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You know you wanna join on the talk page ;-) Haha, Redwolf24 14:38, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Industrial Revolution

Just in case you missed it, you might want to look at a chunk of text that has been added three times (and removed twice) to the Industrial Revolution article. It is presently in the Causes section, and begins "From about 1100, the population of Europe rose, which is because there was recovery from the disorder in the early medieval times..." and runs to the end of the section.

It looks to me suspiciously like a school paper, stuffed, without a lot of thought, into the article. It could, I suppose, be salvaged, but this is really not my field. I thought perhaps you might see fit to clean it up, or just delete it again?

TIA, Mwanner 21:12, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Hello

Thanks for the welcome and the note. I'd very much like to see the searchable full text of the early editions of the Britannica online, ideally with the illustrations. I just don't know that I'll be doing it manually anytime soon ... ! I suppose I'm hoping for someone to tweak optical character recognition to better handle specific typefaces, alphabets, etc. used in these old volumes and re-scan them to a far higher degree of accuracy. I wonder what Google is doing with their new project, they have the money and talent for this, and if they will do the EB? flux.books 14:15, 20 October 2005 (UTC)


Thanks

Hi Tony: Thanks for the vote of confidence. I think I would be better at copyediting than what the Wikisource project is doing, namely becuase, I don't have a scanner and I also don't have a copy of EB11 at home. I do have access to the handy edition at work. The type is small but manageable to read. I would be happy to help in other ways (see copyediting above). Let me know how you want to procede. Best regards, FeanorStar7 18:17, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

1911 EB

I'd love to help with the 1911EB project. I've moved hundreds (it seems!) from the online OCR version to Wikipedia. However, I don't have a copy of the original. I could fix some obvious things, but I'd not be able to make it final without a copy or facsimile, because, as you saw with the "Viel-Castel" thing, some stuff is so tricky to identify. But yes, I love doing this kind of editing. --DanielCD 20:37, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Chambers

Hi there ... working on Ephraim Chambers has been on my list for a while, so I'm glad I was able to improve it. I wrote a paper about the Cyclopaedia a while ago and was surprised to find how little literature there is out there on either the Cyclopaedia or Chambers -- very little is known about him and not that many people have even heard of him. I'll check the British Biographical Index though, thanks. Fixing up the Cyclopaedia article is my next task... Brassratgirl 04:34, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Hello

Category:Wikipedians born in the 1930s is up for deletion. I believe on the "by age" metawiki it says you are from the 1930s so I thought I'd mention this to you to get a sense of what, if anything, your view on it would be.--T. Anthony 06:33, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikisource

Tony, thanks for the invite to join your efforts on Wikisource. I've just created an account there (as you already know ;-) ), but I wouldn't rely on too much activity from me. My editing lately has been pretty much restricted to maintenance work here, and I'm afraid that I've let Wikipolitics suck me in, which is pretty depressing. I'll try and rekindle some enthusiasm to make some positive contributions soon.

I have two tasks sitting in the back of my mind, that you might have the answer to, or can point me in the right direction. One is to track down the birthplace of Charles Babbage (although even his biographers seem uncertain, from the comments I've seen so far). The second (and perhaps something which has a more definite answer) is to find out what is the difference between a tilt hammer and a trip hammer. I did some hunting a while back, and there does seem to be a difference because some foundries are documented as having both, but I couldn't discern a clear definition. In my mind, it started to seem that a trip hammer was in constant operation, whereas a tilt hammer was 'on demand'. Any interest?

Finally, an apology. You left a message on my talk page some time ago regarding looking at the Industrial Revolution article after some changes that you made, and I failed to respond. I treat the internet in quite a different way than I treat interactions in real life, so I'm sure I come over as quite rude on occasion. Hope you didn't take offence. Cheers, Noisy | Talk 14:39, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

HisPhis

I don't know if you've come across the Wikipedia:WikiProject_History_of_Science yet, but the project would clearly benefit from your involvement. Take a look? Cheers, JackyR 14:41, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Trip Hammers

Just wandering around, I saw this: [1]... would you consider that text for Hammer mill, perhaps sourced? That article really needs something! (I found out how barren it was when working on Redridge Steel Dam which fed a stamp mill... another name for a hammermill, I think but the hammers are used for ore extraction rather than metal forming.) ++Lar: t/c 15:17, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Essay & Beatrice Warde

Thank you for the kind words about the essay on my userpage; it's gratifying to know that others like what I wrote. I was unaware of the Printing Office text -- thank you so much for pointing it out to me! — Catherine\talk 22:41, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the lovely article on Beatrice and her contemporaries.
I have taken your challenge to heart. The tone ended up being quite different, but please tell me, what do you think of this?

