Mike Gorman: Bell's Path The The Telephone--Home Page To organize and depict, in abbreviated form, Alexander Graham Bell s inventionof the Bell sketched, but never built, this device in the summer of 1874. http://www.iath.virginia.edu/albell/introduction.html
Extractions: To organize and depict, in abbreviated form, Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, we have created a series of flowchart "maps" that include every sketch we have been able to locate from Bell's experimental notebooks, patents, depositions in court and correspondence. As the dates on the map indicate, time advances as on the maps from top to bottom. Multiple boxes spreading from right to left at the same time indicate that Bell was pursuing several lines of research at that point. When we say that Bell followed a path to the telephone, it makes his innovation process sound more linear and goal-directed than it really was, though Bell tried very hard to be scientific in his approach and therefore was more linear than his competitors Edison and Gray. We refer to this flowchart as a map because the term flowchart implies more logical structure than does map , which may reflect the wanderings of an inventor. This series of maps is arranged hierarchically. The top level depicts the major experiments along Bell's path to a patent and to a device that successfully transmitted speech. When you click on one of the sketches in boxes on this top level, you will move to a lower-level map, depicting a series of experiments that were subsumed under that higher-level box. Some of these lower level maps will be combined with text which describes the depicted experiments and/or sketches. These maps were originally developed using a program called
Extractions: Richard G. Drew (1899-1980) invented masking tape and clear adhesive tape (also called cellophane tape or Scotch tape). Drew was an engineer for the 3M (Minnesota Mining) company. Drew's first tape invention was a masking tape made for painters in 1923 (this tape was designed to help painters paint a straight border between two colors). This early masking tape was a wide paper tape with adhesive on only the edges of the tape - not in the middle. Drew made an improved tape called Scotch (TM) Brand Cellulose Tape in 1930. This tape was a clear, all-purpose adhesive tape that was soon adopted worldwide. The first tape dispenser with a built-in cutting edge was invented in 1932 by John A. Borden, another 3M employee. AIRPLANE The first working airplane was invented, designed, made, and flown by the Wright brothers, Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) and Orville Wright (1871-1948). Their "Wright Flyer" was a fabric-covered biplane with a wooden frame. The power to the two propellers was supplied by a 12-horsepower water-cooled engine. On December 17, 1903, the "Flyer" flew for 12 seconds and for a distance of 120 feet (37 m). The flight took place at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA.
January 1 - Today In Science History Johann s first publication was on the process of fermentation in 1690, Inventors Abel Shawk and Alexander Latta, took nine months to build it in their http://www.todayinsci.com/1/1_01.htm
Extractions: American meteorologist who, working with John von Neumann, first introduced the electronic computer into weather prediction (1950) and improved understanding of the large-scale circulation of the atmosphere. The entire Oct 1947 issue of the Journal of Meteorology published his Ph.D. dissertation, (UCLA, 1936) Dynamics of long waves in a baroclinic westerly current . It emphasized the influence of "long waves" in the upper atmosphere rather than the existing practice of emphasis on the polar front. It also simplified analysis of perturbations of these waves using mathematically rigorous methods that yielded useful physical interpretation. He helped the U.S. Weather Bureau set up (1954) a numerical weather prediction unit.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alexander Martin Sullivan In 1874 he was elected MP for Louth, and was afterwards MP for Meath. His lastgreat case was on 30 November, 1883 when he was colleague of Lord Russell http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14329a.htm
DeWitt Colony Biographies-Surnames H-N Robert and Mary Emma Hodges had three children Barney Raymond (18921923) It was found on his pension record that he was on detached service for Houston http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/dewittbios2.htm
Extractions: Surnames A-G H-N O-Z Biographies here are DeWitt Colonists (surnames beginning H-N) and residents of the region prior to statehood in 1846. This index includes biographies of 1828 Residents The Battle of Gonzales-Old 18 Gonzales Alamo Relief Force Gonzales Town Residents and Citizens- Free State of Lavaca HALL HALLETT ... HALL Robert Hall aka Brazos. Came to Texas in 1836 just missing the Battle of San Jacinto to become an active member of the Republic of Texas in numerous Indian battles, including the Battle of Plum Creek, and the Battle of Salado in which the Mexican centralists attempted to re-take Texas. Left his memoirs under the pen name Brazos. HALLETT John Hallet. Margaret Leatherbury Hallett William Henry Hallett John Hallett Jr HANNIG/DICKINSON Susanna Wilkerson Dickinson Hannig , non-combatant survivor of the Battle of the Alamo, was born in 1814, the child of a poor Tennessee family. She married Almeron Dickinson.
