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I made pinhole cameras in the early 70's. This was weird effect for hallowe'en using a life mask against the background of old Fairleigh Castle in Somerset. Interestingly, these very small images have not degraded as much as lots of our old film photos kept in albums.
www.ganz-volkswagen.org/biography/index.htm
BIOGRAPHY
JOSEF GANZ
Dipl.-Ing. Josef Ganz (1898-1967) was the engineering father of the Volkswagen Beetle - the most famous car ever built - and laid many of the foundations for modern lightweight streamlined motorcars.
Josef Ganz was born in a Jewish family with a Hungarian mother and a German father in Budapest on July 1, 1898 and was already fascinated by technlogy at an early age. After relocating to Germany in 1916 and serving in the German army during the First World War, Ganz started a mechanical engineering study.
During this time, he became inspired with the idea of building a small people's car for the price of a motorcycle. Josef Ganz made his first Volkswagen design sketches in 1923, designing an innovative small lightweight car with a mid-mounted engine, independent wheel suspension and an aerodynamic body, but lacked the money to build a prototype. Therefore, he passionately started publishing articles on progressive car design in various magazines.
Shortly after his graduation in 1927, Josef Ganz was assigned as the new editor-in-chief of Klein-Motor-Sport. He used this magazine, which he renamed into Motor-Kritik in January 1929, as a platform to criticize heavy, unsafe and old-fashioned cars and promote innovative design and his concept for a 'Deutschen Volkswagen' ('German Volkswagen').
'With the ardent conviction of a missionary', so post-war Volkswagen director Heinrich Nordhoff would later say, 'Josef Ganz in Motor-Kritik attacked the old and well-established auto companies with biting irony.' These companies fought against Motor-Kritik with law-suits, slander campaigns and an advertising boycott. However, every new attempt for destruction only increased the publicity for the magazine and Josef Ganz firmly established himself as the leading independent automotive innovator in Germany.
In 1929, Josef Ganz started contacting German motorcycle manufacturers for collaboration to build a Volkswagen prototype. This resulted in a first prototype built at Ardie in 1930 and a second one completed at Adler in May 1931, which was nicknamed the Maikäfer ('May-Beetle'). News about these amazing constructions quickly spread through the industry.
Besides at Adler, Josef Ganz was assigned as a consultant engineer at Daimler-Benz and BMW where he was involved in the development of the first models with independent wheel suspension: the highly successful Mercedes-Benz 170 and BMW AM1 (Automobilkonstruktion München 1). Furthermore, Josef Ganz managed to pursuade director Wilhelm Kissel and technical director Hans Nibel of Daimler-Benz to develop new rear-engined models under his supervison. His brilliant engineering work and critical journalistic writings jump-started a revolution in the automotive industry to build affordable, lightweight, comfortable, safe and efficient cars.
The first company to serially manufacture a Volkswagen according to the many patents of Josef Ganz was the Standard Fahrzeugfabrik, which introduced its Standard Superior model at the IAMA (Internationale Auto- und Motorradausstellung) in Berlin in February 1933. Here the new Chancellor Adolf Hitler expressed great interest in its revolutionary design and low selling price of 1,590 Reichsmark. Under the new anti-Semitic government, however, Josef Ganz was an easy target for his old enemies.
'Whatever may be the future development
of this type of car in Germany,
without doubt the Hitler government
will be responsible for its popularization'
Ironically, while German car manufacturers one by one took over the progressive ideas that had been published in Motor-Kritik since the 1920s, Josef Ganz himself was arrested by the Gestapo in May 1933 based on falsified charges of blackmail of the automotive industry. He was eventually released, but his career was systematically destroyed and his life endangered.
This lead to his escape from Germany in June 1934 - the very month Adolf Hitler assigned Ferdinand Porsche to realize the prophecy of Josef Ganz: designing a mass-producible Volkswagen for a consumer price of 1,000 Reichsmark. The Standard Fahrzeugfabrik, which had recently released a new model with place for a family with two children, was now forbidden to use the name Volkswagen in its advertising.