THIS

IS AN
ENCYCLOPEDIA

One gateway to the wide garden
of knowledge, where lies
The deep rock of our past,
in which we must delve
the well of our future,
The clear water we must leave untainted
for those who come after us,
The fertile earth, in which
truth may grow in bright places,
tended by many hands,
And the broad fall of sunshine,
warming our first steps toward knowing
how much we do not know.


Catherine Munro


inspired by This is a printing office,
by Beatrice Warde

I'm so glad you liked it! Share it with others, if you like.  :)
I have added the same formatting to the text on the Beatrice Warde page -- please let me know if it displays all right on your end. (I know Internet Explorer displays it in an ugly sans-serif font instead of that lovely Perpetua; I'm looking for an answer to that.) I'll be happy to implement any changes you might suggest.
I found this example online; using the justified text with dots indicating line breaks might work better for online display (since it has to fit so many different browsers) -- what do you think? — Catherine\talk 17:51, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey, that broadside does a LOT for the Beatrice Warde article (I am seeing it in FireFox 1.5 on Win XP). Neat. ++Lar: t/c 18:06, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
:) glad you like it. Tony, if you don't like what's there, feel free to revert until you've found me a better model for me to work from -- thanks! — Catherine\talk 18:26, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

I am glad that my essay at an essay led to an improvement for Wikipedia; Beatrice and her contemporaries were definitely deserving of coverage! The article is really looking good now.

As for John Taylor, I just set out to write an article for John Taylor of Duran Duran, on my second day here. (I got hooked on Wikipedia because I know a lot about Duran and the article here was pretty skimpy then.) I knew there was a jazz musician, whose discography sometimes got mixed up with Duran's Taylor on various sites, so I looked around the help pages, learned the word "disambiguation", and created a page with two names on it. When some other people added names to the list, it occurred to me to do a thorough search of Wikipedia, and I found many more JTs that I added to the disambiguation page. Many of their articles were substandard, even by 2003 WP standards, so I began doing research improving them. In doing research in various sources, I found even more John Taylors who ought to have articles.

So trying to improve this one little corner of Wikipedia, I have now learned about 17th century poets and the Thames watermen's guild, pseudoscience and the pyramids, bravery under fire, underappreciated musicians, important scholars, many politicians and preachers, The Mormon Church, early baseball history, The Grauniad, pork byproduct, Velocette motorcycles, and murder, not to mention a zillion different things about how Wikipedia works. So, in short, John Taylor has been very good to me!

But please, by all means, add another to the list.....  :) — Catherine\talk 20:47, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Second Industrial Revolution

Whatever you think needs to be done works for me, I defer to your expertise! Mostly I just thought it could've been written a little better, generally cleaned up. · Katefan0(scribble) 16:21, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

  • Looks good to me -- much better job than I could've done! · Katefan0(scribble) 19:40, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

Looks much better. But I am questioning the term, or its importance. I have left a note on the talk page for this article. I would suggest we talk about which historians have used the term "Second Industrial Revolution" because it doesn't seem to have such general currency, and the dates would be different in many places in the world where there was industrialization. --Metzenberg 05:42, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

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Engineers buried in London

Hi, I'm a Friend of West Norwood Cemetery, one of the Magnificent Seven, London, which opened in 1837. I also started out as a civ.eng, and so have a soft spot for them – in more ways than one! You'll see from my profile that we have a lot of engineers buried at WNC, and there may be others that we haven't placed yet. We have biographies for all the ones highlighted, and I plan to sort out at least a stub bio for the remainder over time. As someone who is valiantly ploughing a parallel furrow, do you know if this will be overlapping the work of the ICE's Biographies, Vol II? Ephebi (talk) 10:54, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

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Richard Prosser

Hi Tony,

I noticed you have contributed to the article on Richard Bissell Prosser but that there is no article for his father Richard Prosser... I wish to ask you if you know anything about him, particularly if he was born in Birmingham or elsewhere? I am interested because of his work on producing ceramic buttons.

