Sunday, January 12, 2020
Acetylene world 2
Following on the prevalence and advantages of acetylene...
A picture from one of Floyd Clymer's books on the T.
Henry with two of his friends, outdoorsman John Burroughs and Thomas Edison.
We know Edison as Mister Electric Light. We don't know anyone as Mister Acetylene.
Union Carbide is the counterpart to GE as systematizer and provider of material and machines, but Union Carbide didn't have any notable inventor/founder figures.
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I hadn't heard of John Burroughs, so I sampled his writings. I'm not impressed. He was a good observer of Nature, but he constantly deleted his own clear and crisp observations and replaced them with Darwinist crap.
He marveled at a hemlock tree that had germinated on a partly floating log. The hemlock had formed roots that clasped the log, and sent out one 6-foot-long horizontal root into the soil on shore. Was this intelligence? If he had simply BELIEVED HIS OWN SENSES he would have said Yes. Instead, he CANCELED AND ERASED his own senses:
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Sidenote: Though Edison's workshop never dealt with acetylene, there is a family connection. Edison's chief mechanic and model builder was John Kruesi. Edison sketched ideas and Kruesi turned them into practical patentable devices. Kruesi's son Paul ended up as head of American Lava, a major manufacturer of acetylene equipment.
Following on the prevalence and advantages of acetylene...
A picture from one of Floyd Clymer's books on the T.
Henry with two of his friends, outdoorsman John Burroughs and Thomas Edison.
We know Edison as Mister Electric Light. We don't know anyone as Mister Acetylene.
Union Carbide is the counterpart to GE as systematizer and provider of material and machines, but Union Carbide didn't have any notable inventor/founder figures.
= = = = =
I hadn't heard of John Burroughs, so I sampled his writings. I'm not impressed. He was a good observer of Nature, but he constantly deleted his own clear and crisp observations and replaced them with Darwinist crap.
He marveled at a hemlock tree that had germinated on a partly floating log. The hemlock had formed roots that clasped the log, and sent out one 6-foot-long horizontal root into the soil on shore. Was this intelligence? If he had simply BELIEVED HIS OWN SENSES he would have said Yes. Instead, he CANCELED AND ERASED his own senses:
In the case of the little hemlock upon the partly submerged log, roots were probably thrown out equally in all directions; on all sides but one they reached the water and stopped growing; but on the land side, the root on top of the log, not meeting with any obstacle, kept growing. It was a case of survival, not of the fittest, but of that which the situation favored.Darwin himself wasn't blinded by Darwin's theories, and made clear observations and clever experiments in plant senses and plant intelligence. Biologists are just now starting to take off the theory goggles, starting to repeat Darwin's own experiments without DarwinIST distortions.
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Sidenote: Though Edison's workshop never dealt with acetylene, there is a family connection. Edison's chief mechanic and model builder was John Kruesi. Edison sketched ideas and Kruesi turned them into practical patentable devices. Kruesi's son Paul ended up as head of American Lava, a major manufacturer of acetylene equipment.
Labels: 1901, Patient things, Smarty-plants
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