Josef Ganz settled in Switzerland where with government support he started a Swiss Volkswagen project. The first prototypes were constructed in 1937 and 1938 and plans were formed for mass-production inside a new factory. After the start of the Second World War, however, Josef Ganz was again under serious threat from the Gestapo and corrupt Swiss government officials who tried to claim the Swiss Volkswagen project as their own.
After the war, Josef Ganz in a desperate attempt for justice took his Swiss enemies to court. Numb from five years of highly complex court battles, Josef Ganz left Switzerland in 1949 and settled in France. Here he worked on a new small car for Automobiles Julien, but could no longer compete with the German Volkswagen - his own vision - which was now conquering the world in its hundreds of thousands and within a few years in its millions.
In 1951 Josef Ganz decided to leave the old world behind and boarded an ocean liner to Australia. For some years he worked there for General Motors - Holden, but became almost bedridden after a series of heart attacks in the early 1960s. Despite some attempts to restore his name, it was too little too late. Josef Ganz died in obscurity in Australia in 1967, his legacy known and admired by all but his name forgotten. His desk lay full of evidence for his bizarre life story that he so desperately wanted to be told.
Operator: Saint Rose Transit
Fleet no# 1004
Classification: Air Conditioned Provincial Bus
Route: Calamba Laguna-Lawton Manila
Seats configuration: 2x2
Type of operation: Provincial Operation (Regular)
Area of operation: Region 4-A (CALABARZON)
Unit: GD Full size Marcopolo XML6127
Coachbuilder: Xiamen Golden Dragon Co., Ltd/Trans Oriental
Chassis:
Engine:
Shot Location: Taft.Ave Ermita Manila
Euroskills_Graz2021 European Championship Graz (Austria). Septembre 2021 ©LaurentBagnis - BAGNIS.PICS
The jockey has been around early in the forming of the colonies. using basic muscle cylander technlogy, jockeys are easily overwelmed by newer frames.
I took apart my laptop this weekend after it took a dive on me. Sadly, the operation yielded nothing positive.
Fucking Dell...
5th Regiment, Basic Camp Cadet Hannah Bartolotto, Richester Institute of Technlogy, waits for contact from the OPFOR during the Field Training Exercise, Aug 2, at Fort Knox, Ky. |Photo by Catrina Dubiansky, CST Public Affairs Office
Top Right
David Loftin, "Federally Funded Ambulances" photograph, 1980, _David Lofitn Collection_, Rome, GA
Top Right
Nancy Runkle,"Today's Ambulance" digital photograph, September 2008, _Nancy Runkle Collection_, Cartersville, GA
Middle Left
David Loftin, "Introduction to flght" photpgraph, 1980, _David Loftin Collection_, Rome, GA
Middle Right
Marcus Desmond,"Hurse Ambulance" digital photgraph, May 2006, _Marcus Desmond Collection_, Cartersville, GA
Bottom Left
Marcus Desmond, "Honor Guard Posing" digital photograph, May 2006, _Marcus Desmond Collection_, Cartersville, GA
Bottom Right
Nancy Runkle, "Back of the Ambulance" digital photograph, September 2008, _Nancy Runkle Collection_, Cartersville, Ga
Believe it or not, emergency medical systems spawned from an Army surgeon by the name of Dr. Jonathan Letterman. On august 6, 1862, he created the army ambulance corps. Unhappy with the way the troops were being cared for, Dr. Letterman saw improvements could be made and came up with a system that is based on his idea years ago. The three main components of his systems included a field medic to start treatment, a fast way to get the inured out of the field, and a field hospital to get the inured to the operating table as quickly as possible. The medic tuned into a paramedic. The fast transport turned into an ambulance and the field hospital turned into a trauma center. In the early 1950- 1960’s there wasn’t any formal training of emts and paramedics. There were no regulations on ambulances. In 1966, funeral homes ran most of the ambulance services. They were only big enough to fit a stretcher in and they only transported the patient. There wasn’t any room to perform any patient care. Two major milestones were the publication of Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society, Highway Safety Act of 1966, and the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act of 1973. The publication discredited the emergency systems in place and spawned the House of Representatives to pass a bill that would develop programs that would help highway patients in need. “Medical Requirements for Ambulance Design and Equipment” written by the National Research Council helped develop criteria for development of ambulance. This criteria was known as KKK- specs. New ambulances had to be one of three types. Type 1 was a cab-chassis with a modular body. Type 2 was a standard van. Type 3 combines attributes of type 1 and type 2. In Georgia, that meant federal grants would be allotted for ambulances in the form of block grants. Ambulance were purchased by federal grant money were required to be white with an orange stripe. When President Reagan’s Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 ended federal funding, it was left up to states and local communities to pay for ambulances through local tax funds. This is what spawned newer and improved renovation and color schemes. Some children’s hospital ambulances in Atlanta have critical care units that have capabilities that any intensive care units have. They also have DVD players for the children to enjoy and to keep them calm. Also there are critical care ambulance with advanced equipment and life supporting measures.
