#Franklin Electric

[apieinvestavimapaprastai]

Franklin Electric Co. Inc.

Kompanija Franklin Electric Co., Inc. įkurta 1944 metais. Pavadinime panaudotas JAV elektros inžinerijos pionieriaus Benjamin Franklin garbei #franklinwlectric #investment #dividends #investavimas #dividendinekompanija #pinigai #money

Kompanija Franklin Electric Co., Inc. įkurta 1944 metais. Pavadinimas sugalvotas JAV elektros inžinerijos pionieriaus Benjamin Franklin garbei. Kompanija žymi tuo, kad pirmoji pagamino panardinamąjį variklį vandens sistemoms ir pirmąjį panardinamąjį siurblį degalų tiekimo sistemai. (more…) “”

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Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky by Benjamin West

[worldhistoryfacts]

The most famous early experiment with electricity was Ben Franklin’s kite. In 1752, he flew a kite with a metal key attached to his kite string in a thunderstorm. The key collected static electricity from the storm (it was not hit by lightning, as is commonly believed; that would have killed Franklin).

Sixty years later, Benjamin West depicted the moment as a moment of almost divine inspiration:

Though Franklin gets all the credit for this idea, a number of intrepid scientists were doing similar things around the same time — including Georg Wilhelm Richmann, who, the following year, was killed when lightning struck an apparatus he had set up.

{Buy me a coffee} {WHF} {Medium} {Looking Through the Past}

Many more experiments with electricity, from the silly to the sublime:

[thedowntown500]

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benjamin franklin and gilgamesh … we need to talk about that

[that90ssmshow]

choosing to believe this means all Spidey Super Stories / Electric Company shows are canonical to 616

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: at the convergence of global #wind day, fly a #kite day, and #electricity day, you get this, AdeptApril's #ANSIart tribute to #BenFranklin.

[denimbex1986]

'Organisers of a legendary fundraiser for striking miners are returning to the same venue in Camden Town for a “good old bop” 40th anniversary event.

Tickets for the London Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners’ return to the Electric Ballroom, on May 16, are already selling out.

The Pits and Perverts line-up is yet to be finalised but it promises a night of music, dance, drag, political speakers and compered by cabaret and performance artist David Hoyle.

Synth-pop political agitators Bronski Beat headlined the original gig, in December 1984, which drew more than 1,500 fans, gay activists and striking coal miners from across the country to Camden Town.

The story of the LGSM and the night at the Ballroom has become iconic after it was retold in the 2014 film Pride and its glittering cast including George MacKay, Dominic West, Andrew Scott, Imelda Staunton and Bill Nighy among others.

One of the original LGSM organisers, Mike Jackson, told me this week how proud he was about the group’s role in not only supporting the miners – but also changing attitudes towards lesbian and gay people.

Mr Jackson, who lives in King’s Cross, said: “This is the only Pits and Perverts event we’ve had since the original. And it’s really pleasing to be back at the Electric Ballroom. It’s going to be a very diverse night and a good old bop.

“I hadn’t been back there since that day so it was a strange feeling to go in there when we were organising.

“There are lot of ghosts in the Electric Ballroom. So many famous acts have passed through.”

I last spoke to Mike when a signed original Pits and Perverts poster – designed by Kevin Franklin – was put up at the King Charles I pub in King’s Cross in 2022.

On Sunday he was up in Rotherham, Yorkshire, speaking to the miners at a 40th anniversary event.

He said: “I harked back to what it was like as a young gay man in the 60s and 70s. Nobody liked us: politicians, courts, police.

“We had no rights to fight back with. It’s great that things have changed so much with that – and to think how we played a role in it all.

“The unions played a role too.

“Because long before we got those rights enshrined in law, the trade union movement had been helping by starting to look at employment rights, and all the other things that trade unions do.

“When the equalities legislation came in with Tony Blair, there was already a worked-out template for employment rules thanks to the unions.”

Mr Jackson said the LGSM had been “reconstituted” following the Pride movie and that he was part of a group of four remaining working on the legacy.

“We’ve all this merchandise that is still incredibly popular.

“People love our T-shirts. We give the profits away to good causes. We don’t want to be a charity.

“We want to be political. It’s been great to work with the Lesbian and Gays Support the Migrants.

“They are like our next generation really.”

Mr Jackson, a horticulturist who worked at Camden Garden Centre for 16 years, said he was tiring a little physically in old age but still remained as angry as ever.

“The fire is still there. The anger is still there.

“What is this nonsense about people becoming more right wing as they get older? The older I get the more angry I get.

“Because in so much, f*** all has changed.

“I am 72 days before the gig. I can tell you what the news will be: housing, education, war, benefits, the welfare state, greedy capitalism.

“At the same time my best friend is my bed. Sometimes I scream at my bed: ‘I love you, bed.’

“So with all this I am a bit surviving on adrenalin. It’s a bit scary. We are a bunch of amateurs really and it’s a big venue to sell tickets for.

“With the original, we felt the same but once we secured Bronski Beat – I think their Smalltown Boy was No 1 – we knew it would be a success.”

