Friday, March 8, 2013
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Reflection (country project)
The country project to me was very well because I learned
more about other countries and places that I could visit. I enjoyed all the virtual
tours because it shows you very cool and nice places to visit if I ever travel
or go on a vacation. I didn’t enjoy that we had to stand up in front of the
class and that we had have a lot of information. If I could change the project I
would change it so that we would be able to actually pick if we wanted to stand
in front of the class or sit in the back and present that way, also have less
slides. I felt very good about this project because it gave me confidence to
get up in front of the class and try to face my fear, overall I believe this
was a very good project to take upon students.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Mary Anderson
Mary Anderson
Who invited the wind shield wiper? People may ask; it’s
quite known actually. A woman named Mary Anderson born in Alabama in town
called Greene County in February 19 1866. Mary Anderson was the daughter of John
C. and Rebecca she had one sister named Fannie. Mary’s father died when she was
4. In 1889, they moved to Birmingham and built the Fairmont Apartment building
at 1211 21st Street South on the corner of Highland Avenue.
Anderson left
home in 1893 at age 27 to operate a cattle ranch and vineyard in Fresno,
California, Mary Anderson had many occupations she did; real estate developer,
rancher, viticulturist and was the inventor of the windshield wiper blade. Early
in the twentieth century, Anderson traveled to New York City while riding in a
trolley there; she noticed that the motorman had to remove snow and sleet from
the front window by stopping the trolley, getting out, and cleaning the windows
by hand. When she returned to Birmingham she sketched a design for a
hand-operated device and had a local company produce a working model. She
applied for, and was granted, a 17-year patent for a windshield wiper. In 1905,
she wrote a Canadian firm about purchasing the patent, but the company saw no
commercial value in the device and declined to produce it saying "we do
not consider it to be of such commercial value as would warrant our undertaking
its sale."
After the patent expired in 1920 and the automobile
manufacturing business grew exponentially, windshield wipers using Anderson's
basic design became standard equipment. During this time the sisters briefly
owned a "summer home" on Broadway Street in Edgewood. They built the
Fairmont Apartments on Highland Avenue at 21st Street South (the present site
of 2101 Highland Avenue) in 1913 and served as resident managers. Anderson
continued to manage the Fairmont Apartments and cared for her nephews,
Armistead and Thornton Nelson after her sister's death.
She herself died,
at the age of 87, in another summer house she owned in Monteagle, Tennessee. At
the time of her death she was the oldest member of South Highland Presbyterian
Church. Her funeral was conducted by Frank Mathes at South Highland and she was
buried at Elmwood Cemetery.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Identity Theft
If you are a victim of ID theft you can call your credit card company to cancel it so the people who stole your credit card or well identity can get arrested. If you keep still getting bills make sure to set up a new bank account or get a new credit card number. Identity theft means when someone steals your cards and tries to become you they also buy new things, things that they always wanted. I haven’t really given identity theft into consideration but I’m going to keep it in mind because i don’t want to become in debt or get in trouble for someone else’s actions.
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