Thanks,

Joe —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joeprole (talk • contribs) 16:56, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

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cyclopaedias

Of course I remember you! so nice to hear from you again. I don't know much about Rees's but am interested by it; it looks like there is a great deal of detail there already! It's such an interesting history. At any rate, it's lovely to see you editing again -- welcome back :) best, phoebe / (talk to me) 02:35, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Sorry

I just assumed it was up for review as it was tagged, so moved it to AfC. It's no longer there anyway. I assume you're not finished with the newly created version? OohBunnies! Leave a message 15:08, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

The article on William Blair currently could do with a little manual of style move to remove the comma from the title and it could do with an intro. I could give it a quick clean up if you're not currently in the process of editing it? :) OohBunnies! Leave a message 15:15, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
I gave it a quick copyedit and a few tweaks. You might want to check it over to make sure I haven't accidentally made any typos or something. Also, if the Henry Meyer who did his portrait was Henry Hoppner Meyer, you could wikilink to that. :) OohBunnies! Leave a message 15:57, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
In response to your question about writing an article on W. Symonds, my advice would be: don't. It's not really within policy to have an article about someone when we're not even sure who they were! Everything needs to be sourced, and finding only one source that only notes he existed, and he contributed to something...it's not nearly enough. I know it would be lovely to have a list of all the contributors to the Cyclopaedia with nice blue links, but sometimes these things just aren't possible. Instead of a red link, I would suggest unlinking his name. Because there's really no way an article could be created about a person we have so little information about. I'm sorry! OohBunnies! Leave a message 18:33, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Yep, that sounds like a good alternative! OohBunnies! Leave a message 18:45, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

John Clennell

I was copy editing the page and noticed that, whilst you have included a reference for the article, you haven't linked it to anything in the main text. As the only person thusfar who has edited the page to any great degree, I was wondering if you could let me know which parts of the article are sourced from said reference so that they can be cited correctly. --Skamecrazy123 (talk) 13:37, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Good point. I'll do it now - well in half an hour or so! Apwoolrich (talk) 13:47, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

I have also been through and copy edited said article. I don't believe any of the changes I made detract from what was originally being said, but drop me a line if you have any queries about it. --Skamecrazy123 (talk) 13:52, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
No problem on edits. Its good to know people look at my stuff. I've done inline citations. If you click Rees's Cyclopaedia, then look at the contributors you will see my source for the list of contributors. Since can't cite WP pages as references, there is no point in doing so. Apwoolrich (talk) 14:18, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Indeed, but you have a couple of good references there so I can't really see there being any sort of problem. Incidentally, I changed the notes section to references, as that is what that section is generally named. Keep up the good work :) --Skamecrazy123 (talk) 14:57, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for your kind remarks about my work. I've responded on that discussion page. Most of the fact-finding was done in the 1980's and 90s, with the view of writing an academic paper about it. I've abandoned that route following my discovery that the journal I used to write for, History of Technology, now retails at well over £100 per volume in a minute print run - and most of the Cyclopaedia contributors have pages on WP. Plus the fact that in the last couple of years the Cyclopaedia has been digitised and OCRd. By placing my material on WP there is more likely to get an input from other scholars both now and in the future than would ever come from a print publication. Kind regards Apwoolrich (talk) 07:29, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Thankyou for your contributions

Thankyou for your contributions. One set of categories that it is easy to put on most articles is birth and death dates (well, at least if you have such dates). Keep up the good work.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:45, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

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Farey

Thank you! I'm keeping an eye out for it, but it hasn't come through yet. :) When it does, I'll put together a template for that article talk page which I'll also put in a user subpage for you, just to verify that your identity is confirmed. That should eliminate any future issues with copyright. If you plan to use extensively content you've written, I think it's probably a good idea to put a note with a link to the OTRS template on the talk page. It won't stop bots, but it may keep others from raising concerns later and material potentially being deleted by somebody who doesn't look closely enough.

If perchance another agent gets it first, no harm - I'll just keep looking and step in to explain, if necessary, what's going on.

Thanks again for your willingness to help out with this. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:04, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

There, then. That's done. Thank you very much. :) I've created the promised notice for you at User:Apwoolrich/Verification. If you ever want to use your own words extensively, i'd really recommend either substituting on the talk page (as I have done at Talk:Joseph_Farey) or leaving a note with a link. People can stumble upon this stuff much, much later and the default approach is to remove if they can't prove you are who you say you are. No reason to risk that. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:13, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thanks for your many edits over the years Tony. Your work is impeccable. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 18:54, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Just for context... did you know you recently passed 1,000 edits in the mainspace? Pretty cool, eh? :) Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 18:55, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Encyclopædia Edinensis

Perhaps you can help. It was published in six volumes all right, but that was a dozen years after it was announced in 1815. It is obvious that there was a part-published version first. I haven't been able to turn up a clear reference to when that started, though.