1. Jeffry D. Weirt , “Dr. Letterman’s War” Civil War Times 45:7 (2006) pg 7.
2. The Emergency Medical Division, Emergency Medical Services, NHTSA Leading the way (Washington, D.C.: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and U.S. Department of Transportation,1996 ) pg.6-8
3. Bruce J. Walz, Emergency Medical Systems (Albany :Thompson Delmar Learning, 2002), 25, 35, 91
4. Bruce J. Walz, Emergency Medical Systems (Albany :Thompson Delmar Learning, 2002), 25, 35, 91
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulance
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Ever since the Ars Electronica Festival was first held at JKU's Kepler's Gardens, the Linz Institute of Technlogy (LIT) has been presenting a series of fascinating projects every year.
Photos showing impressions of the Project "Serum 13" by LIT Robopsychology Lab JKU Linz (AT) at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021.
In Serum 13 – A VR Trust Game, puzzles have to be solved in a virtual medical laboratory. A voice assistant is available as a game partner.
Credit: vog.photo
Centro Spectrum. Museo de la tecnologia.
Spectrum Center. Technlogy Museum.
Reemplazada! ^_^!
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Life certainly is worth living....
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Interesting game where you have to post your self portrait and share few facts about you :) Now along with you I have to tag 9 others. Now let us know few things about you along with a photograph of yours.
Thanks Preethu for tagging me...
..and I'm trying to think all about me and write here that is not documented so far! Here goes :
1. The Kid in me is still very alive. I love crayons, sketch pens, different color pens, etc.. I still wouldn't mind a house like a kids room!
2. I love technlogy! I'm not lazy but I like the beauty of machines, electronics, everything as to how something can be done automatically.
3. Family & Friends - I hope someday we can remove this distinction..there should either be only family - one big Universal family or just friends.
4. I have flunked twice in my life. One I almost did in Chemistry practical exams, but survived because I was a gold medalist in PHysics and my college ensured the grace of some 4 marks. And 2nd at two courses in IIT, Kanpur in :P
5. My first ever crush was on my Maami in 1985. I couldn't never forget her good bye kiss.
6. I can read new stuff like crazy. I can read end-to-end user manual of any equipment just to know the inside out of the machine!
7. I was always a voracious writer. I use to to 30 letters a month on snail mail way back when I was in class - VII even! And I would preserve carbon copies of them to help understand replies of friends
8. I was a die hard radio fan in 1980s! I had a digital radio tuner and I would tune all night to short-wave transmissions from all over the world and then correspond to them too.
9. I'm crazy about meeting/ knowing new people. I also love embracing & understanding new culture! I can spend hours to understand a new professions/interest/hobbies..etc
10. I wish knew lots of languages.. for now Telugu :P
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11. I love to remember friends&families on their birthdays, I have a full database of all their birthdays (young, old, babies..etc.) on diary (then) and now on my handheld..etc.
12. Ok, I can go on & on.. but yes, if I din't opt for science as a career I even considered studying literature / become a journalist or be in the Indian Cricket team
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This is an art project that collects photographs concerning past "ACM SIGGRAPH Emerging Technlogy" and makes an 3-D image archive in Second Life, aiming at this year's SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008. 600 photographs or more were finally collected.
