On this day in History.............post coin photo's from....................1920.......1886......19
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May 4
1920 Miller Time
Harry Miller was issued a U.S. patent for a race car design that introduced many features later incorporated into race cars in the following decades. Among Miller's countless patented breakthroughs were aluminum pistons and engine blocks, off-beat carburetors, inter-cooled super-chargers, and practical front-wheel drive. Born to German immigrants in Menomonie, Wisconsin, in 1876, Harry Miller shunned his father's encouragement to become a painter and chose instead a career in engineering. He dropped out of high school at the age of fifteen to work in a local machine shop. A gifted tinkerer, Miller invented for the joy of it. He built what is said to have been the first motorcycle ever made in the United States by hooking up a one-cylinder engine to his bicycle. In the mid-1890s, Miller built the country's first outboard motor, a four-cylinder engine that he clamped to his rowboat. Miller never sought a patent for either invention. Miller left Wisconsin in 1897 for Los Angeles, where he opened a machine shop. In 1905, he built his first car. His major breakthrough came in 1916, when he designed a race car for famed racer Barney Oldfield. His product, the Golden Submarine, was the fastest race car of its time. The Submarine made Oldfield the dominant force in the unregulated match races of the period. Having gained great recognition with the Golden Submarine, Miller directed his energy toward creating better race cars. He was the first man to concentrate exclusively on building race cars for sale. By the late 1920s, Miller was designing and building precision-tuned race cars and selling them for the exorbitant price of $15,000. Miller's ultimate achievement was the Miller 91, which he built for the 1926 Indy 500. The Miller 91 produced a minimum of 230 hp at 7,000 rpm, and it could be boosted to 300 hp at 8,500 rpm. At 3.3 hp per cubic inch, Miller's car compares remarkably with today's super-charged Indy cars, which produce 4.5 hp per cubic inch. Take into account that Miller's materials were limited--gaskets and lubricants were primitive, aluminum and chrom-moly steel rare, welding unreliable, and fuel capable of only meager compression ratios--and you see just what kind of genius Harry Miller was. With the benefits of modern technology, Miller's original 1926 racing engine would eventually produce over three times its original horsepower. His design remained competitive for nearly five decades. In 1992, one of Miller's 1500 cc race cars was purchased by the Smithsonian Institution, which displays the car alongside the last century's greatest engineering miracles.
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1886 The First Practical Phonograph---------For Lucy!
Chinchester Bell, cousin of Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Sumner Tainter patented the first practical phonograph on May 4, 1886. The machine, called the "graphophone," was designed for "recording and reproducing speech and other sounds." The two men also worked with Alexander Graham Bell to invent a process for reproducing sound from phonograph records and "transmitting and recording sounds by radiant energy." Thomas Alva Edison had patented an earlier design of the phonograph in 1878.
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1932 The Tax Man Tackles Capone
After a long reign atop Chicago's seething Underworld, the law finally nabbed Al Capone in the fall of 1931. Following a high-wattage trial, the notorious mob kingpin was sentenced to an eleven-year jail term and forced to pay $80,000 in fines. But, while Capone was an alleged killer, as well as the force behind gambling rings and bootlegging networks, his trip to prison wasn't tied to any of these eminently punishable enterprises. Rather, Capone had been tripped up for repeatedly failing to pay his taxes. Capone's fiscal offences, which had been unearthed by the band of Treasury agents now enshrined in pop-culture history as the "Untouchables," landed him first in an Atlanta prison; two years into his term, Capone was shuttled to the recently opened Bay Area prison, Alcatraz. However, Capone never served out his sentence: suffering from an advanced bout of syphilis, he was set free in 1939 favor of an extended stay in a Baltimore hospital.
May 4
1920 Miller Time
Harry Miller was issued a U.S. patent for a race car design that introduced many features later incorporated into race cars in the following decades. Among Miller's countless patented breakthroughs were aluminum pistons and engine blocks, off-beat carburetors, inter-cooled super-chargers, and practical front-wheel drive. Born to German immigrants in Menomonie, Wisconsin, in 1876, Harry Miller shunned his father's encouragement to become a painter and chose instead a career in engineering. He dropped out of high school at the age of fifteen to work in a local machine shop. A gifted tinkerer, Miller invented for the joy of it. He built what is said to have been the first motorcycle ever made in the United States by hooking up a one-cylinder engine to his bicycle. In the mid-1890s, Miller built the country's first outboard motor, a four-cylinder engine that he clamped to his rowboat. Miller never sought a patent for either invention. Miller left Wisconsin in 1897 for Los Angeles, where he opened a machine shop. In 1905, he built his first car. His major breakthrough came in 1916, when he designed a race car for famed racer Barney Oldfield. His product, the Golden Submarine, was the fastest race car of its time. The Submarine made Oldfield the dominant force in the unregulated match races of the period. Having gained great recognition with the Golden Submarine, Miller directed his energy toward creating better race cars. He was the first man to concentrate exclusively on building race cars for sale. By the late 1920s, Miller was designing and building precision-tuned race cars and selling them for the exorbitant price of $15,000. Miller's ultimate achievement was the Miller 91, which he built for the 1926 Indy 500. The Miller 91 produced a minimum of 230 hp at 7,000 rpm, and it could be boosted to 300 hp at 8,500 rpm. At 3.3 hp per cubic inch, Miller's car compares remarkably with today's super-charged Indy cars, which produce 4.5 hp per cubic inch. Take into account that Miller's materials were limited--gaskets and lubricants were primitive, aluminum and chrom-moly steel rare, welding unreliable, and fuel capable of only meager compression ratios--and you see just what kind of genius Harry Miller was. With the benefits of modern technology, Miller's original 1926 racing engine would eventually produce over three times its original horsepower. His design remained competitive for nearly five decades. In 1992, one of Miller's 1500 cc race cars was purchased by the Smithsonian Institution, which displays the car alongside the last century's greatest engineering miracles.
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1886 The First Practical Phonograph---------For Lucy!
Chinchester Bell, cousin of Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Sumner Tainter patented the first practical phonograph on May 4, 1886. The machine, called the "graphophone," was designed for "recording and reproducing speech and other sounds." The two men also worked with Alexander Graham Bell to invent a process for reproducing sound from phonograph records and "transmitting and recording sounds by radiant energy." Thomas Alva Edison had patented an earlier design of the phonograph in 1878.
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1932 The Tax Man Tackles Capone
After a long reign atop Chicago's seething Underworld, the law finally nabbed Al Capone in the fall of 1931. Following a high-wattage trial, the notorious mob kingpin was sentenced to an eleven-year jail term and forced to pay $80,000 in fines. But, while Capone was an alleged killer, as well as the force behind gambling rings and bootlegging networks, his trip to prison wasn't tied to any of these eminently punishable enterprises. Rather, Capone had been tripped up for repeatedly failing to pay his taxes. Capone's fiscal offences, which had been unearthed by the band of Treasury agents now enshrined in pop-culture history as the "Untouchables," landed him first in an Atlanta prison; two years into his term, Capone was shuttled to the recently opened Bay Area prison, Alcatraz. However, Capone never served out his sentence: suffering from an advanced bout of syphilis, he was set free in 1939 favor of an extended stay in a Baltimore hospital.
Pennies make dollars, and dollars make slabs!
....inflation must be kicking in again this dollar says spend by Dec. 31 2004!
Erik
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as usual you are a good guy and a sport!
sincerely michael
Rainbow Stars
Pennies make dollars, and dollars make slabs!
....inflation must be kicking in again this dollar says spend by Dec. 31 2004!
Erik