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How the hull of the HD4 was put together is displayed in this cross section of the hull showing materials and construction frame. planking sealer and cross wires (outside) and then canvas glued to planking and sealed with several layers of paint. simple and stunningly accurate.
Alexander Graham Bell Lab artifacts. Inside the lobby of the Verizon Building fronting the south side of Post Office Square. The lab was removed from 109 Court Street. ( see below, new location ) Some say Bell stole the key idea behind the invention of the telephone from Elisha Gray.
Artifacts recovered from Alexander Graham Bell’s Laboratory in Boston, now on display just off the lobby in the Verizon Building, Boston.
The Alexander Graham Bell Boston lab is long gone, but Verizon has them on display. There is also an impressive 360 degree mural depicting communications history in the lobby, though photography is forbidden in the lobby, they have a free color reproduction for those interested. Bell was very inventive but many folks think the phone was the invention of Elisha Gray, or Antonio Meucci but you knew that.
This collection is now located @
JFK Buildings at City Hall Plaza
(Opposite 1 Center Plaza)
1 Center Plaza, Boston, MA 02108
The 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival launched with the UK premiere of Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist, adapted from an unproduced Jacques Tati script. Chomet has created an astonishing, magical love letter to Edinburgh after moving here in 2004. The staggering, hand-drawn animation, a world away from recent flash-bang 3D extravaganzas evokes the city in the late 50's. The effort and care demonstrated by Chomet and his team of extraordinary animators truly brings the city to life and highlights how the city can inspire and delight visitors from all over the world.
We’ve had a look through our images in Capital collections
in search of the locations which inspired and were used in Chomet's extraordinary film.
Enter the world of The Illusionist!
The Headquarters of BT Scotland.
Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh in 1847, is credited with inventing the first Telephone.
In 1888, Bell became one of the founding members of the National Geographic Society.
Oh...and I work in this building when in Edinburgh :)
I'm sure that showing Mr. Bell a cellphone will have no adverse effects on the space-time continuum. I wonder how the reception is like in 1885.
This shot was done for FGR invading the time travellers' photo album. Discussion thread can be found here.
The time traveller is my co-worker, who is always game for a photoshoot. Thanks!
The layout of the museum was deceiving since the building has some underground wings. this area is a loft overlooking the room buit to house the HD4.
History
The world’s first talking ATM for the blind was an NCR machine unveiled by the Royal Bank of Canada on October 22, 1997 at a bank branch on the corner of Bank Street and Queen Street in Ottawa, Ontario. The talking ATM was a result of concerns Chris and Marie Stark, two blind customers, raised with the bank beginning in 1984. Their concerns turned into a discrimination complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission in 1991.[1] The machine was manufactured by NCR and adapted by Ottawa based T-Base Communications at a cost of about $500,000 Canadian dollars.[2]
UsageA user plugs a standard headset into the jack, and can hear instructions such as "press 1 for withdrawal", "press 2 for deposit." There is an audible orientation for first time users, and audible information describing the location of features such as the number keypad, deposit slot, and card slot.[3]
Talking ATMs in the USThe first public actions in the United States to achieve ATM access for the blind occurred in June 1999. On June 3, Mellon Bank and PNC Bank were sued in federal courts in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh respectively.[10] On June 25, 1999, Wells Fargo became the first major bank in the United States to commit to installing talking ATMs. In a legal settlement with blind community leaders, the bank agreed to install a talking ATM at all of its 1,500 ATM locations in California. The company has subsequently installed talking ATMs at all ATM locations in all states.[11] In July 1999, Citibank agreed to pilot five talking ATMs in and around San Francisco and Los Angeles. The Citibank machine represented a unique engineering and research challenge as it uses a touch screen interface and has no function keys to offer access to the blind. All Citibank locations with this kind of machine have been adapted with talking functionality.[12]
The first talking ATM in the United States was a Diebold machine installed on October 1, 1999 in San Francisco’s City Hall by the San Francisco Federal Credit Union. Like the Royal Bank machine, it was adapted by T-Base Communications.[13] In March 2000, Bank of America became the first financial institution to commit to installing a talking ATM at all of its ATM locations nationwide. A legal settlement called for the installation of hundreds of machines with later negotiations for a schedule for the remainder.
By 2005 there were approximately 30,000 Talking ATMs in the United States
60061 “Alexander Graham Bell” at Hatherley, Cheltenham with 6E41 from Westerleigh to Lindsey. 6th August 2009.
(Photo Description: Mr. Owens, seated in a wheelchair smiles toward the camera. He appears to be in an airport with a skycap behind his chair and his suit hanging bag on his lap. He is dressed in a fedora and dark suit.)
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the sprints and the long jump. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump, and as part of the 4x100 meter relay team. He was the most successful athlete at the 1936 Summer Olympics, a victory more poignant and often noted because Adolf Hitler had intended the 1936 games to showcase his Aryan ideals and prowess. He has the Jesse Owens Award accolade named after him in honor of his significant career. After smoking for 35 years, Owens contracted lung cancer. He died from the disease at age 66 in Tucson, Arizona in 1980. He is buried in Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago. A few months before his death, Owens had tried unsuccessfully to convince President Jimmy Carter not to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics. He argued that the Olympic ideal was to be a time-out from war and above politics.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sheep*
* but were afraid to ask. Fear not. There’s a whole lot you probably don’t know about sheep. And with the coming of the Chinese New Year of the Sheep, The Chinese Quest wants to you know everything there is to know about Sheep.
