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William Burt patents the "Typographer" the first typewriter! (July 23, 1829) Then the Solar Compass and Equatorial Sextant!
On this day in 1829 William A Burt patented the “Typographer”, which was a predecessor to today’s typewriter. According to Burt, the typographer was the first constructed and operating typewriter in the world. Through the years Burt has been referred to as the “father of the typewriter”
Burt’s great-grandson Austin Burt, built a working model of the machine for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Burt used a parchment copy of the original patent (No. 5581X) as a guide. It took him a month to construct the model because many of the parts had to be made by hand! Here’s a picture of the model taken at the University of Minnesota, where the young Burt was an engineering student, and where the model was on display prior to being taken to the World’s Fair in April of 1893.
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July 21, 1947 – Emmett Kelly portrait on the cover of Life Magazine? Music by Murray Mclauchlan!
Originally Posted at Me,Myself, Music and Mysteries….
One of the events that was listed yesterday, on This Day in History was that on July 21, 1947, Loren MacIver’s portrait of Emmett Kelly as Willie the Clown appeared on the cover of Life magazine. This sent my mind off in several directions. My first thought was that I didn’t know which portrait of Emmett Kelly this was, as I have seen a few over the years. So I headed to Google and searched for the portrait….I found this 1947 Emmett Kelly painting by Loren MacIver at Kenyon College’s Digital Kenyon. But what I didn’t find was a cover from LIFE magazine….
Remembering S.I. Hayakawa (July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992) and the San Francisco State College Strike!
When I started reading Subversives by Seth Rosenfeld, I read that Clark Kerr was the president of the University of California, which started me thinking where did S.I. Hayakawa fit into the picture. I remembered him being involved in student demonstrations in California. I even went to the index of the book to look for his name. Well today on 108th anniversary of Mr Hayakawa’s birthday I found out that I was in the right church (California) and the wrong pew (Berkeley). What I didn’t remember was that Mr Hayakawa was the President of San Francisco State University during those turbulent years from 1968 to 1973. Some background on S.I. Hayakawa….
American Forces Begin "Operation Hastings" in Vietnam -July 15,1966 – Music from Phil Ochs!
American Forces Begin “Operation Hastings” in Vietnam -July 15,1966 – Music from Phil Ochs!
A Captured Joan of Arc-handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the Bishop of Beauvais. July 14, 1430!
On this date in the year 1430, a peasant girl, the daughter of Jacques d’Arc and 
Isabelle Romée, known as Joan of Arc, was handed over by the English-allied Burgundian faction to the English and the pro-English Bishop of Beauvais Pierre Cauchon. She would be held prisoner and then put on trial and eventually burned at the stake. From Wikipedia. Joan of Arc
Alexander Butterfield Reveals the Existence of the White House Taping System – July 13, 1973!
So as I sit here, I just opened the book Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals and Reagan’s Rise to Power to continue reading, the paragraph that I began with started: H.R. Haldeman was having a dinner party... That took my mind quickly back, to what I had read earlier, about famous events that happened on this date in 1973.
Evening thoughts : “Navajo Rug” – Grandson Oliver and his Great-Grandparents Clarke!
So I just finished a four mile run, when actually maybe a one mile jog to almost fast walk, I hate the hot weather! Anyway, after I was finished, I collapsed in my chair here in front of the computer and almost fell asleep, I did manage to get up and take a shower. As I was getting out of the shower I was trying to think of what to eat, something maybe quick and light and decided on a fried egg sandwich. That means two eggs on toast….., which in turn leads my mind to “Well, it’s two eggs up on whiskey toast……” and Jerry Jeff ….
