Showing posts with label informative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label informative. Show all posts
Friday, July 22, 2011
Copyright vs Fair Use Law
Though the images, which I have myself largely scanned from my personal collection of photographs and ephemera, some are subject to © by the artist, syndicate that distributed them or otherwise the individual artists. The use here is regardless covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:1. The image illustrates an educational article; its inclusion in the article adds significantly to
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
A moment of time changing the history of employment, the horsedrawn fire engine in route to the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire
found on http://edwardianera.tumblr.com/page/7
Monday, July 18, 2011
A variety of interesting car stuff, on tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com
Imagine, how crude a car has to be to think that 2 hundred miles is an incredible achievementAir pump, relevant tools permanently attached, and a rack to hang the bike while working on it. Installed on campus at the University of Virginia. A 1920's photo of a sign pointing the way to the Lincoln Highway Reason that big wheel is called a Penny FarthingAnd the pain in the butt that a rental car can
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Sunday, July 17, 2011
the drastic effect of the assembly line technique
The large-scale, production-line manufacturing of affordable automobiles was debuted by Ransom Olds at his Oldsmobile factory in 1902. The assembly line style of mass production and interchangeable parts had been pioneered in the U.S. by Thomas Blanchard in 1821, at the Springfield Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts. This concept was greatly expanded by Henry Ford, beginning in 1914.As a result
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model T
Saturday, July 16, 2011
The first bus in America, was built by Mack in 1900
Jack was 14 when he ran away from home, became a mule driver on the railroads and then went on to be an engineer on heav equipment and ships. Later he went into business with his brothersNow, the Mack trucking company has a museum and heritage center in the Mack Customer Center in Allentown Pennsylvania http://www.macktrucks.com/assets/mack/Bulldog/BulldogMagazine2011Volume1.pdf page 3“It gives
interesting distinction, tri 5 sedan delivery vs station wagon
Sedan delivery is classified as a commercial vehicle and therefore a truck, a station wagon is just a car. Which do you think has a better chance of winning against the competition?
B&M bought Flowmaster
Flowmaster was founded in 1983 and really came into their own during the late 1990′s. The company has floundered recently in the face of stiffer competition and though economic times have cut into their market share. B&M Racing hopes that the iconic brand can be restored to its former glory, and sees Flowmaster as a key to expanded beyond their core business of shifters and transmission products.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Ruth Law, first of many record setting barnstormer pilots, bought her first airplane from the Wright Brothers
photo from http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/ info from http://earlyaviators.com/eoliver.htm and http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/law.htmlRuth Law Oliver, the first woman to loop the loop in an airplane, the first to make a night flight and the one- time holder of the Chicago to New York aerial speed record bought her first airplane in 1912 from Orville Wright when she was 21 years old.
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airplane,
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