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Yes, it is what it looks like. The first car ever made now in Lego form. Unveiled to the public in July of 1886, the Patent-Motorwagen became the first vehicle to be designed to use an internal combustion engine and is regarded as the first car. In August 1888, Karl Benz's wife Bertha Benz took can No.3 on a drive through Germany that was about 121 miles total, thus proving the feasibility of long distance car travel.
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I was able to wear my Calvin Klein rain coat (black patent) out to go grocery shopping. I also wore my Talbots black turtleneck dress and my Cathy Jean Black Patent 2 strap MaryJanes. Topping it off with a blk patent purse and blk tights
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Patente: KMW 708 (Argentina)
N° de Orden Interno: 69
Lugar de la Fotografía: Av. General Paz, Centro de Córdoba, Provincia de Córdoba, Argentina.
Fecha y Hora de la Fotografía: Lunes 23 de Febrero del 2014, 12:20 Hrs.
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Patent medicines are compounds promoted and sold as medical cures that do not work as promoted. "Patent medicine" is a misnomer since in most cases, although products might betrademarked, they are not patented (the patent process requires proof that something new has been discovered). In ancient times, patent medicine was sometimes called nostrum remedium ("our remedy" in Latin).
The promotion of patent medicines was one of the first major products highlighted by the advertising industry, and many advertising and sales techniques were pioneered by patent medicine promoters.[1] Patent medicine advertising often promoted the advantages of exotic ingredients, even though their actual effects came from more prosaic drugs. One group of patent medicines — liniments that allegedly contained snake oil, supposedly a panacea — made snake oil salesman a lasting synonym for a charlatan.
The phrase "patent medicine" comes from the late 17th century[2] marketing of medical elixirs, when those who found favour with royalty were issued letters patent authorising the use of the royal endorsement in advertising. Few if any of the nostrums were actually patented; chemical patents did not come into use in the United States until 1925. Furthermore, patenting one of these remedies would have meant publicly disclosing its ingredients, which most promoters sought to avoid.
Instead, the compounders of such nostrums used a primitive version of branding to distinguish their products from the crowd of their competitors. Many familiar names from the era live on today in brands such as Luden's cough drops, Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable compound for women, Fletcher's Castoria and even Angostura bitters, which was once marketed as a stomachic. Though sold at high prices, many of these products were made from cheap ingredients. Their composition was well known within the pharmacy trade, and druggists manufactured and sold (for a slightly lower price) medicines of almost identical composition. To protect profits, the branded medicine advertisements emphasized brand names, and urged the public to, "...accept no substitutes."
At least in the earliest days, the history of patent medicines is coextensive with scientific medicine. Empirical medicine, and the beginning of the application of the scientific method to medicine, began to yield a few orthodoxly acceptable herbal and mineral drugs for the physician's arsenal. These few remedies, on the other hand, were inadequate to cover the bewildering variety of diseasesand symptoms. Beyond these patches of evidence-based application, people used other methods, such as occultism; the "doctrine of signatures" — essentially, the application of sympathetic magic to pharmacology — held that nature had hidden clues to medically effective drugs in their resemblances to the human body and its parts. This led medical men to hope, at least, that, say,walnut shells might be good for skull fractures. Given the state of the pharmacopoeia, and patients' demands for something to take, physicians began making "blunderbuss" concoctions of various drugs, proven and unproven. These concoctions were the ancestors of the several nostrums.
Touting these nostrums was one of the first major projects of the advertising industry. The marketing of nostrums under implausible claims has a long history. In Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749), allusion is made to the sale of medical compounds claimed to be universal panaceas:
As to Squire Western, he was seldom out of the sick-room, unless when he was engaged either in the field or over his bottle. Nay, he would sometimes retire hither to take his beer, and it was not without difficulty that he was prevented from forcing Jones to take his beer too: for no quack ever held his nostrum to be a more general panacea than he did this; which, he said, had more virtue in it than was in all the physic in an apothecary's shop.
Within the English-speaking world, patent medicines are as old as journalism. "Anderson's Pills" were first made in England in the 1630s; the recipe was allegedly learned in Venice by a Scot who claimed to be physician to King Charles I. Daffy's Elixir was invented about 1647 and remained popular in Britain and the USA until the late 19th century. The use of "letters patent" to obtain exclusive marketing rights to certain labelled formulas and their marketing fueled the circulation of early newspapers. The use of invented names began early. In 1726 a patent was also granted to the makers of "Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops"; at least on the documents that survive, there was no Dr. Bateman. This was the enterprise of a Benjamin Okell and a group of promoters who owned a warehouse and a print shop to promote the product.
