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To: B4Ranch

I saw a Highway Patrol officer help a woman change her tire today. :)


21 posted on 01/03/2011 8:21:13 PM PST by DLfromthedesert
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To: DLfromthedesert

Was he standing there explaining what to do next or was he actually getting his hands dirty and allowing the woman to observe?


26 posted on 01/03/2011 8:59:21 PM PST by B4Ranch (Do NOT remain seated until this ride comes to a full and complete stop! We're going the wrong way!)
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To: DLfromthedesert

I’m at WhatABurber buying a Chocolate Shake :-]


27 posted on 01/03/2011 11:07:10 PM PST by devane617 (NEVER feed your cats canned Tuna fish. Mercury poisoning.)
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To: DLfromthedesert

Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14. While still in high school, Farnsworth had begun to conceive of a system that could capture moving images in a form that could be coded onto radio waves and then transformed back into a picture on a screen. Boris Rosing in Russia had conducted some crude experiments in transmitting images 16 years before Farnsworth’s first success. Also, a mechanical television system, which scanned images using a rotating disk with holes arranged in a spiral pattern, had been demonstrated by John Logie Baird in England and Charles Francis Jenkins in the United States earlier in the 1920s. However, Farnsworth’s invention, which scanned images with a beam of electrons, is the direct ancestor of modern television. The first image he transmitted on it was a simple line. Soon he aimed his primitive camera at a dollar sign because an investor had asked, “When are we going to see some dollars in this thing, Farnsworth?”


32 posted on 10/31/2018 7:58:46 PM PDT by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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