where Bridgman had been educated, which was then located in South Boston. Michael Anaganos, the school's director, asked former student Anne Sullivan, herself visually impaired and only 20 years old, to become Keller's instructor. It was the beginning of a 49-year-long relationship, Sullivan evolving into governess and then eventual companion.
Anne Sullivan arrived at Keller's house in March 1887, and immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with "d-o-l-l" for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present. Keller was frustrated, at first, because she did not understand that every object had a word uniquely identifying it. In fact, when Sullivan was trying to teach Keller the word for "mug", Keller became so frustrated she broke the doll.[12] Keller's big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of "water"; she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.
Due to a protruding left eye, Keller was usually photographed in profile. Both her eyes were replaced in adulthood with glass replicas for "medical and cosmetic reasons".[13]
Formal education
Starting in May, 1888, Keller attended the Perkins Institute for the Blind. In 1894, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, and to learn from Sarah Fuller at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf. In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College, where she lived in Briggs Hall, South House. Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife Abbie, paid for her education. In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe, becoming the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. She maintained a correspondence with the Austrian philosopher and pedagogue Wilhelm Jerusalem, who was one of the first to discover her literary talent.[14]
CompanionsAnne Sullivan stayed as a companion to Helen Keller long after she taught her. Anne married John Macy in 1905, and her health started failing around 1914. Polly Thompson was hired to keep house. She was a young woman from Scotland who had no experience with deaf or blind people. She progressed to working as a secretary as well, and eventually became a constant companion to Keller.[15]
Keller moved to Forest Hills, Queens, together with Anne and John, and used the house as a base for her efforts on behalf of the American Foundation for the Blind.[16]
After Sullivan died in 1936, Keller and Thompson moved to Connecticut. They traveled worldwide and raised funds for the blind. Thompson had a stroke in 1957 from which she never fully recovered, and died in 1960.[1]
Winnie Corbally, a nurse who was originally brought in to care for Thompson in 1957, stayed on after her death and was Keller's companion for the rest of her life.[1]
Circa 1790. 3-storey basement and attic, 3-bay classical tenements. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. V-jointed rustication at ground; eaves cornice. Arched doorways with radial fanlights. Cast-iron spearhead railings and wrought-iron lamp standards.
A significant surviving part of the original fabric of Edinburgh's New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. South Charlotte Street is important for its contribution to the setting of Robert Adam’s Charlotte Square. Alexander Graham Bell was born at No 16 South Charlotte Street on the 3rd March 1847. St Cuthbert’s Church terminates the street.
Look, it's that same idea again but better executed this time! Really laboured over this one but hopefully that doesn't come across to obviously...
69/365
Today was pretty fabulous as far as work Fridays go. Schnookie had a nice easy day with her boss out of the country. I knocked off the last of string of four big presentations in four days, and was able to take it easy in the afternoon after an exhausting week. Then it was time for glorious Friday naps. *Then* it was time for one of those amazing "isn't being an adult awesome?!" evenings of take-out Chinese and the early stages of an Assassin's Creed game. Life is grander than grand! To commemorate it (and to not take any precious time away from helping Charles Darwin take out a poisonous snake-oil distillery) I snapped this stupid iphone shot instead of taking a good photo. And then, because I can, I hipster'ed it up in VSCO.
-- Pk.
Built by Alexander Laing, 1777. This late 18th century former school is notable for its largely externally unaltered entrance elevation and fine distinctive pedimented entrance porch. The building is in the Classical style and has the simple detailing common to Classical buildings in Edinburgh at the time. The building forms a critical part of the complex of educational buildings in the area. Now owned by the University of Edinburgh, this part of the city was the heart of the Edinburgh medical and surgical establishment in the 18th and 19th centuries. Formerly The Old Royal High School, famous as being the school of Sir Walter Scott, until the new school was built (by Thomas Hamilton 1826-29) on Regent Road.
The Royal High School in Edinburgh has a long tradition dating to 1128.
The Royal High School's former pupils include:
- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone
- Sir Walter Scott, novelist
- James Naysmith, inventor of steam engines
- Ronnie Corbett, comedian
Transrail 60061 "Alexander Graham Bell" with a train Tiphook Rail PIA hoppers approaches Chesterfield station from the north - c.12/1995.
The actual date the image was made is unknown; the indication given is based on the film processing date imprinted on the original slide.
This stamp designer did a good job, so lets look closely at the stamp.
There is an angel standing on the earth and holding a laurel wreath over the head of AG Bell. Telephone poles with wires traverse the celestial heights.
Did you know that the Bible is said to have prophesies concerning the invention of the telegraph? It is called "lightenings". There is no question that electronic information systems have made our earth a smaller place. Perhaps that is why the designer shows a venerated AG Bell. Still, an angel perched atop the earth holding a laurel wreath over his head might be a little more glory than the average man could handle. On the other hand where would we be without rapid electronic communication? We live in a more complex world and I am grateful to AG Bell for his pioneering work in electronic communication.
