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Historic 1946 Ebike from England
http://www.ebikehub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=240
Heres the pic, there is a story about it in the news section www.ebikehub.com |
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Historic 1946 Ebike from England
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:18:29 -0800 (PST), chewbacca
wrote: http://www.ebikehub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=240 Heres the pic, there is a story about it in the news section www.ebikehub.com Dear John, By 1960, Bowden's impractical 1946 electrical-assist design had been reduced to a 50-pound "streamlined" lookalike with no assist: http://nbhaa.com/indexBowden.html If you read to the end of the article, you discover that it ended up powering its "futuristic" head lights, tailight, and horn with D-cell batteries instead of generating any electric power on its own. Cheers, Carl Fogel |
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On Feb 6, 11:18 am, chewbacca wrote:
http://www.ebikehub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=240 Heres the pic, there is a story about it in the news section www.ebikehub.com Is that Richard Nixon on the right? That guy, hounding communists wherever he went... tf |
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:55:55 -0800 (PST), wrote:
On Feb 6, 11:18 am, chewbacca wrote: http://www.ebikehub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=240 Heres the pic, there is a story about it in the news section www.ebikehub.com Is that Richard Nixon on the right? That guy, hounding communists wherever he went... tf Dear TF, Yesterday I was looking into Steinmetz, Einstein, and Tesla and stumbled over a similar case of who's-that-in-the-picture. Here's the famous picture of Einstein and Steinmetz, showing the two geniuses posing together: http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/history/st...z_einstein.jpg But fans of Tesla suspect dirty work at the cross-roads because there's a version of the same photo that shows another fellow between Steinmetz and Einstein who looks a lot like Tesla. Here are both versions of the photo: http://www.radlab.com/img/Tesla.jpg In fact, there's yet another version of the photo that shows a fourth and fifth man in the corners: http://www.divus.cz/images/umelec/tes04-mini.jpg Horrors! It turns out to be an air-brushed GE marketing department fraud: "The heavily retouched photo, with only Steinmetz and Einstein, is originally from the book "The Steinmetz Era", by B. Gorowitz. This was sponsored by GE and was published by what I believe is their own internal publishing label (Elfun Hall Publications). The caption in that book for the photo reads 'Another of Steinmetz's distinguished visitors was Albert Einstein who came to Schenectady in 1921. It was in that year Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics'. " "Perhaps no photo of that event was taken, so the other photo was doctored up to manufacture such a record. The real photo was also taken in 1921, but was not in Schenectady, NY, but in New Brunswick, at a wireless symposium." http://www.pupman.com/listarchives/1.../msg00280.html Here's the full original photograph, showing 18 men (including Langmuir) next to Steinmetz and Einstein: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...omerset_01.jpg Anyway, Tesla fans go crazy about how those GE *******s deliberately air-brushed Tesla out of the picture of Steinmetz and Einstein to rob him of his rightful-- Oops. The guy in the middle isn't Tesla. One guy in a heavy coat and hat with a big black moustache looks a lot like another: "After conferring with Leland Anderson and searching back to original sources which included the an article in the New York Herald, and the original caption for the photo, it has been determined that the man standing between Einsten and Steinmetz was one John Carson, who was an engineer for AT&T. This photo has also been doctored to air-brush out all individuals except for Einstein and Steinmetz by the GE people who use it to imply a special relationship between Steinmetz and Einstein." http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tesla/esp_tesla_2.htm So that's Johnny Carson aibrushed out of the photo between Steinmetz and Einstein. I'm not sure which one of the other guys is Ed McMahon. Cheers, Carl Fogel |
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