Philosophy
Some of us have no idea who Raymond Loewy was. Best said... industrial designer and probably best known for his design of the streamlined GG1 of the Pennsylvania Railroad. My youth longed for the model train engine but, alas, we had A. C. Gilbert's American Flyer line and they never offered the engine. Lionel did but Lionel trains were expensive and took up a lot of space. Nevertheless, the Penn RR GG1 was a cool streamlined engine and quite popular. It was the lead engine for the Broadway Limited run from New York to Chicago.
Google paid tribute to him today...
Raymond Loewy [Wikipedia]
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Philosophy
Raymond Loewy--birthday
Some of us have no idea who Raymond Loewy was. Best said... industrial designer and probably best known for his design of the streamlined GG1 of the Pennsylvania Railroad. My youth longed for the model train engine but, alas, we had A. C. Gilbert's American Flyer line and they never offered the engine. Lionel did but Lionel trains were expensive and took up a lot of space. Nevertheless, the Penn RR GG1 was a cool streamlined engine and quite popular. It was the lead engine for the Broadway Limited run from New York to Chicago.
Google paid tribute to him today...
- Tragic And Spectacular Video And Predictable Physics
"The Physics of High-Speed Trains" by Patrick Di Justo July 25th, 2013 The New Yorker On Wednesday evening, a train travelling from Madrid to Ferrol, in northwestern Spain, derailed just as it was about to enter the Santiago de Compostela station. At...
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Raymond C. Moore February 20th, 1892 to April 16th, 1974 From left, Raymond C. Moore, William W. Hambleton, and Frank C. Foley. Raymond C. Moore was an American paleontologist [University of Kansas] known for his work on Paleozoic crinoids, bryozoans,...
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "the Last Man"
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Romantic literature--that we are familiar. But Mary Shelley also wrote a futuristic novel in 1826, The Last Man...the future and a plague. Wikipedia provides the following... Volume 1 ...
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This is interesting. I would cast a vote for James Watt's steam engine. "Science museum's top 10 objects" by Sean Coughlan June 9th, 2009 BBC News Which was the more important innovation - the railway revolution ushered in by Stephenson's...
- "cuil" Again
Chris Wilson of Slate wrote: In a 1966 review of the new Random House Dictionary, Kurt Vonnegut wrote that the key to understanding a new dictionary was to "look up ain't and like." These two definitions are the quickest way, Vonnegut promises us,...