Scarvagherin Line He left Gravesend 28/10/1874 Arrived Lyttleton 25/01/1875 after 89 days. Leslie Robert (18951941) married Yvonne Hardy in 1926 - they had 3 daughters. http://www.mccaskie.org.uk/ScarvNZ_Line.htm
Extractions: John James(1854-1939) emigrated to New Zealand on the maiden voyage of the Waimate.He left Gravesend 28/10/1874 Arrived Lyttleton 25/01/1875 after 89 days. Passenger list shows John McCaskey age 20. He married Mary Cosgrove on 1 October 1877 in Southbridge. She was born 24/2/1853 in Liverpool and went to New Zealand on the Waikato arriving 3/10/1875 after 98 days. John James had a photography business in Geraldine - later sold to the Willoughby family. Mary died 03/07/1929 Thanks to the Volunteers at Geraldine Museum for the Photos below John James was an Office bearer of
Extractions: At the close of any war there are bound to be thousands of young men who find peacetime pursuits too dull for their adventure-stirred lives. Maybe that was truer after the Civil War than at any other time. I know how I felt. I was restive. I wanted out. Fortunately for us then we had what you don't have now: we had a frontier to conquer. It was a very good substitute for war. And on this frontier, old mountain men who drifted in and kept brass rails and cuspidors of crude saloons in high polish, told us there were literally millions of buffalo. They didn't belong to anybody. If you could kill them, what they brought was yours. They were walking gold pieces, the old timers said, and a young fellow who had guts and gumption could make his fortune. I have since learned that there never was a buffalo on the American continent. It didn't matter to me in 1872 that the animal I pursued was not a buffalo, but a bison. It was all one. He walked. He had a hide. The hide was worth money. I was young, 22. I could shoot. I liked to hunt. I needed adventure. Here was it. Wouldn't you have done the same thing if you had been in my place? For the record, let me make the distinction between the buffalo and the bison clear, not that it matters too much but just for the record, you know. A bison is defined as "a large, shaggy-maned oxlike animal, having short hair and heavy strong front legs." A buffalo is an African stag or the tame water buffalo of India. I know it's splitting hairs to make an issue of this, but maybe it will keep some of the purists in their place if I admit I know the difference.
Frasers Of Dell A son of his, William Fraser of Dell (18101874), still held the tack of Dell in KNOW ALL MEN by these presents That we Alexander Fraser of Dell Brother http://www.clanfraser.ca/frasers.htm
Extractions: and their Connections with Early Frasers in Canada by Harry W. Duckworth [article from Canadian Explorer , September 1998 with updates] A mong the Frasers who were prominent in Canada in the first generation after the Conquest, the merchants known as Simon Fraser senior, and Simon Fraser junior, both of Quebec, have remained somewhat mysterious. Simon Fraser senior first appeared as a retail merchant at Quebec in the mid-1760s. Over the next thirty years or more, he quietly prospered at Quebec, making some of his money by trading fish to the West Indies and bringing rum back, and the rest of it through his retail business in British manufactured goods. Sometime late in the 1790s Simon Fraser senior retired to Scotland. He was still alive there in 1804. Simon Fraser junior is a more colourful figure. He first appears in the fall of 1774, when a ship on which he was travelling from Quebec to Dominica in the West Indies, the Lady Lovat, was wrecked on Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St Lawrence, and he and his companions spent an uncomfortable winter on that desolate shore. By fall 1775 he was a partner in an aggressive Quebec business called Shaw and Fraser, which made money selling rum to the British army during the American Revolution, but overextended itself and was driven into insolvency at the end of that War.
