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It took a bit of work for him to tolerate wearing a cardboard box... he never did wear the helmet. And as a robot inventor and repair person, she took great pleasure in tell him what to do (the remote control didn't work... LOL).
This is my dear Emilie who always does the most inventive things. When her remote broke she made herself a new one. It worked perfectly well and exercised her arms at the same time. I thought you deserved a laugh today and perhaps Kevin Dooley could use it in his lateral thinking classes? Please forgive the quality it was taken a couple of years ago and I was using my happy snapper.
Sorry but the song of the day is still Johnny Clegg with his blue sky
On starry nights, the inventor likes to relax on his self-built deck on the roof and chart the stars using his big telescope.
Memorial stone at Raukkan Aboriginal Community for noted Aborginal inventor , ministr, writer and philospher Daivd Unaipon who is depicted on the Australian $50 note. Raukkan was Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission. It is near Meningie in South Australia.
The origin of the Ngarrindjeri Mission of the AFA goes back to the drive of George Taplin, the founding missionary, and the need for the mission because of destruction of the traditional fishing and hunting grounds of the Ngarrindjeri people. The Ngarrindjeri occupied the lands along the Coorong from Kingston, around the two lakes and up the Murray to where Murray Bridge now stands, and across the bottom of Fleurieu Peninsula to Cape Jervis. These lands were all areas of Special Surveys in 1839 and early white settlement. The close access to fresh water attracted pastoralists and where there were not Special Surveys the lands were granted to white pastoralists by annual and later 14 year leases. As one writer, Graham Jenkins, has claimed in his history of the lower lakes, the Ngarrindjeri were conquered by whites and then dispossessed of their lands and food sources. The Aboriginal Friends’ Association was formed in 1857 from various Protestant denominations but with a strong Anglican backing. They wanted to assist with the physical living conditions of Aboriginal people as well as introducing them to Christianity. Welfare was their primary aim. The believed Aboriginal people deserved more than blankets and meagre government food rations. The AFA called for reports and were told that 30 to 40 Aboriginal children in Goolwa from the Ngarrindjeri were in desperate need of schooling. Parliament offered a grant of £500 for the establishment of a school in the vicinity of Goolwa. In 1859 the new AFA committee agreed to appoint an agent to find the best location for the school. George Taplin, a school teacher of Goolwa, was appointed to this role of finding a suitable location and then to set up a mission and school. Taplin had been concerned about Aboriginal welfare for some years. He relished his new position. Taplin selected a spot at Point McLeay (McLeay was second in charge of the Charles Sturt expedition of 1830 along the Murray). To the Ngarrindjeri this spot was called Raukkan hence the name of the Aboriginal Community here today.
The leaseholder of land adjoining Raukkan was John Baker of Morialta. He objected to Taplin’s choice as an Aboriginal Mission there would be “prejudicial to his interests” as the government grant for the Mission was coming out of his leasehold of Narrung station. As a state politician he initiated the first Royal Commission by an SA government into the conditions and welfare of Aboriginal people. He had hoped to have Taplin and the AFA ousted from his land. But this was not the outcome of the Royal Commission which looked at issues across SA, not just around the lower lakes, and the Commission found no reason to relocate the Taplin Mission. In one sense Baker had one justifiable point- the Raukkan Mission had insufficient land to provide a satisfactory livelihood for the Aboriginal residents. They could fish the lakes and the Coorong, they could work on the pastoral properties of Poltalloch and Campbell Park, they could grow their own vegetables, but they had insufficient land to crop or to pasture sheep or cattle on in terms of income. The land at Raukkan might have provided for one family, not dozens. This lack of land and income was an ongoing problem with the Mission. But Baker’s other claims that Taplin only wanted the salary and was not interested in aboriginal welfare, that he was lazy, and that he bribed the Ngarrindjeri to attend church were all patently false.