And he revealed his latest theory on where the night got its very excellent name from.

Mr Jackson said: “There’s a great little video you can find called Framed Youth – The Revenge of the Teenage Perverts.

“It was a video project created by the Lesbian and Youth Project, as they were called then, where youngsters had been given training and access to making a video – it was a Ken Livingstone thing, I think.

“This was 42 years ago – two years before the miners strike.

“They go into Ridley Road market in Dalston and simply ask the question: Can you tell me what a lesbian is? It’s like ‘a murderer’, ‘a sex maniac’.

“It’s so comical, but also quite dark. The lesbians were p***ing themselves laughing.

“But that’s what we wanted to do – take the insult, neutralise it and throw it back at people.”

The film, which won an award, is available on YouTube.

The original concert raised more £5,500, which was distributed to families in need.

Tickets for the 7pm event cost £20 and are available on the Electric Ballroom website.'

[devilfic]

some mj lore: I used to be obsessed with fox’s sleepy hollow series when I was a wee teen and I’ve been rewatching it since yesterday because I need some nostalgic comfort

anyway. I am realizing now how silly the historical fantasy in this show really was because what do you mean ichabod used to hook up with betsy ross

[melodythebunny]

I also have some other headcanons for the newport heroes Rose Franklin fills in Becky on what she knows about the heroes. She tried to find out their identities in the past before she moved to Fair City. She doesn't do it when they come to Fair City after her experience with Becky. The heroes sort of adopt Becky and Rex as young hero siblings. Rex hangs out with the four more so than Becky. Dr. Two Brains doesn't like it when Becky actively hangs out with the four. He doesn't forbid her but he tries to discourage her from hanging out with them. Becky is a little wary around Atomic Steel in the beginning because he reminded her of Miss Power a bit. She felt sympathy for him when he finally told her about his dad and how he died. Becky is secretly worried and frightened a bit over Professor Terror and Maddrix the Malicious even though she hasn't met them before. (as far as she knows😈) Two Brains tells her that they are long gone and he won't let them hurt her if they do return. Becky gets confused why her dad always looks sad when she tells him about her worries over the two villains. The reason Dr. Two Brains doesn't want Becky hanging out with the four newport heroes is because he doesn't want them to mention Professor Terror or Maddrix around her. She is better off not knowing about either of them. @dualnaturedscientist

Oddly enough I can see atomic trying to mentor her. Perhaps all four of them fight over mentorship (But everyone knows it's her u-u)

E.b.: thanks to this book written by professor Steven boxleitner I was able to start my path as a hero

wordgirl: same! My dad's book helped me a lot.

E.b.: no way! He's your dad!? 👀 ✨

Fern: oh boy she's excited now-

Anddd then that's when they realize Steven was two brains

[zee-aka-pretty]

My Eldest sister and her husband and her newborn baby came to our house for a short stay- like a month, so now they're doing some changes around the house.

One thing my dumf***ing dearest brother-in-law did this afternoon was to remove our refrigerator plug from its wall socket, and to put a f***ing Three-pin adapter to the socket, so that he could also plug in my mom's sewing machine to the Very Same Wall Socket.

What else are we going to plug into the same wall socket I wonder? a phone charger? a heater? A Microwave Oven?? because there's space on top you see!

I told my twin and my eldest sister about this because this dumbf*** brother-in-law will never take my word for it. But they just said not to interfere if I'm not going to help. To get out of the way if I'm not going to help.

If the F***ing stupid squidward only bothered to ask me properly, and I mean properly, not at 10pm in the previous night,(then I asked him if they're going to sew at that time and bother our neighbours with that much of noise, just because they're up doesn't mean everyone else is) I would've plugged in the sewing machine where it was supposed to go to, and left the fridge alone.

This is how the Three-pin adapter looked like once I unplugged it from the wall socket.

People. Just because it could be done doesn't mean it should be done.

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Benjamin Franklin looked absolutely crazy to any onlookers

“what’s Ben doing during the storm”

“Oh flying his kite”

[poonking]

the best part of the death grips show was this picture i took outside the venue mere minutes before i would be stomped into smithereens in the pit

[tinkerotr]

Montreal’s “underground” music scene is si slept on, however the urge to gate-keep looms large with the ‘musical tiktok-chairs’-like market, as i like to think of it.

commodity of enjoyment is a real fear! never one to suppress it, however, especially when it comes to MUSICA

[marlynnofmany]

Behold, a wizard!

i unironically believe electricity is the closest thing we have to magic in this universe. consider:

it's basically what human "souls" are made of (your consciousness is the result of miniscule amounts of electric charge jumping between neurons in your brain)

when handled incorrectly or encountered in the wild, it is a deadly force that can kill you in at least half a dozen different ways

when treated respectfully and channeled into the proper conduits, it is a power source that forms the backbone of modern society

if you engrave the right sigils into a rock and channel electricity into it, you can make the rock think

there is a dedicated caste of mages (electrical engineers) tasked with researching it in ivory towers

whatever the fuck Galvani was doing with those frog legs

look at this and just try to tell me it isn't a kind of summoning circle