Come On ORB

The 138 th Preakness @ Pimlico
in Maryland. Today  is a fast track and
it is 80 degrees
They say the tension at the paddock is Heavy.
Oh! I hope "ORB" wins. He sure is a strong
come from behind horse.
Good Luck Shug may you have another win.

Time will tell, the Race is on TV now at 4pm.

Hope you watch it.

Orb May 14th Orb winner of Derby
AWE SHUCKS!
no Triple crown winner this year. I never would have bet the winner, The Jockey sure made a come back
on Ox Bow.
The Winner is OXBOW with Gary Stevens
as Jockey. He is 50 years old.

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From Telautograph to I Pad 123 years

From Telautograph to the Apple iPad

Take a look at the
 first 123 years before.
My Dad was very much
a part of Telautograph.
I can remember all the info
he pumped into my
little head at 6 years old.

From Telautograph
to Apple iPad:
The Tablet PC's
First 123 Years 

Need to Know:::
The telautograph, a precursor to the modern Fax machine,
transmits electrical impulses recorded by  Potentiometers
at the sending station to service machanisims,
at the receiving station a drawing or signature made by the sender.
can get to anywhere in 1900's..It was the first such device
to transmit drawings to a stationary sheet of paper;
previous inventions in Europe had used rotating drums
to make such transmissions.

The telautograph's invention is attributed to Elisha Gray.
He patented it on July 31, 1888. Gray's patent stated that
the telautograph will allow one to transmit his own
handwriting to a distant point . LIKE A FAX MACHINE.

My Dad was the
first to over see all
 installations in Texas.

With this invention
you can sit down
in your office ,
take a pencil in your hand,
write a message to me,
and as your pencil moves,

a pencil here in the laboratory moves simultaneously,
and forms the same letters and words in the same way.
You write in NYC and it is instantly reproduced here
in Chicago fac-simile. You may write in any language,
use a code or cipher, no matter, a fac-simile is produced here.
Yes in 1940's you could do this and it was great for Radio.
Used during the War.




development, starting with
Elisha Gray, whose 1888
"Telautograph"

This was constantly
changing I quess this
as about late 1940




Dad use to take me to work with him when he visited the
Rice Hotel in Houston. Everyone knew him.
I got lot's of attention from all the Ladies. It was Fun.

Mercy Me!!

I am Old, I remember

using a crank phone.

It was only Ma Bell then.

I bet alot of people never

 knew about Telautograph.

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Happy Mothers Day - Deitrich

Happy Mothers  Day to all my Bloggers
and to  "Marlene"

"Where have all
 the flowers gone"

She sang that
when I saw her
in Miami Beach.
Marlene Dietrich
27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992
Actress and Singer
I have such a memory of Dietrich. She was majistic as a
performer, the only one on a big stage. She filled the air.
A very small figure that mesmerized the whole theater.

Unlike her professional celebrity, which was carefully
crafted and maintained, Dietrich's personal life was kept
out of public view. Dietrich, who was bisexual,
enjoyed the thriving gay scene of the time and drag balls
of 1920s Berlin. She also defied conventional gender roles
through her boxing at Turkish trainer and prizefighter
Sabri Mahir’s boxing studio in Berlin,
which opened to women in the late 1920s.
I never knew this. She was Married and had a Daughter.

As a child I saw the movie "The Scarlett Empress".
After all these years I still remember her riding a horse
through the Palace. The movie set was very scary,
with weird statues etc. It is a classic.

Dietrich was known to have strong political convictions
and the mind to speak them. In interviews, Dietrich stated
that she had been approached by representatives of the
 Nazi Party to return to Germany, but had turned them down flat.
Dietrich, a staunch anti-Nazi,
became an American citizen in 1939.

And those legs! The advertisements  Blue Angel
focused  almost exclusively on them,
and the most famous
still from the film still circulates widely today:



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