Taplin set to work to establish a school at Raukkan, then some cottages for the Aboriginal people, as well as one for his own family, and the church, depicted our $50 note which opened in 1869. Taplin learnt Ngarrindjeri language, recorded it, wrote many essays and published books on the Aborigines of South Australia. He died in 1879 when one of his sons took over as superintendent of the Mission. George Taplin was revered and respected by the Ngarrindjeri people. He tried to establish a commercial fishing operation for the Ngarrindjeri, he organised football and cricket matches with local white teams, he assisted with the employment of Aboriginal people on the nearby great stations, and the community ran a business washing wool for the Bowman brothers’ estates. The school was his first priority and the school room opened in 1860. Taplin is especially remembered for his Ngarrindjeri translations of books from the Bible which are unique in Australia. By the time Taplin died Raukkan had about 1,700 acres of land, the size of a normal farm. It began in 1860 with a lease from the government of just 750 acres. In 1878 the AFA got a leasehold block along the Coorong for sheep grazing, holidays and fishing. The Raukkan Mission under the guidance of the AFA and strong educationists like George Taplin produced three well known Aboriginal preachers and an outstanding writer, scientist and inventor, David Unaipon who is also depicted on our $50 note. David (1872-1967) was born on the mission, died in Tailem Bend and was buried back in Raukkan. In 1909 he developed and patented a new form of shearing cutters. He was an internationally recognised expert in ballistics although he had no formal university education. He patented nine inventions including a centrifugal motor. He did research at the University of Adelaide although he was not employed there. He mainly got his income from preaching and writing.
The Raukkan Mission was taken over from the AFA in 1916 by the state government which then assumed full control. It was then known as Point McLeay Aboriginal Reserve and over the years it acquired some additional land but never sufficient for a good income for the Reserve. In 1974 the Raukkan lands were handed over to the Ngarrindjeri people and they changed the Reserve name to Raukkan Aboriginal Community in 1982. The town has memorial cairns to George Taplin, Captain Charles Sturt and David Unaipon. The old church has good stained glass windows and an interesting interior with no central church aisle which is most unusual. George Taplin’s cottage from the 1860s is now the Raukkan Gallery and museu
This photograph is from the Swan Collection of Tyne & Wear Museums, held at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was a British Physicist, Chemist and Inventor. Swan lived at Underhill, on Kells Lane North in Low Fell, Gateshead. It was here that he conducted most of his experiments in the large conservatory.
His investigations in electro-chemistry led to the construction of a motor electric meter, an electric fire-damp detector, a miners' electric safety lamp. Most importantly, Swan was also a pioneer in photographic procedures such as carbon printing.
It was Swan's demonstration of the light bulb at a lecture in Newcastle upon Tyne on 18 December 1878, before its later development by the American Thomas Edison that he is most famous for. Swan and Edison later collaborated in their work with the incandescent light bulb in 1883, when they founded the Edison & Swan United Electric Light Company, otherwise known as 'Ediswan.'
Many items held at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums relating to Joseph Swan offer an amazing insight in to his work as an inventor and his place in the History of Scientific progression. This set offers a small selection from these collections.
This set has been produced in support of the British Science Festival 2013, held in Newcastle upon Tyne. You can find more information on the Festival here
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The King Sejong Statue was erected at the center of Gwanghwamun Square on Hangeul Day (October 9) of 2009. Sitting with a gentle smile on his face and a book in his hand, the bronze statue of 9.5m in height celebrates the King and his great achievements.
In front of the statue lie a celestial globe, a rain gauge, and a sundial, all of which King Sejong invented himself during his reign. Behind the statue, there are six columns with golden carvings depicting the King's major accomplishments, as well as an underground passage to the 'Sejong's Story' exhibition hall. Surrounding the statue, on the edges of the Square, is the 'Waterway of History,' a stream flowing on tiles with inscriptions of Korean history. (english.visitkorea.or.kr)
“Mon Repos” – Bert Hinkler’s house
This building once sat over 16,000 kilometres away amongst the oak trees of Thornhill Estate in Sholing, Southampton, England.
Built in 1925, it was named “Mon Repos” after the Bundaberg beach where the young Bert Hinkler tested his homemade gliders.
Bert Hinkler shared “Mon Repos” with his partner Nance Jarvis from 1925 until his death in 1933.
Close to Bert’s workplace, the AV Roe Experimental Works at Hamble, “Mon Repos” became a haven for his many friends and colleagues from the aviation industry.
Bert planned most of his record-breaking solo flights in the living room. He used the secluded fields around the original site to carry out tests on the “Ibis”, the amphibious aircraft he designed and built with Roland Bound in 1929.
After Bert died, Nance continued to live in the house until 1952 when she emigrated to South Africa. It then became the property of the Southampton City Council and home to a number of families. In 1982 “Mon Repos” was listed for demolition to make way for a block of retirement units.
Bundaberg resident and long-time Hinkler admirer Lex Rowland became concerned that such an historic building might be destroyed. In response to a national advertisement for projects to support the Australian bicentenary celebrations Lex came up with a plan to relocate the house to Bundaberg, Hinkler’s birthplace, and create a museum in Hinkler’s honour.
