This is the first biography of the important but long-forgotten American inventor Charles Francis Jenkins (1867-1934). Historian Donald G. Godfrey documents the life of Jenkins from his childhood in ...Indiana and early life in the West to his work as a prolific inventor whose productivity was cut short by an early death. Jenkins was an inventor who made a difference. As one of America's greatest independent inventors, Jenkins's passion was inventing to meet the needs of his day and the future. When he was away from home for the first time, he struggled to describe to his family the beauty of the Western vistas he saw. Early photography allowed him to share his experiences, but the results showed him both its imperfections and its potential. As an inventor he constantly struggled to improve means of transmitting images, first via film, and later via television. In 1895 Jenkins produced the first film projector able to show a motion picture on a large screen, coincidentally igniting the first film boycott among his Quaker viewers when the film he screened showed a woman's ankle. Jenkins produced the first American television pictures in 1923, and developed the only fully operating broadcast television station in Washington, D.C. transmitting to ham operators from coast to coast as well as programming for his local audience. Jenkins's inventiveness was not limited to mechanical and electronic production of images. His diverse patents include optics, airplane engines, an automobile, and a sanitary milk carton. He also founded the organization now known as the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. Godfrey's biography raises the profile of C. Francis Jenkins from his former place in the footnotes to his rightful position as a true pioneer of today's film and television. Along the way, it provides a window into the earliest days of both motion pictures and television as well as the now-vanished world of the independent inventor.
Steel at the Sault McDowall, Duncan
Steel at the Sault,
c1984, 19881101, 1988, 1988-01-01, 19840101
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Steel at the Sault focuses on the emergence of steelmaking at Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. As Canada's third-largest primary producer, Algoma Steel originated in the adventures of its two founders - the ...flamboyant American promoter F.H. Clergue and the 'last of the multimillionaires,' Sir James Dunn. Algoma's troubled but ultimately fruitful evolution cannot be explained in terms of daring, if at times devious, entrepreneurship along. The dictates of geology, corporate management, and industrial economics also play a crucial role, as do the intricacies of Canadian federalism. The principle thread in the pattern of development, McDowall argues, has been the symbiotic relationship of businessmen and politicians - a relationship typified by the friendship of Sir James Dunn and C.D. Howe, who joined forces at the Sault to pursue the common goal of increased steel production, albeit for different reasons and rewards.
The work is edited with 'Appendices illustrative of the Same Voyage', and introduction, from the 1628 edition 'collected out of the notes of Master Francis Fletcher', collated with British Library, ...Sloane MS 61. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1854.
Francis Daniel Pastorius was one of the first German settlers to
Pennsylvania and a touchstone figure of German-American cultural
heritage. This monumental anthology presents a selection of his
many ...writings in one volume.
Pastorius sailed to North America as a Pietist but found a
unique home among the Quakers in Pennsylvania. Within this early
modern religious context, he was a lawyer, educator, and community
leader; a polymath; and a prolific writer and collector of
knowledge. At the turn of the eighteenth century, Pastorius held
one of the largest manuscript collections in North America and
wrote voluminously in multiple languages. His collecting, curation,
and dissemination represents a unique look at the ways information
was stored, processed, and utilized during the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries in both North America and Europe. This rich
selection of Pastorius's writings on religion, education,
gardening, law and community, and the colony of Pennsylvania-as
well as letters, poems, and numerous encyclopedic and bibliographic
works-shows the mind of a true humanist in action.
Pastorius's works have long been important to the archival study
of early German settlement and the Atlantic world. Now available
together, transcribed, translated, and annotated, his writings will
have widespread significance to the study of early American
literature and history.