Extractions: Return to the Main Menu Sign up for our Newsletter Join our new ... Comments and Suggestions Waiters had the opportunity to discretly overhear gossip spoken during meals where tongues were sometimes loosened by too much wine. They became experts at listening and putting together odd snipets of conversation. They were a source of information regarding the Imperial family that couldn't be had elsewhere. Ministers were known to ask a head waiter for information on the Tsar's opinion on certain subjects. The main course of the day was luncheon and this was the chief opportunity for formal entertaining at meals. Imperial luncheons began between 12:00 noon and 1:00 PM. According to tradition they lasted 50 minutes on the dot. The entire meal service was set on this schedule and it involved a fine choreography that was centered on the Tsar himself, who had been trained since childhood in the fine nuances of signalling the staff. Tables for formal meals were arranged in the Semi-circular Hall or occasionally in Aleksandra's Formal Reception Room. They were arranged in two set-ups. The way they were arranged generally depended on the type of guests and the occasion. Round tables, which sat 10 to 11 people each, were ordered when the Tsar wanted more interaction or conversation with his guests. In a round table set-up the Tsar would move from one table to the next, eating different courses along the way. This enabled all of his guests to be able to say they had dined at the Tsar's table.
Builders_1 Four sons of Alexander and Thomas held executive positions in the company The Soho Foundry was on the corner of Eyre and Errard Streets in Ballarat. http://www.trainweb.org/loggingz/builders_1.html
Extractions: Adamson Motor Co., Birmingham, Alabama, USA This company was probably established in 1917 or 1918. In 1924 it was listed in Polk's Birmingham City Directory as selling Ford and Lincoln Locomotives, Fordson Tractors and Farm Implements. It was located at 18th Street North and its manager was Reese Adamson. The company is still in existence today and operating in the same area of Birmingham. It is now called Adamson-Ford and sells automobiles exclusively. Alco Products got its start in Schenectady, NY in 1848 when John Ellis and Platt Potter and others of that city invited the Norris brothers of Philadelphia to establish a locomotive factory there. The needed $50,000 was raised by subscription, and the Schenectady Locomotive Engine Manufactury was built on land near the Erie Canal and the Mohawk River. Somewhat more than a year after the company's founding, its first locomotive, "Lightning", was out shopped for delivery to the Utica and Schenectady Railroad. The "Lightning", though powerful and fast, had insufficient steaming capacity and was too heavy for the rails of the time. It was pronounced a failure. With no more orders forthcoming, the Norrises withdrew from the venture, and the enterprise was sold for taxes in February 1851. However, the company's principals felt that the manufacture of locomotives in the early and important railroad centre bounded by the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers could flourish, and in May 1851, the Schenectady Locomotive Works was formed and significant production soon began. More than two hundred locomotives were manufactured over the next six years
Bledsoe County Family Archives Robert Emmitt, b. July 26, 1858 in Bledsoe, married Elizabeth Childress of It was on Cumberland Mountain and on the headwaters of Daddy s Creek. http://www.tngenweb.org/bledsoe/archives.htm
Extractions: Haskew, Gourley, Roberson, Hutcheson, Sartain, Fuqua William B. Haskew, b: May 12,1812 Knox County Tennessee, died: March 07,1882 Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tenn. Married: June 17,1831 Blount County,Tennessee.Telithia Gourley, b: November 25, 1809, Buncambe County, North Carolina. died: January, 1895 Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tenn. 9 Children born to William B. and Telithia Haskew. Joseph Birdwell Haskew b.March 26,1831 Pikeville, Bledsoe County Tenn. died: June 14, 1864, Florida, In the Civil War. Married: Febuary 23, 1854 Mary Rebecca Roberson b: April 24,1834 Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tenn. died: January 31,1903 Dickens County, Texas
Goodspeeds' History Of Tennessee Unicoi County 1897 Blake he was on a furlough home, and afterward joined the Federal Army as second 1874; Henry H., born May 24, 1877, and Robert A., born April 26, 1880. http://www.ls.net/~newriver/tn/good-uct.htm
