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George William Jones (1860-1942) was a British printer and type designer of the late nineteenth and twentieth century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Jones was born in Upton-upon-Severn in Worcestershire and developed a considerable reputation as a fine printer , printing among other work elegant stationery.
Wooden dandy horse (around 1820), a patent-infringing copy of the first two-wheeler Original Laufmaschine of 1817 made to measure.. The dandy horse, an English nickname for what was first called a Laufmaschine ("running machine" in German), then a vélocipède or draisienne (in French and then English), and then a pedestrian curricle or hobby-horse, [1] or swiftwalker, [2] is a human-powered ...
It is the first reliable claim for a practically used precursor to the bicycle, basically the first commercially successful two-wheeled, steerable, human-propelled machine, nicknamed hobby-horse or dandy horse. [1] Drais's dandy horse, called Draisine in German, whose name was inherited by the rail vehicle. (Drawing published in 1817.)
The construction of the boneshaker was similar to the dandy horse: wooden wheels with iron tires and a framework of wrought iron. As the name implies it was extremely uncomfortable, but the discomfort was somewhat ameliorated by a long flat spring that supported the saddle and absorbed some of the shocks from rough road surfaces.
A wooden balance bike. A balance bike (or run bike) is a bicycle without pedals that learners propel by pushing their feet against the ground. [1] By allowing children to focus on developing their sense of balance and coordination before introducing pedalling, balance bikes enable independent riding more quickly than training wheels.
Harry Mendell, U.S. – invented the first digital sampling synthesizer; Joy Mangano (born 1956), U.S. – household appliances; Anna Mangin (1844–1931) – American inventor, educator, caterer and women's rights campaigner; Charles Mantoux (1877–1947), France – Mantoux test (tuberculosis) Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937), Italy – radio ...
The Caslon foundry continued to be prosperous for some more decades, licensing the Cheltenham typeface from American Type Founders [132] and issuing a specimen designed by the leading printer George W. Jones. [111] [133] The old house that had been the foundry's base for over 170 years was demolished in 1910 and replaced by modern premises.
The strip was originally titled Jak before changing to Jak and Todd in 2007 after the Dandy went Xtreme. Jak was the Dandy's cover star from 2004 to 2007. Originally ran from 1997 to 1999. Appeared for a second series from 2000 to 2003 as "Jak and Spike" A third series ran from 2004 to 2010, with a one-off reprint in 2012. Jimmy Hansen: David ...