Of the contributors, not so many seem obviously notable. I have a draft for William Galbraith (mathematician), which doesn't need much work now. Apart from that I don't hold out much hope. But you might have something more. Charles Matthews (talk) 12:41, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

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Hi! I trust you didn't do all the work of finding the 15-column entries yourself (I saw "Willism" misscanned)?! If another source did some or all of the work that would be very helpful for knowing at AFD. Also, I recommend we add to the inclusion criterion the idea of "articles mentioned in at least one secondary RS". (Later on the 15-column minimum might be removed and the nonsecondary articles delisted; or maybe not.) JJB 23:58, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for your work

Your having responded to my talk-page post on Rees's Cyclopædia led me to see that you were the one who did so much of the incredible work on that overlooked reference work. I wanted to convey my sincerest thanks, as that article and all the wikilinks and external links in it has served as a springboard for improving other articles, especially ones on traditional, old, or "obsolete" technologies, such as optical telegraphy, Hawkin's polygraph writing machine, wagons, and cider mills, as well as ideas for a number not yet made. It's quite a treasure trove of information on technology as it existed towards the end of the first Industrial Revolution. I'm presently working on cleaning up and uploading quite a number of images from the plates to illustrate the relevant pages of those topics. Again, thank you for all your work in bringing this great work to light! Morgan Riley (talk) 23:07, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Joseph Booth and textiles

Maybe one for you. I have just created Joseph Booth (actor), which concentrates on the "polygraphic art" (which is still being researched, see the link on the talk page to a 2010 MPhil). I have just run across a Rees's C. reference to Booth ([2]). That's in the "Woollen Manufacture" article by Hebert, and I see that this contributor is not yet identified.

I'd concur with the thread above: it's a great thing to have this material about the Cyclopædia here. Charles Matthews (talk) 05:51, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Could be Luke Hebert, I suppose, if the dates permit. Since The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopaedia is one of your article starts, you might have ruled him out. Charles Matthews (talk) 06:15, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Philip Taylor (civil engineer)

Another possible for you. The brother John Taylor (civil engineer) is a Rees contributor. The Philip Taylor article is based on the DNB, but the time in the UK is much foreshortened. I can see the reason, which is that it was written for the DNB by Alger, who was an expert on matters French instead.

There is fairly clearly a period 1812 to 1826 (when the British Iron Company went through a rocky patch) where the Taylor brothers were doing innovative things in chemistry. The interest in steam spilled over into steam engine design. I hope to improve the article with the aid of a couple of books, but it is apparently complicated with several enterprises involved. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:15, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Factory visits

I'm nearly finished (I hope!) with upgrading Charles Babbage, to reflect his whole range of interests. See the talk page there for my motivation to spend time on just one long article. One thing that came up was his factory visits. I redirected to factory tour, a feeble article. But I thought it might be revealing to trace the early history of visits to factories in the 19th century, at least. Charles Matthews (talk) 15:40, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

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Alexander Jamieson

I wondered if you had come across him. A volume of his Dictionary of Mechanical Arts is on Google Books.[3] From the introduction in it, he is the same person as the schoolmaster and LL. D. at Wyke House, which is where he comes up for me. The Thoemmes Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Philosophers has an article about Alexander Jamieson LL.D. fl. 1818, saying "nothing is known about the life" of Jamieson, the author of A Grammar of Logic and Intellectual Philosophy ([4] is an American edition). There is also an amateur astronomer of the same name; and a few ODNB hits. It is tempting to assume this is all one person.

