Posts Tagged ‘stove’
“What is research but a blind date with knowledge?”*…
Science at work: a fascinating interactive visualization of every paper ever published in Nature.
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As we interpret influence, we might spare a thought for Neil Arnott; he died on this date in 1874. A physician and inventor, he created one of the first forms of the waterbed, the Arnott waterbed for the comfort of patients during prolonged illness. He also invented the economical Arnott stove (which he called a thermometer-stove), which featured a self-regulating fire. And in 1852, he won the Rumford Medal for the construction of the smokeless fire grate, as well as other improvements to ventilation and heating.
“Gag me with a spoon!”*…
One weekend a year, the remote hamlet of Milan, Minn. — population 369 — is the center of the spooniverse.
The 11th annual Spoon Gathering, hosted earlier this month by the Milan Village Arts School, attracted more than 150 carvers from nearly 20 states and several foreign countries.These people are the rock stars of this fast-growing pastime. Their soundtrack is the chunk of a finely honed ax biting crisply into a log, the rasp of a file on steel. At once energetic and ruminative, analytical and philosophical, they transform raw wood into the humblest of human tools, a creation as ancient and elemental as a good bowl of bear meat stew…
Whittle on at “How a tiny Minnesota town became the wooden spoon capital of the country.”
* Valley girl speak, quoted in Frank Zappa’s “Valley Girl”
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As we dig in, we might recall that it was on this date in 1896 that William S. Hadaway, Jr. received the first U.S. patent for an electric stove. It provided a uniform surface distribution of heat from a one-ring spiral coiled conductor.
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