Extractions: Sponsored by U NICOI COUNTY lies almost wholly in the Unaka Mountain belt, on the border North Carolina, immediately south of Washington County. It has an area of about 480 square miles, of which only a comparatively small proportion is adapted to cultivation. Greasy Cove and Lime Stone Cove, however, are among the most beautiful an fertile spots in the State. Its mineral and timber resources are exceedingly abundant. The iron ores embrace both the red and brown hematites and the speculum. Manganese is also found in large quantities. These resources when developed will render Unicoi one of the wealthiest counties of East Tennessee. The principal streams in the county are the Nolachucky River which traverses it in a northerly direction, and the two tributaries of this stream the North Indian and South Indian Creeks. The other Baptist Churches in the county at the present time are Coffee Ridge and Paul's Gap. There is also a General Baptist, and a Christian congregation in the county. On January 3,1876, the county court was organized at the Old Baptist Church, on North Indian Creek. The magistrates who were present and qualified were Henry McKinneys, D. T. O'Brien, M. C. Burchfield, Alexander McInturff, James M. Norris, R. L. Rowe, J. M. Anderson, G Garland, William Mclnturff, Baptist McNabb, J. S. Yader, William Parks, Alexander Masters, B. B. Hensley, G. F. Tompkins, Isaac W. Gilbert, B. W. Woodward and A. E. Briggs. The court continued to meet at the church until after the erection of the present brick courthouse, in the summer of 1876. This building has since been occupied, but is not fully completed at the present time. In April, 1878, a contract for building a frame jail was let to John K. Miller, but he failed to complete it. It has since been finished. however, sufficiently to make it a safe place for the keeping of prisoners.
Darwin's Friends & Colleagues - Dr Robert A. Hatch His most important work was on the origin and evolution of vertebrates (which he He studied at Cambridge and met Darwin in 1874, and later did work at http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/13-NDFE/darwin/05-Darwin-friends.htm
Extractions: Dr Robert A. Hatch - University of Florida Agassiz, Jean Louis (1807-1873) , Swiss-American zoologist, studied philosophy and medicine. Agassiz was eventually associated with Cuvier and Humboldt at Paris (1831-32), later became professor of natural history at Neuchatel (1832-45) and professor of geology and zoology at Harvard (1847). Agassiz spent a good deal of time studying glacial formations and eventually proposed a 10-volume study of American natural history. Agassiz was a strong and consistent opponent of Darwin until his death. DSB Barrande, Joachim (1799-1883) , French geologist and paleontologist. Barrande studied and taught at the University of Padua and became an authority on Silurian formations. He was famous for his investigation of the Paleozoic fossils of Bohemia. Barrande published twenty-two volumes of his Systeme Silurian de la Boheme during his lifetime, a work that is still cited by paleontologists. Darwin spoke highly of 'his admirable labours on the development of Trilobites, and his most important work on his Lower or Primordial Zone'. Barrande was awarded the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London (1855). DSB DIF Bate, Charles Spence (1818-80)
Extractions: Contents IBS Carl Robert Jakobson Carl Robert Jakobson was born on July 17, 1841. In 1844 his father got an organist's and a schoolmaster's job at Torma. In 1856, the fifteen-years-old boy became a student of the Cimze Seminary in Valga. The seminary was built up for educating of parish schoolmasters both for Latvian and Estonian schools. Jakobson was especially good in natural sciences; thus interest defined his future life. In 1859 he became schoolmaster at Torma, instead of his father who had been died. Jakobson's rational world view put him into several conflicts between him and Rev. Landesen, pastor of Torma.Later another quarrel with the Torma landlord, O. v. Liphardt, took place. Liphardt was a genuine reactionist. Jakobson was not able to keep quiet, seeing unjustify, by which his Estonian mates were treated. Soon he had to leave Torma. The cruel landlord became prototype of ridiculously prideful and silly German nobleman in comedy by Jakobson "Arthur ja Anna" (printed in 1872). The play was written for germans and in German first. Beside the "bad" landlord Jakobson presents the "good" one. The first is opposed by an Estonian schoolmaster whose character is close to Jakobson's own. In the happy end the young and good landlord Arthur marries a beautiful Estonian girl Anna. The new time will begin at their manor. "Arthur ja Anna" was awarded a great popularity which has lasted up to our days. In 1913 the "Estonia" theatre house in Tallinn was opened with that play.
