#Reading IS fundamental

[bailey6too6bailey]

"Tasty Treats"

Bailey Jay

#trans goddess #bailey jay #utterly adorable #tasty treats #glorious cleavage #reading is fundamental #truly scrumptious

[doctorslippery]

#switzerland #tolkien #geo-beauty #landscape #geology #geography #the world #books #library #bookstore #reading #reading is fundamental

[youryurigoddess]

Aziraphale’s most powerful weapon

Aziraphale has already lived more than one lifetime — and not because he’s an immortal cosmic entity older than time itself. He reads books. Literally devours them. And experiences millions of stories and perspectives unimaginable to other angels or demons, even humans themselves.

If you think about it, Aziraphale’s most powerful weapon isn’t the flaming sword or even his pure heart, but the knowledge he’d amassed by reading non-stop through the last six millennia on Earth. Which makes him the strongest, most unpredictable opponent for both Heaven and Hell.

#Yuri is doing her thing #good omens #good omens meta #go2 meta #go3 speculation #aziraphale #in general #go read a book #reading is fundamental

[starqueen87]

Charles Brooks, a resident of Newark, N.J, is credited with inventing the street sweeping trucks in 1896 with revolving brushes.

Street sweeping was a manual job until he invented the self-propelled street sweeper.

—Street sweeping was often a manual labor job in Brooks' time. Keeping in mind that horses and oxen were the main means of transportation — where there is livestock, there is manure. Rather than stray litter as you might see today in the street, there were piles of manure that needed to be frequently removed regularly. In addition, garbage and the contents of chamber pots would end up in the gutter.

The task of street sweeping was not carried out by mechanical equipment, but rather workers who roamed the street sweeping garbage up with a broom into a receptacle. This method clearly required a lot of labor, although it did provide employment.

#Charles Brooks #black inventor #self propelled #street sweeper #read more about him #reading is fundamental #knowledge is power #black history #african american history

[fitbearcatcher]

Hot hunky Geno

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[ginger-by-the-sea]

I literally love literature

#libraries for everyone #gree mood #books forever. #reading is fundamental

[alwaysbewoke]

#reading #education #reading is fundamental #reading is revolutionary #comicbooks

[vaguelysaunteringdown]

Libraries are truly the world’s best invention, second only to books. You mean I can just take this book? For free? That’s crazy.

Also, support your local libraries! For most of them, actual government funding covers only the very basics, and a lot of their funding comes from donations, sponsors, foundations, and the like. And supporting a library can be as simple as buying from library book sales, donating books that you no longer need, or even just visiting and checking out things whenever you’re able to!

(Also, on a different but related note: READ BANNED BOOKS!!!)

#library #libraries #bookish #books #reading #reading is fundamental #books & libraries #public libraries

[ex-frat-man]

#reading is fundamental

[doctorslippery]

#dune #books #library #bookstore #reading #reading is fundamental

[6cunning6linguist6]

Darshelle Stevens

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[partial-boner]

#reading is fundamental

[black-is-beautiful18]

Reading is political and I don’t get why ppl, namely yt ppl, don’t get that. You don’t wanna read diversely cuz you don’t wanna read about politics…as if that’s all diverse books talk about. Like y’all are really stupid and show every day that you think that Black and Brown ppl don’t lead normal lives. Yes we are oppressed but we’re literally still ppl. Authors of color also write in many different genres but you’d rather read the book where the MC has to stop their home from being taken over and literally oppressed by the big bad….The only difference being that the MC is white so the plot somehow doesn’t read as political to you 🤔

#reading is fundamental #reading is political #white readers #white people #art in general is political #diverse books #no one is saying that you absolutely have to read them #we’re just saying that it tells us who to stay away from #unique writes

[starqueen87]

THE WORLD'S FIRST ELECTRIC ROLLER COASTER

Granville T. Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) introduced the “Figure Eight,” the world's first electric roller coaster, in 1892 at Coney Island Amusement Park in New York. Woods patented the invention in 1893, and in 1901, he sold it to General Electric.

Woods was an American inventor who held more than 50 patents in the United States. He was the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars.

In 1884, Woods received his first patent, for a steam boiler furnace, and in 1885, Woods patented an apparatus that was a combination of a telephone and a telegraph. The device, which he called "telegraphony", would allow a telegraph station to send voice and telegraph messages through Morse code over a single wire. He sold the rights to this device to the American Bell Telephone Company.

In 1887, he patented the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph, which allowed communications between train stations from moving trains by creating a magnetic field around a coiled wire under the train. Woods caught smallpox prior to patenting the technology, and Lucius Phelps patented it in 1884. In 1887, Woods used notes, sketches, and a working model of the invention to secure the patent. The invention was so successful that Woods began the Woods Electric Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, to market and sell his patents. However, the company quickly became devoted to invention creation until it was dissolved in 1893.

Woods often had difficulties in enjoying his success as other inventors made claims to his devices. Thomas Edison later filed a claim to the ownership of this patent, stating that he had first created a similar telegraph and that he was entitled to the patent for the device. Woods was twice successful in defending himself, proving that there were no other devices upon which he could have depended or relied upon to make his device. After Thomas Edison's second defeat, he decided to offer Granville Woods a position with the Edison Company, but Woods declined.

In 1888, Woods manufactured a system of overhead electric conducting lines for railroads modeled after the system pioneered by Charles van Depoele, a famed inventor who had by then installed his electric railway system in thirteen United States cities.

Following the Great Blizzard of 1888, New York City Mayor Hugh J. Grant declared that all wires, many of which powered the above-ground rail system, had to be removed and buried, emphasizing the need for an underground system. Woods's patent built upon previous third rail systems, which were used for light rails, and increased the power for use on underground trains. His system relied on wire brushes to make connections with metallic terminal heads without exposing wires by installing electrical contactor rails. Once the train car had passed over, the wires were no longer live, reducing the risk of injury. It was successfully tested in February 1892 in Coney Island on the Figure Eight Roller Coaster.

In 1896, Woods created a system for controlling electrical lights in theaters, known as the "safety dimmer", which was economical, safe, and efficient, saving 40% of electricity use.

Woods is also sometimes credited with the invention of the air brake for trains in 1904; however, George Westinghouse patented the air brake almost 40 years prior, making Woods's contribution an improvement to the invention.

Woods died of a cerebral hemorrhage at Harlem Hospital in New York City on January 30, 1910, having sold a number of his devices to such companies as Westinghouse, General Electric, and American Engineering. Until 1975, his resting place was an unmarked grave, but historian M.A. Harris helped raise funds, persuading several of the corporations that used Woods's inventions to donate money to purchase a headstone. It was erected at St. Michael's Cemetery in Elmhurst, Queens.

LEGACY

▪Baltimore City Community College established the Granville T. Woods scholarship in memory of the inventor.

▪In 2004, the New York City Transit Authority organized an exhibition on Woods that utilized bus and train depots and an issue of four million MetroCards commemorating the inventor's achievements in pioneering the third rail.

▪In 2006, Woods was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

▪In April 2008, the corner of Stillwell and Mermaid Avenues in Coney Island was named Granville T. Woods Way.

#granville t woods #black inventor #invented #world's first #electric roller coaster #1893 #read about him #read about his invention #reading is fundamental #knowledge is power #black history

[archivistsammy]

@winchestergifs 5kparty day 5: thursday, october 13 ➙ fave season

season seven rights

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[fitbearcatcher]

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