It is created by Hidenori Watanave (Supervisor of Photon,Inc. / Associate Professor of Tokyo Metropolitan University), and conception by Tomoe Moriyama (SIGGRAPH ASIA Art Gallery and Emerging Technology chair / Museum of Comtemporary art Tokyo). Please refer to the lower side of this article about cooperators.
It will be exhibited in SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery (Singapore, Dec.10 - 13 2008). I will make a machinima (movie) of this project and upload soon.
Posted by Second Life Resident Torley Olmstead. Visit nikkeibp.
Stunning work from this independent school in Edinburgh. Superb use of advanced graphics techniques. Very impressive folio work and pupil displays. Jordanhill pupils will learn a lot from the work shown here.
Stunning work from this independent school in Edinburgh. Superb use of advanced graphics techniques. Very impressive folio work and pupil displays. Jordanhill pupils will learn a lot from the work shown here.
Stunning work from this independent school in Edinburgh. Superb use of advanced graphics techniques. Very impressive folio work and pupil displays. Jordanhill pupils will learn a lot from the work shown here.
Stunning work from this independent school in Edinburgh. Superb use of advanced graphics techniques. Very impressive folio work and pupil displays. Jordanhill pupils will learn a lot from the work shown here.
Stunning work from this independent school in Edinburgh. Superb use of advanced graphics techniques. Very impressive folio work and pupil displays. Jordanhill pupils will learn a lot from the work shown here.
Hospital technology obviously ... Friend of mine was in the hospital recently (like this week recently) and I thought I'd take the opportunity to take a few photos (of course - what else would I do there right ;o) ... hey - they were sleeping by the time I took this (these) - it's not like I ditched them to take some photos, okay ? ;o) :o) ... Hopefully, this is "modern technology" ~ if it's not - I'm not sure I want to know ;o)
Stunning work from this independent school in Edinburgh. Superb use of advanced graphics techniques. Very impressive folio work and pupil displays. Jordanhill pupils will learn a lot from the work shown here.
Stunning work from this independent school in Edinburgh. Superb use of advanced graphics techniques. Very impressive folio work and pupil displays. Jordanhill pupils will learn a lot from the work shown here.
Stunning work from this independent school in Edinburgh. Superb use of advanced graphics techniques. Very impressive folio work and pupil displays. Jordanhill pupils will learn a lot from the work shown here.
Stunning work from this independent school in Edinburgh. Superb use of advanced graphics techniques. Very impressive folio work and pupil displays. Jordanhill pupils will learn a lot from the work shown here.
Stunning work from this independent school in Edinburgh. Superb use of advanced graphics techniques. Very impressive folio work and pupil displays. Jordanhill pupils will learn a lot from the work shown here.
Stunning work from this independent school in Edinburgh. Superb use of advanced graphics techniques. Very impressive folio work and pupil displays. Jordanhill pupils will learn a lot from the work shown here.
Stunning work from this independent school in Edinburgh. Superb use of advanced graphics techniques. Very impressive folio work and pupil displays. Jordanhill pupils will learn a lot from the work shown here.
Stunning work from this independent school in Edinburgh. Superb use of advanced graphics techniques. Very impressive folio work and pupil displays. Jordanhill pupils will learn a lot from the work shown here.
Disassembled Remote Control Embedded in Plaster Cast Base (Front View), 9.5” x 4” x 12”, March 2014.
2009 Deloitte TMT Predictions - Montreal Event / Les TMT Predictions 2009 de Deloitte – Évènement de Montréal - Duncan Stewart
A small marble relief which depicts a corbita, a small coastal vessel with two masts, one of the merchant ships of imperial Rome that plied routes from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and India.
The sails of the boat would probably be made of cloth, with leather reinforcements at the corners. Large amounts of trading was carried out by small boats such as this which went from harbour to harbour, hugging the coast.
Curator’s comments: A rare representation of a two masted square sail vessel. A discussion of the development of two square-sail rig sailing technlogy developed during the 2nd century AD is available in Whitewright 2017.
From Carthage, province of Africa Proconsularis (roughly, Tunisia), ca. 200 CE.
British Museum (1850,0304.32)
British Museum (