Campbell Family History Robert Campbell was born on February 12, 1804 at Aghalane , his family home in It was on this visit that he met Virginia Jane Kyle for the first http://stlouis.missouri.org/501c/chm/campbell.htm
Extractions: Robert Campbell was born on February 12, 1804 at Aghalane , his family home in Plumbridge, County Tyrone in present day Northern Ireland. It's fitting that Robert was born just a few months before Lewis and Clark began their journey to explore Louisiana Purchase, as his life would become intimately connected with the territory. Robert's father Hugh Campbell (not to be confused with Robert's brother or son, both also named Hugh Campbell) built Aghalane in 1786. Above the front door Hugh placed two stone plaques, one inscribed with his name and the year "1786", the other marked with the coats of arms of the Dukes of Argyle, indicating that the Campbells of Aghalane, who had arrived from Scotland a few generations earlier, claimed kinship with their distinguished namesakes, the Campbells of Argyle. The house still stands, and is preserved as a museum in the Ulster American Folk Park in Castletown, Northern Ireland. After his first wife died, the father Hugh Campbell married Elizabeth Buchanan (first cousin to President James Buchanan) in about 1792. Robert was the youngest child of his father's second marriagewhich meant he stood to inherit very little or no property from his family. This fact was probably the biggest factor in Robert's decision to follow is older brother Hugh to America to seek his own fortune.
Rodes' Brigade Robert Emmett Rodes Alabama Brigade history, including the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 12th, He was a delegate to the Alabama constitutional convention in 1874, http://www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/rodes.html
Extractions: Robert Emmett Rodes Edward Asbury O'Neal , ultimately a governor of Alabama, was born on 20 September 1818, Madison County, Alabama Territory. He studied at LaGrange College (graduated 1836) and practiced law in Florence, AL (beginning 1840). He became a local politician and involved himself as a secessionist. When war came in 1861, O'Neal joined the 9th Alabama Infantry. He was elected Major, then Lt. Col. In 1862, he was commissioned Col. of the 26th Alabama, fighting in Virginia through 1863. O'Neal commanded Rodes' Brigade when Rodes took over the division command. However, his performance did not qualify him for further promotion. When O'Neal's brigadier's commission was delayed and Gen'l Robert E. Lee appointed Brig. Gen'l Cullen A. Battle as brigade commander, O'Neal requested a transfer. President Jefferson Davis canceled the expected promotion and sent O'Neal to the Atlanta front. After the fall of that city, O'Neal was relieved and spent the remainder of the war with the Conscription Bureau in Alabama. Following the surrender, O'Neal resumed his law practice and continued to be active in politics. He was elected governor of Alabama in 1882 and 1884. Following his service as governor, O'Neal retired to Florence, AL, and died there, 7 November 1890.
O'Reilly Picture of Robert Maitland O Reilly Robert MAITLAND O REILLY (Jan. He participatedin the campaign of 1874 against the Sioux Indians and at the http://history.amedd.army.mil/tsgs/O'Reilly.htm
Extractions: ROBERT MAITLAND O'REILLY (Jan. 14, 1845 -Nov. 3, 1912), Surgeon General, September 7, 1902 - January 14, 1909, was born in Philadelphia to John and Ellen (Maitland) O'Reilly. He was descended on his father's side from an old Irish family, one branch of which, emigrating to Spain, produced General Alexander O'Reilly who was captain general of Cuba and one of the Spanish governors of Louisiana. The American branch settled in Pennsylvania before the Revolutionary War. Young Robert was educated in the Public Schools of his native city and had commenced the study of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania when the Civil War broke out. In August 1862 he was appointed an acting medical cadet and was assigned for duty in the Cuyler General Hospital in Philadelphia. Later he served as a medical cadet in a hospital at Chattanooga, Tenn., and in the office of the medical director of the Army of the Cumberland. Short terms of duty at Charleston, S. C., and Fort McPherson, Ga., interspersed with sick leaves brought him to the summer of 1882, when in June he was ordered to duty with the attending surgeon in Washington, D. C. In November 1884 he himself became the attending surgeon, which post he held until November 1889. In this capacity his attractive personality and his professional skill made him a prominent figure in the capital. He was made the attending physician to the White House by President Cleveland, with whom he was on terms of intimate friendship and who brought him back to Washington during his second term in the presidency. From June to September 1888 he attended General Philip Sheridan during his last illness at Nonquitt, Mass. From Washington he was ordered to Fort Logan, Colorado, where he served from May 1890 to February 1893 when he was again detailed as attending surgeon at the capital.
