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This is at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. This is a statue of Thomas Jefferson.

Those bricks behind him?

Writer and artist, Kay Burford, was among the first three women to attend the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. She was also and avid feline-phile! In 1984, Burford wrote and illustrated a humorous “self help book for cats” entitled Follow Your Own Footsteps. 

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Things I Am Not Currently Doing

Image from ‘A Thousand Miles up the Nile … With … illustrations, etc’, 001040573

Author: EDWARDS, Amelia Blandford.

Volume: 02

Page: 187

Year: 1877

Place: London

Publisher:

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Patent Case File 2,292,387; Patent Case Files, 1836-1993; Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, Record Group 241; National Archives 

Did you know the screen legend Hedy Lamarr was also a patent holder?  Having fled Europe and an unhappy marriage to an Austrian munitions manufacturer, Lamarr relocated to the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II.  In collaboration with avant-garde composer George Antheil, the two used knowledge from their respective fields to patent a “secret communication system.”  Their invention was intended to guide a torpedo by remote control to an enemy target, utilizing a novel synchronized frequency-hopping radio signal to prevent any jamming or interference from the enemy.

Figure 7 above depicts the torpedo in action, controlled from a mother ship and spotter aircraft, adjusting course to account for the ocean current and the enemy ship’s evasive maneuvers.

Image from ’[Our own country. Descriptive, historical, pictorial.]’, 002732646

Author:

Volume: 01

Page: 241

Year: 1885

Place: London

Publisher: Cassell & Co.

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We can’t find any information about James and Maud Roberston, but they certainly had a very Romantic bookplate for their library.