That the Thoemmes Dictionary person is the schoolmaster and writer of the Dictionary of Mechanical Arts is fairly clear from this title page of the Universal Science Or the Cabinet of Nature and Art (1821). Charles Matthews (talk) 10:53, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Progress: the author of the Geography and Elementary Astronomy is the author of the Celestial Atlas,[5], Alexander Jamieson A.M., so really must be one person. I'll draft something, because there is quite enough on him as rhetorician to make for notability. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:06, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

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Old Jewry Meeting-house

Of possible interest to you. An image of the original place would of course be nice. Charles Matthews (talk) 21:10, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Henry Langdon Childe

I wondered whether this was really up your street, but when the Adelaide Gallery turned up I thought it probably was. I believe there is quite a lot of disinformation around, and I don't think the old DNB is trustworthy in this case. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:24, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

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BNA & Blake Museum

Hi, Thanks for your message. The Times was just an example & I will investigate through Somerset libraries, but I'm sure other papers would be useful. I started the Blake Museum article (back in 2007) as there wasn't one, but when I went to visit & took the photo it was closed so I've never been inside, but still hope to visit one day. I'm sure it could still be improved if you fancied collaborating on it (obviously taking into account any COI).— Rod talk 06:49, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

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Industrial Revolution

Just in case you missed it, you might want to look at a chunk of text that has been added three times (and removed twice) to the Industrial Revolution article. It is presently in the Causes section, and begins "From about 1100, the population of Europe rose, which is because there was recovery from the disorder in the early medieval times..." and runs to the end of the section.

It looks to me suspiciously like a school paper, stuffed, without a lot of thought, into the article. It could, I suppose, be salvaged, but this is really not my field. I thought perhaps you might see fit to clean it up, or just delete it again?

TIA, Mwanner 21:12, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Hello

Thanks for the welcome and the note. I'd very much like to see the searchable full text of the early editions of the Britannica online, ideally with the illustrations. I just don't know that I'll be doing it manually anytime soon ... ! I suppose I'm hoping for someone to tweak optical character recognition to better handle specific typefaces, alphabets, etc. used in these old volumes and re-scan them to a far higher degree of accuracy. I wonder what Google is doing with their new project, they have the money and talent for this, and if they will do the EB? flux.books 14:15, 20 October 2005 (UTC)


Thanks

Hi Tony: Thanks for the vote of confidence. I think I would be better at copyediting than what the Wikisource project is doing, namely becuase, I don't have a scanner and I also don't have a copy of EB11 at home. I do have access to the handy edition at work. The type is small but manageable to read. I would be happy to help in other ways (see copyediting above). Let me know how you want to procede. Best regards, FeanorStar7 18:17, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

1911 EB

I'd love to help with the 1911EB project. I've moved hundreds (it seems!) from the online OCR version to Wikipedia. However, I don't have a copy of the original. I could fix some obvious things, but I'd not be able to make it final without a copy or facsimile, because, as you saw with the "Viel-Castel" thing, some stuff is so tricky to identify. But yes, I love doing this kind of editing. --DanielCD 20:37, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Chambers

Hi there ... working on Ephraim Chambers has been on my list for a while, so I'm glad I was able to improve it. I wrote a paper about the Cyclopaedia a while ago and was surprised to find how little literature there is out there on either the Cyclopaedia or Chambers -- very little is known about him and not that many people have even heard of him. I'll check the British Biographical Index though, thanks. Fixing up the Cyclopaedia article is my next task... Brassratgirl 04:34, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Hello

Category:Wikipedians born in the 1930s is up for deletion. I believe on the "by age" metawiki it says you are from the 1930s so I thought I'd mention this to you to get a sense of what, if anything, your view on it would be.--T. Anthony 06:33, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikisource

Tony, thanks for the invite to join your efforts on Wikisource. I've just created an account there (as you already know ;-) ), but I wouldn't rely on too much activity from me. My editing lately has been pretty much restricted to maintenance work here, and I'm afraid that I've let Wikipolitics suck me in, which is pretty depressing. I'll try and rekindle some enthusiasm to make some positive contributions soon.

I have two tasks sitting in the back of my mind, that you might have the answer to, or can point me in the right direction. One is to track down the birthplace of Charles Babbage (although even his biographers seem uncertain, from the comments I've seen so far). The second (and perhaps something which has a more definite answer) is to find out what is the difference between a tilt hammer and a trip hammer. I did some hunting a while back, and there does seem to be a difference because some foundries are documented as having both, but I couldn't discern a clear definition. In my mind, it started to seem that a trip hammer was in constant operation, whereas a tilt hammer was 'on demand'. Any interest?

