Have you ever heard of ...

[red750]

I thought there was a thread called Who Knew, but a search didn't find it.

 

Have you ever heard of a telephane? (Correct spelling)

[old man emu]

Another gem hidden in the bowels of our unreported history.

 

At first I thought you suggesting that the word was an attempt to put into letters the sound of Inspector Clouseau  saying "telephone".

[onetrack]

The word sounds like the description of someone using profanity over a telephone!

 

Henry Sutton was an amazing bloke who gained no recognition for his outstanding inventiveness. This was no doubt due to the fact that he wasn't located in the centre of the industrial development universe, he had no degree of any kind, and he patented nothing that he invented, believing that everyone should benefit freely from his inventions - the exact opposite of the American corporate approach!

[facthunter]

AMERICA Colonises with CAPITAL and Cult religion.. Graduated from slavery and racism.. The wild west still rules.. Nev

[red750]

There was an episode of Aussie Inventions That Changed The World on the History Channel last night, which included a report on Sutton and the telephane, which was the forerunner of the television. Logie Baird used Suttons telephane to base his television invention on, without giving credit.

Sutton also designed an ornithopter, an aircraft with flapping wings, but a word search on the Wikipedia page for ornithopter could find no reference to Sutton. 

 

Henry Sutton, 1856 - 1912, was born in Ballarat and home-schooled by his mother until age 11. He had no formal education. His most famous invention was a battery that not only stored electricity, but could be recharged. He never patented any of his inventions.

[facthunter]

Would he have any connection to the Suttons who make dies etc at Maryborough Vic. these days.. They'll  make any tap or die you want and good quality adjustable reamers also.  Nev

[pmccarthy]

His family had a bicycle works and later motorcycles. He designed a TV system in the 1880s (I think) so he could watch the Melbourne cup from Ballarat but the telephone lines could not deliver the bandwidth he needed.

[Old Koreelah]

14 hours ago, old man emu said:

...I thought you suggesting that the word was an attempt to put into letters the sound of Inspector Clouseau  saying "telephone".

Yesterday in Paris we had a very cheerful cabbie. None of us could speak enough of the other’s language to converse, but he caused all his Aussie passengers to erupt with laughter when he started humming Henri Mancini’s them to The Pink Panther...

[Marty_d]

We had a waiter like that when we were in Paris a few years ago.  Real clown.  He didn't have a word of English and we spoke zero French, but even so he kept us laughing the whole time.

 

I also went for a joyflight with a French pilot in a Savannah, from a strip down near Uzes.  I wish I had more French at the time, because he was an interesting chap - even though we didn't speak each other's languages, he let me know he used to fly Mirages for the Armée de l'air.

[red750]

Speaking of speaking French, on Australia's Got Talent on Monday, one of the contestants came on and introduced himself. "Bo jour, I am from Fronce".

He started singing opera in French, and soon started removing all his clothes, until all he had was a towel, which he swirled around himself, almost revealing everything. All the females were shrieking. After comments from the judges, he said "Au revoir". Shane Jacobson asked him something and he said, "No mate, I'm an Aussie, born in Perth." Broke everyone up.

[red750]

Have you ever heard of a pizzly?    No Google cheating!

[facthunter]

NO . Nev

[onetrack]

Nope.

[pmccarthy]

No but I know what a pizzle is and what a pizzling is.

[red750]

A pizzly is a hybrid species of bear, a cross between a polar bear and a grizzly bear. According to Sir David Attenborough, it is now a recognised species. There are a range of colourings.

 

[facthunter]

The Canardly Bear is the one old folks have to deal with.. Nev

[red750]

Like other hybrid species, the nonclemature depends upon the pairing. Polar father/grizzly mother is a pizzly, grizzly father/polar mother is a grolar cub.

[facthunter]

Nomenclature  . Bit of a tongue Tyer (I looked it up).  Nev

[facthunter]

I also found out a Non Sequitur is NOT a set of blunt pruning shears. Nev

[red750]

13 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Nomenclature  . Bit of a tongue Tyer (I looked it up).  Nev

Sorry Nev. I usually check first. Bit lazy today.

[red750]

One last fact. Unlike mules, pizzlies/grolars are fertile, so they can breed.

[red750]

Have you ever heard of Gilbert Toyne?

 

The tragic story of Gilbert Toyne.

[onetrack]

What an interesting story - but that article is not the whole story of Gilbert Toynes lifes - the whole story is here .....

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Toyne

 

Lance Hill virtually copied the Toyne Aeroplane hoist. You'd imagine he must have infringed Toynes patents somewhere, or perhaps the patents had run out by the time he produced his version.

 

EDIT: - Yes, I found this article which outlines Lance Hill copying the Toyne Aeroplane hoist in 1947, because the 1925 patent of Toynes had expired the year before.

 

https://www.pittwateronlinenews.com/hills-hoist-collectors-corner.php

 

Edited October 21, 2022 by onetrack

[pmccarthy]

Another Mr Hill was selling rotary clothes lines in the USA after 1870. I have a 1902 Sears catalogue advertising them. The Australian Hills Hoist myth is just lazy journalism.