Comments by "scrim" (@-scrim) on "CBS Mornings"
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@African.Prince Okay, I'll do my research.
--- I don't know what you mean by "traffic control device".
--- The invention of the gas mask predates Morgan's breathing device by several decades. Early versions were constructed by the Scottish chemist John Stenhouse in 1854 and the physicist John Tyndall in the 1870s, among many other inventors prior to World War I.
--- Francis Robbins Upton first patented a fire alarm that used electricity in 1890. Upton was a close associate of the famous inventor Thomas Edison. In Europe (Birmingham, England to be exact), an electric “heat detector” was also patented around this time — in 1902.
--- Ice cream scooper... are you serious?
--- The first known traffic signal appeared in London in 1868 near the Houses of Parliament. Designed by JP Knight, it featured two semaphore arms and two gas lamps. The earliest electric traffic lights include Lester Wire's two-color version set up in Salt Lake City circa 1912, James Hoge's system (US patent #1,251,666) installed in Cleveland by the American Traffic Signal Company in 1914, and William Potts' 4-way red-yellow-green lights introduced in Detroit beginning in 1920. New York City traffic towers began flashing three-color signals also in 1920.
Garrett Morgan's cross-shaped, crank-operated semaphore was not among the first half-hundred patented traffic signals, nor was it "automatic" as is sometimes claimed, nor did it play any part in the evolution of the modern traffic light. For details see Inventing History: Garrett Morgan and the Traffic Signal.
--- In 1872, Erica Feldman used the first ironing device to style her hair.
She used heated iron rods and was inspired by a curling iron (heated rod with metallic teeth), invented at the same time by Parisian man Marcel Grateau.
--- John Logie Baird was a Scottish engineer, innovator, one of the inventors of the mechanical television, demonstrating the first working television system on 26 January 1926, and inventor of both the first publicly demonstrated colour television system, and the first purely electronic colour television picture tube.
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@autumnpoobear I'm not particularly concerned with King Tut, to be honest. But half of European men share his DNA, do you think he was Levant Neolithic, Anatolia Neolithic... or black (LMAO)?
> "Don’t be mad you have no culture."
> that moment when your culture is literally the foundation of roughly the entirety of the first world and thus it goes under peoples noses and they think you have no culture.
White culture is Michelangelo.
White culture is the moon landing.
White culture is Homer, Shakespeare, Byron, and Hemingway.
White culture is the automobile.
White culture is the lightbulb.
White culture is antibiotics and pasteurization.
White culture is Mozart and Chopin.
The side which ushered modern science, medicine, mass transport, eradicated famine and plagues, and brought about global development on a scale never seen before.
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