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Great American Inventors/Inventions

Invention: Battery powered home Smoke Detector (1965)

Inventor: Duane D Pearsall ( Smoke Guard ) and engineer Lyman Blackwell

Duane Pearsall is considered the "father of smoke detectors".

Lyman Blackwell

 

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Oh man, the Reveeaahr crowd is the worst! Ooof! You also have the mix of Saugus punks and Malden derilects lmaooo.

Well Revere is near the very top of the Covid-19 cases in Mass. Going into that theater now is suicide.

Yay for us all that Amazon is in groundZero...just great.

 

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Great American Inventors/Inventions


Invention: Battery powered home Carbon Monoxide Detector (1993)

Inventor: First Alert

First Alert - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

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Great American Inventors/Inventions

Invention: Swivel/spring/wheelcasters/armed Office Chair (1849)

2020

1850

Inventor: Thomas E. Warren

Wow! WTF!!! Office chairs have been around for 170 years! Never would have guessed they are that old..

This would make a great Jeopardy question.

 

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Always admire this pic every time I see it and it just popped up on twitter I thought I'd share it.

US Naval & aerial might in San Diego naval base.. Unmatched and unparalleled in the world.

 

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This is in Allston, Ant.

 

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This is in Allston, Ant.

haha

 

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Great American Inventors/Inventions

Invention: Above ground metal Fire Hydrant (1801)

Inventor: Frederick Graff

Verisk records 8.9 million fire hydrants in the United States

Verisk reached a national milestone this past February with the recording of 8.9 million hydrants in its GIS fire hydrant database. The GIS database is the only one of its kind in the United States and includes the precise location and functionality of each hydrant as well as other static water...

www.verisk.com

 

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Fire hydrants are one of the great, American industrial inventions. That's one of those that has saved many lives you would think since they started running them round cites and towns.

BTW, I asked the top dog mods in the suggestions thread if they could do us a favor and unban Nilgiri since it appears he's gotten a perma ban since the new format was introduced. I told them that we'd talk to him and get him to drop whatever it was that kept getting him banned since he is a great member and very intelligent and we enjoyed his presence and it would be nice to see him back again. I think they can make an exception in this case since the guy contributed a heck of lot more quality than all the idiotic trolls around here. It's been a day now and they haven't responded yet so we'll see what happens. I hope they consider it.

 

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Fire hydrants are one of the great, American industrial inventions. That's one of those that has saved many lives you would think since they started running them round cites and towns.

Trying to find a list of countries in the world with Fire Hydrants.
Brazil, Canada, China, Czech, Finland, Germany (mostly popup), Greece, Ireland, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, UK. Maybe it is common.

Speaking of unsafe inventions...

LOL idea! But the guy has a deathwish.

BTW, I asked the top dog mods in the suggestions thread if they could do us a favor and unban Nilgiri since it appears he's gotten a perma ban since the new format was introduced. I told them that we'd talk to him and get him to drop whatever it was that kept getting him banned since he is a great member and very intelligent and we enjoyed his presence and it would be nice to see him back again. I think they can make an exception in this case since the guy contributed a heck of lot more quality than all the idiotic trolls around here. It's been a day now and they haven't responded yet so we'll see what happens. I hope they consider it.

Well we'll see. I guess by default he takes more crap than the both of us combined.

 

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Great American Inventors/Inventions

Invention: The Ice Cream Truck (~1920)

Ice cream van - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

A distinctive feature of ice cream vans is their melodic chimes, and often these take the form of a famous and recognizable tune.
Popular ice cream truck tunes in the
United States are "The Mister Softee Jingle", "Turkey in the Straw", "Do Your Ears Hang Low?", "Pop Goes The Weasel", "The Entertainer",[1] "Music Box Dancer", "Home on the Range", "It's a Small World", "Go Tell Aunt Rhody", "Für Elise", "Little Brown Jug", "The Picnic" (a Japanese children's song usually played with a recording of a young woman saying "hello" at the beginning of the song), and "Camptown Races". In some places in the U.S., ice cream trucks play the song "Ice Cream" by Andre Nickatina (essentially just "Turkey in the Straw" with bass).

In Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, popular ice cream van tunes include "Greensleeves", "It's Now Or Never"/"Just One Cornetto", "Whistle While You Work" in Crewe and Nantwich, "You Are My Sunshine" in Vale Royal, "Teddy Bears' Picnic" in Sheffield, and "Match of the Day" in other places.


Inventor: Harry Burt (Good Humor)

 

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LOL!

Not bad stats for a Southern town

Peachtree City, Georgia (GA 30269, 30290) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news, sex offenders

 

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Well we'll see. I guess by default he takes more crap than the both of us combined.

That's true for sure. And I understand the default part is tricky because the other side has their own resentments and legitimate beefs, but if he's allowed to be a member of the forum, he should be granted the same respects that all other members get. But it's a sensitive issue there's no doubt about it. It's too bad and I doubt my request will get even an answer back, which is also too bad in of itself. It is what it is and at least we tried.

Speaking of unsafe inventions...
LOL idea! But the guy has a deathwish.

That guy is nuts. But those cartridges are for ramset nail guns and you can just buy them at Home Depot or any lumber yard that carries them. I have a bunch of them and the colors dictate the strength and I believe the yellow ones are the strongest followed by the red ones. Use them all the time and there are ramsets that you have to use a hammer to strike the pin which then strikes the cartridge (that was the old style) which he used for that mechanism he created while the new ones have a standard trigger that flicks the internal hammer which strikes the cartridge just like a regular pistol. They're easily available on the shelf and it looks like that's what that guy used. Pretty smart and it's probably a much less caliber than say a 9mm or something like that. Good thing he didn't go that way LOL!

 

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Well we'll see. I guess by default he takes more crap than the both of us combined.

lol, looks like the mods deleted my post requesting Nilgiri's unbanning! That's disappointing, but oh well, we tried. Maybe a larger member petition would work better.

Halloween coming up, this 1,800 lbs. pumpkin was brought to Boston Public Market today. Dang some of those things get huge, ey.

 

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lol, looks like the mods deleted my post requesting Nilgiri's unbanning! That's disappointing, but oh well, we tried. Maybe a larger member petition would work better.

Halloween coming up, this 1,800 lbs. pumpkin was brought to Boston Public Market today. Dang some of those things get huge, ey.

Yeah I had a feeling with all his bans his days were numbered. Wasn't following his replies as I'm guessing he spends most of his time in some Asia forum I/we don't follow.


I hear too many stories of big pumpkin shenanigans (like injecting water) that I'm skeptical of it.