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Post by daveh on Aug 5, 2010 7:18:06 GMT -5
There is also a Newport, Salop (Shropshire) and the county is normally added in to differentiate between them. There is also a Newport, Isle Of Wight. Most of the rest of the time we don't bother - compare and contrast with the USA. Mind, there is a Newport, RI there. In fact there are Newports everywhere.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2010 9:41:45 GMT -5
Here we go again. You Brits claiming a Yank invention. Quoting Wikipedia "The first locking pliers, named vise grips, were invented by William Petersen in DeWitt, Nebraska in 1924.[2] The Mole grips were invented by Thomas Coughtrie in 1955, then managing director of M. K. Mole and Son.[3]
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 5, 2010 10:41:07 GMT -5
Uh oh.
Am I to be the cause of another revolutionary war?
Please. Both sides. Stay away from tea.
Mickey
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Post by daveh on Aug 5, 2010 11:46:49 GMT -5
I should also have added that Gwent is a county that came into being in the re-organisation of the 1970s. It is the new name for Monmouth, though there might have been boundary changes.
Just to enter the vice-grip argument: PeterW said Mole grips were invented by a Scotsman, not that he was inventor of all types of locking wrench. Self tightening, and in that sense self locking, wrenches were in use before 1924. Mr Vise then made a wrench with a locking action, but it was a begger to undo. I believe the Mole addition might well have been the quick release lever, which did not appear on the Vise Grip till 1957. I just have to find copies of the original patents to see if that supposition is correct.
As always information about things like this is, at best, sketchy, and often what is published is not fully correct anyway.
William Petersen was Danish by birth.
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Post by Doug T. on Aug 5, 2010 14:06:50 GMT -5
My dad use to smoke Newports Doug
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Post by John Parry on Aug 5, 2010 15:45:43 GMT -5
Wayne - Ha!
You didn't recognise them at first glance as we Brits did !!
You had to Google it!
Regards - John
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Post by John Parry on Aug 5, 2010 15:52:10 GMT -5
Doug
I used to smoke Park Drive Tipped, but they withdrew them. Now I don't know who to sue!
Regards - John
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Post by daveh on Aug 5, 2010 15:58:19 GMT -5
John, I always like your take on things!
Doug, as far as I know Newports didn't make it out of Rhode Island to our shores. Maybe one of the smokers knows better, though. I knew someone who ended up a modern languages professor at Brown University and I know one or two chickens from there, but cigarettes? Don't know them.
Dave.
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Post by Doug T. on Aug 5, 2010 16:45:19 GMT -5
They were nasty menthol things, my dad died young.
I just bought what they call a strap wrench. They came in a package of two. A large one for water filters, and a small one (maybe 4" dia. max ). The straps are rubber and adjustable, so I'll try it on a lens I have with a stuck filter, and see what happens.
Doug
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Post by daveh on Aug 5, 2010 16:59:10 GMT -5
The old trick with a stuck oil filter was to use a sheet of sandpaper to grip the filter. Mind, there wasn't too much worry if the oil filter got scratched.
Fortunately I never got into smoking. I always thought menthol and nicotine were odd bedfellows.
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Post by PeterW on Aug 5, 2010 18:19:34 GMT -5
"Again", Wayne? Take it easy. You'll be telling us next that ENIAC, built at the University of Pensylvania, was the world's first electronic programmable computer. We did invent quite a lot of things, like the steam engine, the jet engine, radar, the railway locomotive, the electric toaster and ... oh yes, the electronic programmable computer PeterW
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 5, 2010 22:26:32 GMT -5
"We did invent quite a lot of things, like the steam engine, the jet engine, radar, the railway locomotive, the electric toaster and ... oh yes, the electronic programmable computer " And don't forget cucumber sandwiches, mushy peas, spotted dick, haggis, fish and chips, Yorkshire pudding, Lucas Electric and Fawlty Towers. How could I forget a Ploughmans Lunch. And the toast rack. I need a snack. Mickey
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