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[oldtimer]

Looking at today's version of the GOOGLE logo in its engineering format reminded me of the drawings,cartoons etc of the above artist and how he has become a byword for wacky inventions of all sorts.
I wonder if any of those older chaps,like myself,recall similar drawings in Punch by a chap called Emmett which gave us much pleasure and amusement at his ingenuity or,perhaps,"engineuity"since most were based on things mechanical or steam driven or an amalgam of all types.
However,despite his being much appreciated,his name has not replaced that of Heath Robinson in the context of things weird and wonderful.

[Penman]

Hi
I wonder if it is perhaps because many of Rowland Emmett's "contraptions" were actually built and worked, whereas Heath Robinson's seem to be simply "flights of fancy".


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Roland_Emett

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Heath_Robinson
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[peter scott]

Hi John,

Heath Robinson's drawings are wonderful but Rowland Emett took things one stage further in as much as he created working models of his drawings too.

I remember back in the 50s my father used to take me to the Highland Agricultural Show and each year there used to be a working Emett model there.

I found one such model pictured on the web:



See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvOiNZqope8

You might also like the Blue Ball Machine. Be sure to listen to the music too. (The Breakfast Machine) http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/

It may take time to start up.

Also see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSKyHmjyrkA&feature=email

Peter
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[Peter_L]

Google Canada has Thomas Edison's 164th birthday celebrated with graphics.

Yesterday it was Jules Verne.

[oldtimer]

I wasn't aware of the fact that Emmett's designs became reality as you both mention.
Peter,you have done it again! No matter how obscure an item I raise you invariably produce chapter and verse on that subject within an amazingly short space of time.Simply mindblowing!
My Holy Grail will be a search for something that falls outside these parameters if such a thing exists but,as we Scots say "ah hay ma doots"

John

[Jim.Walker]

[oldtimer]

Hello Jim
You are spot on regarding my age and so I was around for the models but was having something of a moratorium on such matters about that time and was actively engaged in another area of research,namely girls,since I had just completed five years at boarding school and felt Ihad alot of catchin g up to do!
John