Finally, an apology. You left a message on my talk page some time ago regarding looking at the Industrial Revolution article after some changes that you made, and I failed to respond. I treat the internet in quite a different way than I treat interactions in real life, so I'm sure I come over as quite rude on occasion. Hope you didn't take offence. Cheers, Noisy | Talk 14:39, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

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Trip Hammers

Just wandering around, I saw this: [6]... would you consider that text for Hammer mill, perhaps sourced? That article really needs something! (I found out how barren it was when working on Redridge Steel Dam which fed a stamp mill... another name for a hammermill, I think but the hammers are used for ore extraction rather than metal forming.) ++Lar: t/c 15:17, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Essay & Beatrice Warde

Thank you for the kind words about the essay on my userpage; it's gratifying to know that others like what I wrote. I was unaware of the Printing Office text -- thank you so much for pointing it out to me! — Catherine\talk 22:41, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the lovely article on Beatrice and her contemporaries.
I have taken your challenge to heart. The tone ended up being quite different, but please tell me, what do you think of this?

THIS

IS AN
ENCYCLOPEDIA

One gateway to the wide garden
of knowledge, where lies
The deep rock of our past,
in which we must delve
the well of our future,
The clear water we must leave untainted
for those who come after us,
The fertile earth, in which
truth may grow in bright places,
tended by many hands,
And the broad fall of sunshine,
warming our first steps toward knowing
how much we do not know.


Catherine Munro


inspired by This is a printing office,
by Beatrice Warde

I'm so glad you liked it! Share it with others, if you like.  :)
I have added the same formatting to the text on the Beatrice Warde page -- please let me know if it displays all right on your end. (I know Internet Explorer displays it in an ugly sans-serif font instead of that lovely Perpetua; I'm looking for an answer to that.) I'll be happy to implement any changes you might suggest.
I found this example online; using the justified text with dots indicating line breaks might work better for online display (since it has to fit so many different browsers) -- what do you think? — Catherine\talk 17:51, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey, that broadside does a LOT for the Beatrice Warde article (I am seeing it in FireFox 1.5 on Win XP). Neat. ++Lar: t/c 18:06, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
:) glad you like it. Tony, if you don't like what's there, feel free to revert until you've found me a better model for me to work from -- thanks! — Catherine\talk 18:26, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

I am glad that my essay at an essay led to an improvement for Wikipedia; Beatrice and her contemporaries were definitely deserving of coverage! The article is really looking good now.

As for John Taylor, I just set out to write an article for John Taylor of Duran Duran, on my second day here. (I got hooked on Wikipedia because I know a lot about Duran and the article here was pretty skimpy then.) I knew there was a jazz musician, whose discography sometimes got mixed up with Duran's Taylor on various sites, so I looked around the help pages, learned the word "disambiguation", and created a page with two names on it. When some other people added names to the list, it occurred to me to do a thorough search of Wikipedia, and I found many more JTs that I added to the disambiguation page. Many of their articles were substandard, even by 2003 WP standards, so I began doing research improving them. In doing research in various sources, I found even more John Taylors who ought to have articles.

So trying to improve this one little corner of Wikipedia, I have now learned about 17th century poets and the Thames watermen's guild, pseudoscience and the pyramids, bravery under fire, underappreciated musicians, important scholars, many politicians and preachers, The Mormon Church, early baseball history, The Grauniad, pork byproduct, Velocette motorcycles, and murder, not to mention a zillion different things about how Wikipedia works. So, in short, John Taylor has been very good to me!

But please, by all means, add another to the list.....  :) — Catherine\talk 20:47, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Second Industrial Revolution

Whatever you think needs to be done works for me, I defer to your expertise! Mostly I just thought it could've been written a little better, generally cleaned up. · Katefan0(scribble) 16:21, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

  • Looks good to me -- much better job than I could've done! · Katefan0(scribble) 19:40, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

Looks much better. But I am questioning the term, or its importance. I have left a note on the talk page for this article. I would suggest we talk about which historians have used the term "Second Industrial Revolution" because it doesn't seem to have such general currency, and the dates would be different in many places in the world where there was industrialization. --Metzenberg 05:42, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

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A tag has been placed on History of Technology (magazine), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

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Engineers buried in London

Hi, I'm a Friend of West Norwood Cemetery, one of the Magnificent Seven, London, which opened in 1837. I also started out as a civ.eng, and so have a soft spot for them – in more ways than one! You'll see from my profile that we have a lot of engineers buried at WNC, and there may be others that we haven't placed yet. We have biographies for all the ones highlighted, and I plan to sort out at least a stub bio for the remainder over time. As someone who is valiantly ploughing a parallel furrow, do you know if this will be overlapping the work of the ICE's Biographies, Vol II? Ephebi (talk) 10:54, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

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Richard Prosser

Hi Tony,

I noticed you have contributed to the article on Richard Bissell Prosser but that there is no article for his father Richard Prosser... I wish to ask you if you know anything about him, particularly if he was born in Birmingham or elsewhere? I am interested because of his work on producing ceramic buttons.