A number of American institutions owe their existence to the patent medicine industry, most notably a number of the older almanacs, which were originally given away as promotional items by patent medicine manufacturers. Perhaps the most successful industry that grew up out of the business of patent medicine advertisements, though, was founded by William H. Gannett in Maine in 1866. There were few circulating newspapers in Maine in that era, so Gannett founded a periodical, Comfort, whose chief purpose was to propose the merits of Oxien, a nostrum made from the fruit of the baobab tree, to the rural folks of Maine. Gannett's newspaper became the first publication of Guy Gannett Communications, which eventually owned four Maine dailies and several television stations. (The family-owned firm is unrelated to the Gannett Corporation that publishes USA Today.) An early pioneer in the use of advertising to promote patent medicine was New York businessman Benjamin Brandreth, whose "Vegetable Universal Pill" eventually became one of the best-selling patent medicines in the United States.[3] “…A congressional committee in 1849 reported that Brandreth was the nation’s largest proprietary advertiser… Between 1862 and 1863 Brandreth’s average annual gross income surpassed $600,000…”[4] For fifty years Brandreth’s name was a household word in the United States[5] Indeed, the Brandreth pills were so well known they received mention in Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick.[6]
Another publicity method—undertaken mostly by smaller firms—was the medicine show, a traveling circus of sorts that offered vaudeville-style entertainments on a small scale, and climaxed in a pitch for some sort of cure-all nostrum. "Muscle man" acts were especially popular on these tours, for this enabled the salesman to tout the physical vigour the product supposedly offered. The showmen frequently employed shills, who stepped forward from the crowd to offer "unsolicited" testimonials about the benefits of the medicine. Often, the nostrum was manufactured and bottled in the wagon in which the show travelled. The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company became one of the largest and most successful medicine show operators. Their shows had an American Indian or Wild West theme, and employed many American Indian as spokespeople. The "medicine show" lived on in American folklore and Western movies long after they vanished from public life.
Really really really cheap patent purple flats, but really really really low quality - barely survived my first wearing!!
We just had to get a few shots in with some of the girls when we visited Hooter's during our recent Tour de Force!
I had Cindy take a couple of pix of me over the weekend when we were out for our 2nd annual Tour de Force! This is at our 2nd stop, the Hooter's in Chantilly, VA. I have to thank Cindy for getting the gang together for another great time!
My ensemble for the night consists of my Baltogs shiny wet look black lycra spandex leotard from nydancewear.com, a perfectly matching black wet look lycra spandex miniskirt from coquetryclothing.com, Osé Retina sparkly lurex fishnet hose
from hosieree.com, worn over super shiny Platino Cleancut pantyhose from shapings.com, and my black patent lace up thigh boots with the 5" heels from electriqueboutique.com.
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The patent slipway at Underfall Yard in Bristol Harbour can lift out vessels up to 32m (105 ft) long and 8m (25ft) wide, and up to 180 tonnes dead weight. Boats can be taken out for a quick inspection or anti-fouling or for longer periods for major repair or alteration. Multihulls can be lifted out fully rigged. Narrow Boats can be accommodated either singly or in pairs.
There has been a slipway at the yard since the 1850s and the current design was installed by Docks Engineer John Ward Girdlestone in the late 1880’s. It was subject to extensive restoration in early 2022.
Really really really cheap patent purple flats, but really really really low quality - barely survived my first wearing!!
Placa Patente: PD6159
Año: 1996
País de Origen: Francia
Una tremenda rareza capturar en el norte un Magnum ! sobre todo de esta generación tan antigua... personalmente no conocía a esta joyita, casi siempre se relaciona estos antiguos Magnum con la empresa Dupré, sin embargo, en este caso tengo la duda, ya que no recuerdo ni un ejemplar ni una partida con esta combinación de Patente... presiento que se trata de un ejemplar aparte, lo interesante sería saber quien fue el dueño de esta maravilla... por ahora feliz de haberlo capturado en pleno desierto :D !!