Did you know that the first message over the telegraph was "What hath God wrought!"
He was born in Scotland, moved to London and then Canada where he developed and patented the first working telephone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell
Couple of pages from the crazybook...working on (to be honest labouring over) two iPhone wallpapers for poolga. There's definitely something in the idea it's just getting to a resolution now. Nearly there...
Title
•Alexander Graham Bell at the opening of the long-distance line from New York to Chicago
Summary
•Alexander Graham Bell seated at table, speaking into telephone while a group of men watch.
Created / Published
•[1892 Oct. 18, printed later]
Headings
•- Bell, Alexander Graham,--1847-1922
•- Telephone industry--1890-1900
•- Telephones--1890-1900
Notes
•- Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress).
•- Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Business & Science section.
•- Annenberg batch 14
Digital Id
•ppmsca 53147 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.53147
•ppmsc 02854 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.02854
Library of Congress Control Number
•00650383
LCCN Permalink
•https://lccn.loc.gov/00650383
(Photo Description: Thomas Gallaudet stands in dark suit with hand making a sign in front of his body. He has thinning hair and a grey mustache)
Gallaudet University is named after Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, who was born is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1787. Mr. Gallaudet was a brilliant student and entered Yale University at the age of 14. He graduated from Yale first in his class three years later. Having deep Protestant roots, Mr. Gallaudet decided to join the ministry. Reverend Gallaudet meet Dr. Mason Cogswell and his daughter Alice. The child was deaf and Mr. Gallaudet and the girls father were concerned about the child’s education. Dr. Cogswell persuaded Mr. Gallaudet to travel to England and study their methods of teaching deaf students. He was very pleased with his findings and traveled home with a companion and the two started the first school for the deaf, the American School for the Deaf. Alice was one of the first students and the school still educates today.
The University began when Amos Kendall donated two acres of his land in Washington D.C. for deaf and blind students that were seeking aide. Mr. Kendall became involved with the children and petitioned the court to make them his wards. Kendall received aide from the government and began the Columbia Institute for the Instruction for the Deaf and Dumb. He made Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet’s son, Edward Miner Gallaudet, the superintendent of the school. At the turn of the 20th century Gallaudet University briefly shifted to more technical fields of study. However, when Dr. Percival Hall became the second president of Gallaudet University he made the curriculum more liberal. In 1954, by an act of Congress, the Institution’s name was changed to Gallaudet College. The 1970’s continued as a period of growth for the University. The school was being effected by laws passed by the government that involved disabled individuals. Gallaudet University expanded its program to meet the demands of the new laws.
Perhaps the event that put Gallaudet University on the map and many individuals remember as the civil rights movement for the deaf was the events that started on March 9, 1988. The board of trustees at Gallaudet University announced that the seventh president was going to be a hearing person. Angry with the decision many students, faculty, alumni, and staff shut down the campus. The protests lasted a week until all the demands of the protestors were met. The protestors terms were that a deaf person must be selected as president, Jane Spilman step down as the chairperson of the board of trustees, deaf people must have a 51% majority on the board, and there would be no reprisals against any student and employee involved in the protest. Dr. I. King Jordan was selected the eighth and first deaf president. The incident proves that deaf people can band together effectively for a common cause and succeed.
Gallaudet University plays a crucial role in the lives of deaf and hard of hearing people everywhere. The school has become a safe haven for students with a hearing disability because they learn and grow with other students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Gallaudet may be remembered by the world because of the events of March 9, 1988 but the students that graduate from the University will always know it as their alma mater.
Bibliography
Christiansen, John B. & Barnartt, Sharon N.(1995)Deaf President Now! Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 1995.
Former EWS / BR ( Brush / Mirrlees Blackstone ) Type 5 Class 60 Co-Co's, 60 008, 60 009, 60 038, 60 061, 60 064, 60 070, 60 080, 60 090 stored, awaiting refurbishment / cannibalisation by Wabtec : Some will finally achieve mainline running again, others may never be seen again !
One of two telephones used by Alexander Graham Bell in a demonstration that took place between Boston and Salem, Massachusetts on November 26, 1876. Critical features are the iron diaphragm (seen as a black circular disc mounted on the vertical wooden support), two electromagnets (seen in white, facing the diaphragm) and a horseshoe permanent magnet (lying horizontal, pressed against the electromagnets).
When used as a transmitter, sound waves at the mouthpiece cause the diaphragm to move, inducing a fluctuating current in the electromagnets. This current is conducted over wires to a similar instrument, acting as a receiver. There, the fluctuating current in the electromagnets causes the diaphragm to move, producing air vibrations that can be heard by the ear. This was a marginal arrangement, but it worked well enough to be employed in the first commercial services in 1877. The magneto receiver continued to be used, but the transmitters were soon replaced by a carbon variable-resistance device designed by Francis Blake and based on a principle patented by Thomas Edison.