Thanks,

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Of course I remember you! so nice to hear from you again. I don't know much about Rees's but am interested by it; it looks like there is a great deal of detail there already! It's such an interesting history. At any rate, it's lovely to see you editing again -- welcome back :) best, phoebe / (talk to me) 02:35, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

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I just assumed it was up for review as it was tagged, so moved it to AfC. It's no longer there anyway. I assume you're not finished with the newly created version? OohBunnies! Leave a message 15:08, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

The article on William Blair currently could do with a little manual of style move to remove the comma from the title and it could do with an intro. I could give it a quick clean up if you're not currently in the process of editing it? :) OohBunnies! Leave a message 15:15, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
I gave it a quick copyedit and a few tweaks. You might want to check it over to make sure I haven't accidentally made any typos or something. Also, if the Henry Meyer who did his portrait was Henry Hoppner Meyer, you could wikilink to that. :) OohBunnies! Leave a message 15:57, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
In response to your question about writing an article on W. Symonds, my advice would be: don't. It's not really within policy to have an article about someone when we're not even sure who they were! Everything needs to be sourced, and finding only one source that only notes he existed, and he contributed to something...it's not nearly enough. I know it would be lovely to have a list of all the contributors to the Cyclopaedia with nice blue links, but sometimes these things just aren't possible. Instead of a red link, I would suggest unlinking his name. Because there's really no way an article could be created about a person we have so little information about. I'm sorry! OohBunnies! Leave a message 18:33, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Yep, that sounds like a good alternative! OohBunnies! Leave a message 18:45, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

John Clennell

I was copy editing the page and noticed that, whilst you have included a reference for the article, you haven't linked it to anything in the main text. As the only person thusfar who has edited the page to any great degree, I was wondering if you could let me know which parts of the article are sourced from said reference so that they can be cited correctly. --Skamecrazy123 (talk) 13:37, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Good point. I'll do it now - well in half an hour or so! Apwoolrich (talk) 13:47, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

I have also been through and copy edited said article. I don't believe any of the changes I made detract from what was originally being said, but drop me a line if you have any queries about it. --Skamecrazy123 (talk) 13:52, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
No problem on edits. Its good to know people look at my stuff. I've done inline citations. If you click Rees's Cyclopaedia, then look at the contributors you will see my source for the list of contributors. Since can't cite WP pages as references, there is no point in doing so. Apwoolrich (talk) 14:18, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Indeed, but you have a couple of good references there so I can't really see there being any sort of problem. Incidentally, I changed the notes section to references, as that is what that section is generally named. Keep up the good work :) --Skamecrazy123 (talk) 14:57, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for your kind remarks about my work. I've responded on that discussion page. Most of the fact-finding was done in the 1980's and 90s, with the view of writing an academic paper about it. I've abandoned that route following my discovery that the journal I used to write for, History of Technology, now retails at well over £100 per volume in a minute print run - and most of the Cyclopaedia contributors have pages on WP. Plus the fact that in the last couple of years the Cyclopaedia has been digitised and OCRd. By placing my material on WP there is more likely to get an input from other scholars both now and in the future than would ever come from a print publication. Kind regards Apwoolrich (talk) 07:29, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you! I'm keeping an eye out for it, but it hasn't come through yet. :) When it does, I'll put together a template for that article talk page which I'll also put in a user subpage for you, just to verify that your identity is confirmed. That should eliminate any future issues with copyright. If you plan to use extensively content you've written, I think it's probably a good idea to put a note with a link to the OTRS template on the talk page. It won't stop bots, but it may keep others from raising concerns later and material potentially being deleted by somebody who doesn't look closely enough.

If perchance another agent gets it first, no harm - I'll just keep looking and step in to explain, if necessary, what's going on.

