Posts Tagged ‘clippers’
Taking it to the streets…
From traditional road signs…
… to the more modern electric variety…
… to the road itself…
… local artists and hackers around the world are adding spice to the daily drive. See more at Web Urbanist’s “Culture Jamming: New Subversive Signs of Our Times.”
As we search for spray paint in an environmentally-friendly non-aerosol can, we might recall that it was on this date in 1902 that Henry Leland formed the Cadillac Automobile Company. When Henry Ford left the Henry Ford Company with several of his top lieutenants earlier that year to start the Ford Motor Company, the stranded financiers asked Leland, a master engineer, to appraise the plant and equipment for sale. In the event, Leland bought the assets and re-started the operation, naming the new venture after his ancestor, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, the founder of the city of Detroit. The company’s logo– the crest– is based on a coat of arms that Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac had created at the time of his marriage in 1687.
But while Leland is best remembered for Cadillac, he has arguably touched more lives via his invention of electric barber clippers.
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