Such an undertaking had only been attempted once before in Australia’s history, the relocation of Captain Cook’s cottage from England to Melbourne in 1934. However, community support for the proposal showed this was a building of immense national interest.
With only weeks remaining to meet the Southampton City Council’s demolition deadlines, the Bundaberg Bicentennial Committee appointed a subcommittee to plan the relocation.
In May 1983 the three-man dismantling team set off for the United Kingdom to effect the brick by brick pull down of “Mon Repos” house. A month later, the house was shipped to Australia in two 20 tonne containers.
Here in the grounds of the newly-created Bundaberg Botanic Gardens “Mon Repos” was painstakingly rebuilt under the control of Site Manager, A E Bent, and the Rotary Club of East Bundaberg with S C Lohse and J A Rowland assisting.
Hinkler House Memorial Museum opened on 16 June 1984. The adjoining Hinkler Hall of Aviation opened on 8 December 2008.
Hinkler House Memorial Museum gratefully acknowledges the support of the Committee and the loyal group of friends and volunteers who made the project possible. [Ref: Plaque at Mon Repos]
*Squadron Leader H J L Hinkler, AFC DSM.
Herbert John Louis (Bert) Hinkler, chief test pilot at the Hamble Experimental Establishment of A V Roe & Co, and world-renowned long distance aviator and inventor.
His pioneering solo flights in light aeroplanes included England to Australia (1928) and Canada to England, via Brazil and West Africa (1931).
Bert Hinkler was born at Bundaberg, Queensland, on 8 December 1892, and lost his life in an aircraft crash on Mount Pratomagno, Italy, on 7 January 1933, while on a flight to Australia. [Ref: Plaque in Botanic Garden]
In 1933 Hinkler left Heathrow on 7 January in his Puss Moth, on a flight to Australia and disappeared. The crashed plane and Hinkler’s body were found on the northern slopes of Pratomagno in the Apennines between Florence and Arezzo, Italy, on 27 April. He had survived the crash and died outside the wreckage. On Mussolini’s orders he was buried in Florence with full military honours. [Ref: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, (MUP) 1983 article by E P Wixted]
HINKLER’S DARING EXPLOITS
The following brief account of Lieutenant Bert Hinkler's career appeared in the March issue of the “Aircraft," published in Sydney:-
From England, unheralded, after an absence of seven years, Mr Bert Hinkler landed in Sydney on March 18. With him is the 35 hp (Green) Avro "Baby''— G-EACQ — in which he last year made the brilliant non-stop flight of 650 miles from London to Turin, and which, a few weeks later, and without overhaul, he piloted to second place in the London Aerial Derby.
These two achievements should have brought Australia's leading newspaper men scurrying down to the wharf as soon as his uncommon (but now familiar) name appeared in the “Ascanius” passenger-list. One would have thought so, at any rate. But Hinkler, apparently, is destined to be "without honour in his own country." At the time of writing he has been back six days and no reference to his presence in our midst has yet been published in any Australian paper. He expects to leave Sydney at the end of the month, or early in April, but before returning to his wife in England he will call upon his parents in Bundaberg, Queensland, and say, "Bertie's come home from the war!”
Of diminutive build, the young Queenslander is a veritable dynamo of energy and of almost inexhaustible resource. Whether it be a flight from Australia to New Zealand, a non-stop to Melbourne or Brisbane or any other stunt. On Friday, March 18, as soon as the "Ascanius" had docked, he made a bee-line for Union House, introduced himself, to the Avro agents (A A & E C Ltd), announced that the "Baby" was on board and asked for workshop accommodation at Mascot, which was readily given. Informed that the Royal Agricultural Show would open on the following Monday and that the Avro people would exhibit, he hastened back to the wharf, located the case, got it out of the hold and carted down to Mascot the same afternoon. During the weekend he entirely reassembled the historic machine and bright and early on opening day had the "Baby" on view at the A A & E Co's stand. There the writer found him, chatting with Messrs Nigel Love and W E ("Billy") Hart [both pioneer aviators].
“For sheer perserverance” remarked the last-named member of the party, “Bert is hard to beat. I remember him calling at my office in Sydney about nine or ten years ago, when I was doing a little flying on my own. He had made a special journey all the way from Bundaberg, where he had been experimenting with gliders, and literally begged me to give him a job. Eventually I got "Wizard” Stone [A B Stone, American aviator] to take him as a mechanic. They were together for some time.”
