Showing posts with label Sherlock Holmes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sherlock Holmes. Show all posts

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Little Russia - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

Little Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Little Russia (Rus' Minor), sometimes Little or Lesser Rus’ (Russian: Малая Русь or Малороссия; Ukrainian: Мала Русь), is a historical political and geographical term in the Russian language referring to most of the territory of modern-day Ukraine before the 20th century."




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Saturday, April 23, 2011

E. Remington and Sons - - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

The Sholes and Glidden typewriterImage via WikipediaA maid showed me in without ceremony, and as I entered the sitting-room a lady, who was sitting before a Remington typewriter, sprang up with a pleasant smile of welcome. 


E. Remington and Sons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Remington's typewriter


Sholes & Glidden Typewriter, 1876
In 1867 Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Lewis invented another typewriter. The Sholes and Glidden typewriter was the first device that allowed an operator to type substantially faster than a person could write by hand. The patent (U.S. 79,265) was sold for $12,000 to Densmore and Yost, who made an agreement with E. Remington and Sons (then famous as a manufacturer of sewing machines), to commercialize what was known as the Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer. Remington started production of their first typewriter on March 1, 1873 in Ilion, New York. The Type-Writer introduced the QWERTY, designed by Sholes, and the success of the follow-up Remington No. 2 of 1878 – the first typewriter to include both upper and lower case letters via a shift key – led to the popularity of the QWERTY layout.[1][2]"
  
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Hansen Writing Ball - - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes


The keyboard of the writing ball

Hansen Writing Ball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

experimented with different placements of the letters to achieve the fastest writing speed. Malling-Hansen placed the letters on short pistons that went directly through the ball and down to the paper. This, together with the placement of the letters so that the fastest writing fingers struck the most frequently used letters, made the Hansen Writing Ball the first typewriter to produce text substantially faster than a person could write by hand.


Writing ball - model from 1870

Writing ball - model from 1878
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Ruins, Whorlton Moor - - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

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Ruins Of A Copper Mine Chimney On Bodmin Moor - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

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The Hound of the Baskervilles 9: - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles 9: Second Report of Dr. Watson
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The Hound of the Baskervilles 8: - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles 8: First Report of Dr. Watson

Sidney Paget, 1901

Sidney Paget, 1901

Sidney Paget, 1901



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The Hound of the Baskervilles 7: - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles 7: The Stapletons of the Merripit HouseSidney Paget, 1901

Sidney Paget, 1901


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White Cotton Grass - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

Black Labrador Dog In The Marsh And White Cotton Grass On Isle Of Anglesey North Wales Stock Photo 32270800 : Shutterstock: "Black Labrador Dog in the marsh and white cotton grass on Isle of Anglesey North Wales"

stock photo : Black Labrador Dog in the marsh and white cotton grass on Isle of Anglesey North Wales
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white cotton grass - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

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Covered with white cotton grass stock photo
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Monolith, Ruin, - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

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Monolith, Ruin, Kilmartin Valley, Argyll, Scotland

Code Number:
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Monolith, Ruin, Kilmartin Valley, Argyll, Scotland
Keywords:
Great Britain, English, Architecture, Structure, Scenic, Europe, European
Image by:
Steve Leialoha
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