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1907 Curtain rod. A curtain rod or traverse rod is a device used to suspend curtains, usually above windows or along the edges of showers, though also wherever curtains might be used. The flat, telescoping curtain rod was invented by Charles W. Kirsch of Sturgis, Michigan, in 1907. However, they were not in use until the 1920s.
Curtain rod Ready-made curtain rail.. A curtain rod, curtain rail, curtain pole, or traverse rod is a device used to suspend curtains, usually above windows or along the edges of showers or bathtubs, though also wherever curtains might be used.
Ernst Gustav Kirsch (September 13, 1841 – January 8, 1901) was a German engineer. Kirsch was educated at Sorbonne, in Zürich and in Berlin. He was a professor from 1874 at the Chemnitz University of Technology in Chemnitz, Germany. Kirsch is primarily known for the Kirsch equations describing the elastic stress state around a hole.
In March, 2023 Kirsch reported that he'd offered a woman sitting next to him on a first class Delta flight $100,000 to remove her mask for the entire flight. She refused. [17] In October 2021, Kirsch founded the anti-vaccine group Vaccine Safety Research Foundation (VSRF), [18] which created ads depicting deaths the group attributed to vaccines.
Traveler curtains remain at a fixed elevation and open and close horizontally, break up and meet in the middle, and consequently require a minimum of fly space. The curtains are typically made of velvet [1] and decorated with a series of vertical box pleats along the top edge. Traveler curtains may be rigged with or without an operating line.
Kirschwasser, produced in Germany and bottled at 40% ABV. Kirschwasser (/ ˈ k ɪər ʃ v ɑː s ər /, UK also /-v æ s ər /, German: [ˈkɪɐʃvasɐ] ⓘ; German for 'cherry water'), or just Kirsch (German: ⓘ; the term used in Switzerland and France, less so in Germany), is a clear, colourless brandy from Germany, Switzerland, and France, traditionally made from double distillation of ...
TRAVERSE Accounting and Business Software (enterprise resource planning - ERP) is a business accounting software suite for small- to medium-sized businesses using the Microsoft Windows operating system. First produced in 1994 by Open Systems, Inc., TRAVERSE is a group of interrelated applications which operate in tandem.
The Kirsch equations describe the elastic stresses around a hole in an infinite plate under one directional tension. They are named after Ernst Gustav Kirsch.