Hinkler said: "I just made my way to England and prowled around the drome at Kingston, sticky-beaking into this, that and the other, until at last Tom Sopwith realised that it would be less trouble to find me a job in his factory than to hunt me off the premises day after day. So he signed me on as a mechanic.”
On the outbreak of war, youth and inches notwithstanding, he was accepted by the RNAS — chiefly on Mr Sopwith's strong recommendation—and September 1914 found him a full-fledged second-class air-mechanic (2/ a day) attached to the Coast Defence Station at Whitley Bay, Northumberland. While there the first Zeppelin ever sighted by a British aeroplane was seen over the coast, and Hinkler enjoys the distinction of being the Observer in an 80-Gnome "Bristol” that was sent up to attack her. The raider immediately headed for the Fatherland, chased by the "Bristol' until some thirty miles out to sea when her pursuer lost their bearings in a cloudbank. Hinkler on this occasion was armed with nothing more formidable than an old rifle and a couple of signalling rockets.
Transferred to France early in l9l6, he took part in the first long-distance air raids on German towns along the Saar Valley: later, from the Dunkirk base, he was engaged in several night bombing raids, on a Handley Page 0/400. Next (on D H 4's) came a series of day-bombing excursions, the objective being a chain of enemy aerodromes scattered throughout Belgium.
In his leisure he patented the Hinkler Double Lewis Gun and got it generally adopted by No 5 Squadron, RNAS. It is noteworthy that his CO was a brother Australian, Wing-Commander S J Goble, now a member of the Commonwealth Air Council and Air Board.
Mr Hinkler obtained his pilot's commission in 1917, while in France and was posted to No 28 Squadron, RAF ('Camels'), stationed in Italy, where he remained until the Armistice.
Last year, suffering acutely from what he describes as "airman's itch”, he procured the “Baby” and fitted it with “a few little gadgets” of his own – notably the movable needle jet for carburettor adjustment, the Hinkler Compass and the Hinkler Altitude-Recorder.
Then, having increased the petrol capacity from 10 gallons to 25, he one day astonished and delighted the entire flying world by making the record (and hitherto unattempted) non-stop flight from London to Turin — now also a matter of history. This accomplished he flew, on to Rome and then back to London, "dropping in" quite casually and unexpectedly in time for the Avro people to feature his "Baby” as star attraction of the Aeronautical Exhibition at the Olympia.
While this exhibition was in progress he suddenly decided to enter his machine for the Aerial Derby (a circuit of 200 miles) for which race he took it straight from the Olympia. The engine had already run for 50 hours without attention, but there was no time for tuning before the Derby. In this contest it was, of course, necessary to run the little "Green" full out. He attained second place in 2 hours 45 minutes, beaten for the premier position by Captain Hammersley, also on an Avro "Baby"— but a brand new one. This performance speaks extremely well for the reliability of the 35 hp engine and has proven a revelation to many flying experts, particularly on the point of petrol consumption, his average on the London-Turin flight being 33 miles to the gallon.
The hero of these exploits is to be guest of honour of the New South Wales Section of the Australian Aero Club, who will entertain him to a banquet at the Hotel Australia.
[Ref: Bundaberg Mail Tuesday 12-4-1921]
Famous composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) by Italian sculptor Marino Marini (1901-1980). Seen at an exhibition of Marini at Museum De Fundatie Zwolle, the Netherlands.
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Es war 1879. Rodolphe Lindt, Sohn eines Berner Apothekers, wollte Schokolade machen.
Rod. Lindt Fils, Berne
a Swiss chocolate manufacturer and Inventor
Lindt was born in Berne to pharmacist and politician Johann Rudolf Lindt and his wife Armalia Eugenia Salchli. From 1873 to 1875 he had a training job in Lausanne with the Amédée Kohler & fils chocolate company. In 1879 he founded his own chocolate factory in the Mattequartier on the Aare in Berne.
Sprüngli paid 1.5 million Gold francs for the marketing rights and the recipe. Lindt himself led the Bern branch of Lindt & Sprüngli until 1905, four years before his death.
Rodolphe Lindt, eigentlich Rudolf Lindt, (* 16. Juli 1855 in Bern; † 20. Februar 1909 ebenda) war ein Schweizer Schokoladenfabrikant und Erfinder.
Er war Gründer der Chocolademanufaktur Lindt sowie Erfinder der Conchiermaschine und anderer Verfahren zur Verbesserung der Schokoladenqualität.