Thanks again for your willingness to help out with this. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:04, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

There, then. That's done. Thank you very much. :) I've created the promised notice for you at User:Apwoolrich/Verification. If you ever want to use your own words extensively, i'd really recommend either substituting on the talk page (as I have done at Talk:Joseph_Farey) or leaving a note with a link. People can stumble upon this stuff much, much later and the default approach is to remove if they can't prove you are who you say you are. No reason to risk that. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:13, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

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Encyclopædia Edinensis

Perhaps you can help. It was published in six volumes all right, but that was a dozen years after it was announced in 1815. It is obvious that there was a part-published version first. I haven't been able to turn up a clear reference to when that started, though.

Of the contributors, not so many seem obviously notable. I have a draft for William Galbraith (mathematician), which doesn't need much work now. Apart from that I don't hold out much hope. But you might have something more. Charles Matthews (talk) 12:41, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

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Your having responded to my talk-page post on Rees's Cyclopædia led me to see that you were the one who did so much of the incredible work on that overlooked reference work. I wanted to convey my sincerest thanks, as that article and all the wikilinks and external links in it has served as a springboard for improving other articles, especially ones on traditional, old, or "obsolete" technologies, such as optical telegraphy, Hawkin's polygraph writing machine, wagons, and cider mills, as well as ideas for a number not yet made. It's quite a treasure trove of information on technology as it existed towards the end of the first Industrial Revolution. I'm presently working on cleaning up and uploading quite a number of images from the plates to illustrate the relevant pages of those topics. Again, thank you for all your work in bringing this great work to light! Morgan Riley (talk) 23:07, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Joseph Booth and textiles

Maybe one for you. I have just created Joseph Booth (actor), which concentrates on the "polygraphic art" (which is still being researched, see the link on the talk page to a 2010 MPhil). I have just run across a Rees's C. reference to Booth ([7]). That's in the "Woollen Manufacture" article by Hebert, and I see that this contributor is not yet identified.

I'd concur with the thread above: it's a great thing to have this material about the Cyclopædia here. Charles Matthews (talk) 05:51, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Could be Luke Hebert, I suppose, if the dates permit. Since The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopaedia is one of your article starts, you might have ruled him out. Charles Matthews (talk) 06:15, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Philip Taylor (civil engineer)

Another possible for you. The brother John Taylor (civil engineer) is a Rees contributor. The Philip Taylor article is based on the DNB, but the time in the UK is much foreshortened. I can see the reason, which is that it was written for the DNB by Alger, who was an expert on matters French instead.

There is fairly clearly a period 1812 to 1826 (when the British Iron Company went through a rocky patch) where the Taylor brothers were doing innovative things in chemistry. The interest in steam spilled over into steam engine design. I hope to improve the article with the aid of a couple of books, but it is apparently complicated with several enterprises involved. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:15, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Factory visits

I'm nearly finished (I hope!) with upgrading Charles Babbage, to reflect his whole range of interests. See the talk page there for my motivation to spend time on just one long article. One thing that came up was his factory visits. I redirected to factory tour, a feeble article. But I thought it might be revealing to trace the early history of visits to factories in the 19th century, at least. Charles Matthews (talk) 15:40, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

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Alexander Jamieson

I wondered if you had come across him. A volume of his Dictionary of Mechanical Arts is on Google Books.[8] From the introduction in it, he is the same person as the schoolmaster and LL. D. at Wyke House, which is where he comes up for me. The Thoemmes Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Philosophers has an article about Alexander Jamieson LL.D. fl. 1818, saying "nothing is known about the life" of Jamieson, the author of A Grammar of Logic and Intellectual Philosophy ([9] is an American edition). There is also an amateur astronomer of the same name; and a few ODNB hits. It is tempting to assume this is all one person.

That the Thoemmes Dictionary person is the schoolmaster and writer of the Dictionary of Mechanical Arts is fairly clear from this title page of the Universal Science Or the Cabinet of Nature and Art (1821). Charles Matthews (talk) 10:53, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Progress: the author of the Geography and Elementary Astronomy is the author of the Celestial Atlas,[10], Alexander Jamieson A.M., so really must be one person. I'll draft something, because there is quite enough on him as rhetorician to make for notability. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:06, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

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BNA & Blake Museum

Hi, Thanks for your message. The Times was just an example & I will investigate through Somerset libraries, but I'm sure other papers would be useful. I started the Blake Museum article (back in 2007) as there wasn't one, but when I went to visit & took the photo it was closed so I've never been inside, but still hope to visit one day. I'm sure it could still be improved if you fancied collaborating on it (obviously taking into account any COI).— Rod talk 06:49, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

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