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On Monday January 26th, 2015, approximately 25 history buffs and social media users gathered at the National Museum of American History for the #HearHistory Tweetup. They went on a tour of the exhibition, "Hear My Voice: Alexander Graham Bell and the Origins of Recorded Sound," with the team that made the historic sounds in the recordings available to modern ears: curator Carlene Stephens, Library of Congress digital conservation specialist Peter Alyea, and Lawrence Berkely National Lab scientists Carl Haber and Earl Cornell.
On Monday January 26th, 2015, approximately 25 history buffs and social media users gathered at the National Museum of American History for the #HearHistory Tweetup. They went on a tour of the exhibition, "Hear My Voice: Alexander Graham Bell and the Origins of Recorded Sound," with the team that made the historic sounds in the recordings available to modern ears: curator Carlene Stephens, Library of Congress digital conservation specialist Peter Alyea, and Lawrence Berkely National Lab scientists Carl Haber and Earl Cornell.
( Photo Description: Standing next to a Model T Ford, Henry Ford has on a long black trench coat with both hands in the coat pockets, wearing a bowl shaped hat. He leans on his right foot towards the car. There are several onlookers in the background.)
A automobile maker with dyslexia.
Henry Ford laid the foundation for disabled veterans to be welcomed as employees of Ford Motor Company. Early in the company's history, he saw to it that people with disabilities were given the chance to prove themselves, and many of them became loyal and productive employees.
Finding a Place for Returning Veterans
Ford’s philosophy of inclusion was shared by his grandson, Henry Ford II. Near the end of World War II, and especially in its aftermath, numerous wounded and disabled veterans were flooding back into the workforce. Henry Ford II understood that persons with disabilities, including returning veterans, wanted and deserved an equal chance to work.
As had been done in the early days, Henry Ford II made efforts to integrate returning veterans into the workplace. This meant accommodating blind persons and providing specially modified equipment for those who had lost limbs, for example.
A Legacy of Inclusion
Even before World War II, Ford Motor Company was known as one that was more interested in a prospective employee's abilities than any disabilities the person might have. In 1937, an article in Ford News reported that the company had "11,632 men in various stages of disability earning full pay," and the article made a point of saying that "they give full value for their wages."
The company's leadership in the employment of persons with disabilities continued through the years. In the 1970s, Henry Ford II was a founding member of the National Business and Disability Council, long before the U.S. government enacted laws requiring equal opportunity for persons with disabilities.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Museo virtual interactivo de la poética del hábitat inteligente, exposiciones didácticas de las otras visiones del hábitar.
Exhibiciones de autores y tipologías que rompen e inauguran paradigmas.
(Photo Description: A nurse in a white gown tend to soldiers on an open air wooden porch; their beds separated only by hanging sheets.)
World War I did not cause the flu, but the close troop quarters and massive troop movements hastened the pandemic and probably both increased transmission and augmented mutation; it may also have increased the lethality of the virus. Some speculate that the soldiers' immune systems were weakened by malnourishment, as well as the stresses of combat and chemical attacks, increasing their susceptibility.[12] Andrew Price-Smith has made the controversial argument that the virus helped tip the balance of power in the latter days of the war towards the Allied cause. He provides data that the viral waves hit the Central Powers before they hit the Allied powers, and that both morbidity and mortality in Germany and Austria were considerably higher than in Britain and France.[13]
A large factor in the worldwide occurrence of this flu was increased travel. Modern transportation systems made it easier for soldiers, sailors, and civilian travelers to spread the disease.
In the United States, the disease was first observed at Haskell County, Kansas, in January 1918. On 4 March 1918, company cook Albert Gitchell reported sick at Fort Riley, Kansas. Within days, 522 men at the camp had reported sick.[14] By March 11, 1918 the virus had reached Queens, New York.[15]
In August 1918, a more virulent strain appeared simultaneously in Brest, France, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and in the U.S. at Boston, Massachusetts. The Allies of World War I came to call it the Spanish flu, primarily because the pandemic received greater press attention after it moved from France to Spain in November 1918. Spain was not involved in the war and had not imposed wartime censorship.[16
This image appeared in the 2013 La Guardia and Wagner Archives calendar Inventing the Future: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in America, courtesy of the Library of Congress. For more images from the Archives' calendar and collections go to www.laguardiawagnerarchive.lagcc.cuny.edu
On Monday January 26th, 2015, approximately 25 history buffs and social media users gathered at the National Museum of American History for the #HearHistory Tweetup. They went on a tour of the exhibition, "Hear My Voice: Alexander Graham Bell and the Origins of Recorded Sound," with the team that made the historic sounds in the recordings available to modern ears: curator Carlene Stephens, Library of Congress digital conservation specialist Peter Alyea, and Lawrence Berkely National Lab scientists Carl Haber and Earl Cornell.