Noch im Dezember desselben Jahres gelang ihm die Verbesserung der damals noch sehr mäßigen Schokoladenqualität durch die Entwicklung der Conchiermaschine, einem Längsrührwerk zur Verfeinerung der Konsistenz und Verflüchtigung unerwünschter Aromen.
Auch gab er als erster Kakaobutter in die Schokoladenmasse. Diese zwei Neuerungen trugen wesentlich zur hohen Qualität Schweizer Schokolade bei.
1899 verkaufte Lindt seine Fabrik und das „Geheimnis“ des Conchierens an die Chocolat Sprüngli AG, die seitdem unter dem Namen Lindt & Sprüngli AG firmiert.
Für die Markenrechte und die Lindt-Rezepte musste Sprüngli 1.5 Millionen Goldfranken bezahlen.
Inflationsbereinigt würde dies heute 7 Millionen € betragen.
(Unter Goldfranken versteht man hauptsächlich den als 291 Milligramm Gold definierten Franken der Lateinischen Münzunion (1865 - 1927), der in der Schweiz noch bis 1936 galt. )
Rudolf Lindt führte den „Berner Zweig“ von Lindt & Sprüngli noch bis 1905, vier Jahre vor seinem Tod.
Er war der Sohn des Apothekers und Politikers Johann Rudolf Lindt sowie dessen Gattin Amalia Eugenia geborene Salchli. Von 1873 bis 1875 absolvierte er in Lausanne eine Lehre beim Schokoladebetrieb Amédée Kohler & fils. 1879 gründete er eine eigene Schokoladenfabrik im Mattequartier an der Aare in Bern.
STORY
ESSAY
Rodolphe Lindt, Konditor, Genussmensch und Lebemann, wollte also eine Schokolade erschaffen, die nicht hart war. Er kaufte eine alte Fabrikhalle mit uralten Maschinen. Die Berner Gesellschaft wunderte sich. Rodolphe liess sich nicht beirren. Er experimentierte, aber nichts funktionierte.
«Chocolat fin»? Von wegen! Nur der Spott der Konkurrenz war ihm sicher.
Enttäuscht verliess seine Fabrik unverrichteter Dinge – und vor allem, ohne die Maschinen auszuschalten.
Als Rodolphe Lindt am kommenden Montagmorgen in seine Fabrik kam, erschrak er zunächst. Doch was er im Rührkessel fand, war keineswegs harte, verbrannte Schokoladenmasse. Es glänze, es duftete. Und als er davon degustierte, war er der erste Mensch überhaupt, der erlebte, wie Schokolade zart auf seiner Zunge schmilzt. Er war im siebten Himmel.
Das Geheimnis der "Chocolat Surfin", der dunklen Schokolade
Das kennt bis heute niemand – fast niemand. Sicher ist: Das stunden-, ja tage- und nächtelange Rühren gehört dazu: das Conchieren.
Cacao-Butter? Sicher.
Nur wieviel? Hm ... Und was noch? Psst ...
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Kleines Land, große Tradition
Seit fast 150 Jahren versuchen Schokoladenhersteller in der Schweiz und anderswo dem Familienrezept auf die Schliche zu kommen.
Ganz geschafft hat es bis heute keiner. Die zartschmelzende Schokolade von Rodolphe Lindt aber ist bis heute ein Sinnbild, nicht nur für die weltweit geschätzte Schweizer Schokolade, sondern für die Innovationsfreude und den Erfindergeist von erfolgreichen Unternehmern aus diesem kleinen Land im Herzen Europas: dem Land der LINDT-Schokolade.
Fils de Johann Rudolf Lindt, il suit son apprentissage de chocolatier à Lausanne chez Charles-Amédée Kohler avec qui il projette de créer une fabrique dans la ville de Berne. Il fondera finalement en 1879 seul son entreprise qui sera rachetée en 1899 par l'entreprise zurichoise Lindt & Sprüngli.
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Rodolphe Lindt, né à Berne le 16 juillet 1855 et mort le 20 février 1909 dans la même ville, mort a l'âge de 53 ans il étais chocolatier suisse, inventeur du procédé du conchage.
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Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer
Medium: Medium unknown
Dimensions: 21.3 cm x 16 cm
Date: prior to 1940
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.
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Accession number: SIL14-B7-11
more scanner experiments... done in a single scan with a lens train to focus my eye; note: don't look into an older scanner with the very bright incandescent light; this has an LED light bar and I used an LED flashlight for my face also; external light sources are seen as monochrome with this scanner