Object Name
telephone
box telephone
date made
1876
used in a demonstration
1876
patentor
Edison, Thomas A.
inventor
Bell, Alexander Graham
Blake, Jr., Francis
maker
Bell, Alexander Graham
Physical Description
wood (parts material)
iron (magnet material)
brass (hardware material)
mica (diaphram material)
Measurements
overall: 6 1/4 in x 7 1/2 in x 12 1/2 in; 15.875 cm x 19.05 cm x 31.75 cm
Associated Place
United States: Massachusetts, Salem
United States: Massachusetts, Boston
ID Number
EM*308214
catalog number
308214
accession number
70856
subject
Telephone
Magnet
Communications
American Stories exhibit
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American Stories exhibit
Exhibition
American Stories
Data Source
National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Credit Line
from American Telephone & Telegraph Company
This priceless dated around 1917 was salvaged from the walls of the home William Both built on the corner of Hwy #41 and Glastonbury Road in Northbrook (now the REMAX office). Oftentimes board siding was covered on the inside walls with newspaper, catalogues or anything to fill the cracks and act as insulation.
This pricelist has a connection to Northbrook as Stromberg-Carlson was probably the company that supplied the early telephone equipment to the area.
Stromberg-Carlson was a telecommunications equipment and electronics manufacturing company in the US formed in 1894 as a partnership by Alfred Stromberg and Androv Carlson. It was one of five companies that controlled the national supply of telephone equipment until after WWII. In 1894, Alexander Graham Bell's patent for the telephone expired. Stromberg and Carlson, Chicago employees of the American Bell Telephone Company (later AT&T), each invested $500 to establish a firm to manufacture equipment, primarily subscriber sets, for sale to independent telephone companies.
In the case of Northbrook, James Vogen Telephone was the first telephone company who likely purchased equipment from Stromberg-Carlson. Ellery Thompson purchased the company from James (Jimmy) Vogen and created the Kaladar & Northern Telephone System.
Part of the Ellery Thompson Collection
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At the top is a gramophone from 1888. German immigrant Emile Berliner patented the first commercially successful disk record and the machine on which to play it.
On the bottom left is a patent model from 1879 by Margaret Knight, one of the few women applying for U.S. patents in the 1880s. Paper bags are still folded and pasted with machinery based on the concept she developed for this model.
On the bottom center is a telphone prototype created by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. In trying to improve the telegraph by transmitting the human voice over wires, he transformed communication technology.
On the bottom right is a lightbulb from 1879. Thomas Edison first demonstrated his version of electric lighting using a carbon-filament bulb like this one.
The National Museum of American History (NMAH), administered by the Smithsonian Institute, collects, preserves and displays American heritage in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific and military history. The museum, which first opened in 1964 as the Museum of History and Technology, is located on the National Mall in one of the last structures designed by McKim, Mead & White. It was renamed in 1980, and closed for a 2-year, $85 million renovation by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP from 2006 to 2008.
The Smithsonian Institution, an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its shops and its magazines, was established in 1846. Although concentrated in Washington DC, its collection of over 136 million items is spread through 19 museums, a zoo, and nine research centers from New York to Panama.
The Bell System (aka Ma Bell) refers to popular names used to described a group of companies that operated initial telephone services in the US. In 1877, the American Bell Telephone Company, named after Alexander Graham Bell, opened the first telephone exchange in New Haven, CT. Within a few years local exchange companies were established in every major city in the US. Use of the Bell System name initially referred to those early telephone franchises.
In 1899, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) acquired the assets of the American Bell Telephone Company. Originally AT&T was created to make long distance calls between New York and Chicago and beyond. AT&T became the parent of American Bell because regulatory and tax rules were leaner in New York then in Boston where American Bell was headquartered. Later, the Bell System and its moniker "Ma Bell" became a term that referred generally to all AT&T companies of which there were four major divisions;
• AT&T Long Lines providing long lines to interconnect local exchanges and
long distance calling services.
• Western Electric Company Bell's equipment manufacturing arm,
• Bell Labs conducting research and development for AT&T.
• Bell operating companies providing local exchange telephone services.
In 1913, under AT&T ownership the Bell System became a government sanctioned monopoly regulated by the US Federal Communications Commission. Proliferation of the telephone allowed the company to become the largest corporation in the world until its divestment by the US Department of Justice in 1984, at which time the Bell System ceased to exist.
Source Wikipedia article: Bell System
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Alexander Graham Bell (UCL Phonics 1868) is credited with the invention of the telephone.
Bell and his associates originally offered to sell the patent for the telephone to Western Union for $100,000.
The company declined, only to offer $25 million two years later. By then, Bell was rich and no longer wished to sell the patent.
Lewis Howard Latimer, 1848-1928
African American inventor and patent draftsman. He worked with Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison and invented a modification to the process for making carbon filaments aimed to reduce breakages. While at Edison, Latimer wrote the first book on electric lighting.
As a son of parents who escaped slavery, he had a long and impressive career.
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