Britannia Government: Prime Ministers - Benjamin Disraeli After Robert Peel formed a government in 1841, Disraeli was on the outs Disraeli became prime minister for the second time in 1874 at the age of 70. http://www.britannia.com/gov/primes/prime35.html
Extractions: BRITANNIA.COM . . . AMERICA'S GATEWAY TO THE BRITISH ISLES SINCE 1996 Shortcuts Vacation Packages Virtual Tours TRAVEL Travel Directory Planning Resources Reservations Centre Guide to London Wales Scotland Earth Mysteries HISTORY History Directory Biographies Europe in Retrospect Monarchs Diana Remembered PANORAMA News Events What's Cooking Sports GOVERNMENT Government Directory Prime Ministers THE ARTS Arts Directory Museums Literature Theatre BUSINESS CENTRE Business Directory SHOPPING Storefront Books Music Magazines BRITANNIA Known as a dandy, a novelist, a brilliant debator and England's first and only Jewish prime minister, Disraeli is best remembered for bringing India and the Suez Canal under control of the crown. A Conservative, he was elected to Parliament in 1837 after failing to win election in four earlier elections. After Robert Peel formed a government in 1841, Disraeli was on the outs until 1846. He wrote a trilogy "Coningsby", "Sybil" and "Tancred" expounding his ideas and formed the Young England group as watchdogs over Peel's brand of conservatism. When Peel's government feel, Disraeli gradually became known as the leader of the Conservatives in the Commons.
JOSIAH WARREN Josiah Warren (17981874) reformer, inventor, musician, writer But when RobertOwen s Community was started at New Harmony, Indiana my father became http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/warren.html
Extractions: reformer, inventor, musician, writer An interesting account of Josiah Warren's life and work was written by his son, George W. Warren. Parts of George's boyhood were spent in New Harmony, and he served under David Dale Owen, geologist from New Harmony, in Owen's epic survey of portions of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota (1847-1849). Later, George moved to Evansville and became the leading 19th century band leader there. George Warren's account has not previously been published. Permission to publish it here, gratefully acknowledged, was given by the Labadie Collection, University of Michigan. A link to the Labadie Collection is provided below. The account was probably first written in hand and undated, then typed, probably by a librarian, with two inked-in corrections of dates. The account is presented here in its entirety, with no changes except for correcting a few typographical errors, dividing long sections into paragraphs, and inserting headings. Warren's Birth; Patents Signed by Presidents My father was born in Boston, Mass. in 1798. He and his brother George joined the "Old Boston Brigade Band" while very young. In 1821 my father came west, settled in Cincinnati and followed the profession of music for some time.
Who's Who In Musicals - Additional Bios XI Back on Broadway, he produced the underrated Chicago (1975), was on the producingteams for He originated such roles as Falke in Die Fledermaus (1874), http://www.musicals101.com/who21.htm
Extractions: This vaudeville legend began her career as an operetta soubrette (using her mother's maiden name), appearing in the chorus of The Pearl of Pekin (1889). She soon worked her way into featured roles in such hits as Broadway and London productions of The Belle of Bohemia (1900-01). Using her increasing girth to her advantage, Friganza became one of the most popular "road" stars confirming her success in New York when she triumphed as the Widow Crocker in Broadway's The Prince of Pilsen (1904). She later starred in Twiddle Twaddle The Orchid (1908), and
