Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for May 03, 2018
May 02, 2018
May 04, 2018
Transcript:
richard's poor almanac discarded washington by richart thompson briefly, in 1906, they tried mooring zeppelins to the washington monument. but everybody hated climbing down the little ladder & the lightning rod kept poking teeny holes in the gasbag. minks allen's minkyard capitol mink works minks a-plenty in 1893-5 the area around 8th & c st. nw was known as the "mink ranching district." the smell was unbelievable. the old dept. of health & human services building had a 90 foot tall statue on top called "the spirit of mercy succoring everybody." because of weight concerns it was made of grout, chalk & papier mache. it lasted two weeks. hirshhorn's cyclorama live french arty oolala paris the hirshhorn was origina;;y a cyclorama entitled "bohemian paris" featuring live nude art models. after a few visits from the vice squad they were forced to put in some real art instead.
I did like it better in color. And that isn’t a Zeppelin depicted unless it was one of their smaller earlier models for 1906.Now if they only had installed an elevator it would have worked for much longer time. Otis must have had elevators by then.
Otis was founded in Yonkers, New York in 1853 by Elisha Otis. It was acquired by United Technologies in 1976 and is a wholly owned subsidiary. Otis has more than 64,000 employees, with 2014 revenue of US$13.0 billion. The company headquarters are located in Farmington, Connecticut.
Count von Zeppelin had been working on various guidable rigid airship prototypes from as early as 1885, and his first airship was flown in 1900. Initially finance for the research was supplied by the count himself, by private donations, and even a lottery. With the growing success of each flight, public interest also grew. In 1908, the Zeppelin LZ 4 was destroyed during a high-profile test flight. This proved fortunate, since it caused a flood of public support. The ensuing donation campaign collected over 6 million German marks which was used to set up both ‘Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH’ and the Zeppelin foundation.2 “Luftschiffbau” or “airship”. Both by Wikipedia