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Talk:Franklin Leonard Pope

message: The article mentions: rail circuit for automatic control of the electric-block signal system in the past tense. As far as I know, they are still used, though I didn't try so hard to find a reference. Gah4 (talk) 05:08, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''rail circuit for automatic control of the electric-block signal system'' 

message: The article makes this claim...
Pope was awarded several patents for his work in railroad semaphore lock signal systems, the most important of which was his 1872 invention for the rail circuit for automatic control of the electric-block signal system, which was widely used by the major U.S. railways.
While it is true that Pope was awarded several patents for his work in automatic signalling, none of them were commercially successful, and his 1872 rail circuit patent (129,425) did not work. The similar technology that *did* work, and was universally adopted by the railway industry, was the track circuit. This was invented in 1871 by a rival, William Robinson (William Robinson (inventor)). A track circuit functions in a completely different way to Pope's rail circuit; the only similarity is that they use the rails to conduct an electric current.
You will struggle to find any book on the history of railway signalling that mentions Pope, while they all ascribe the invention of the track circuit to Robinson. An easily accessible source is this book published in 1922 by the Signal Section of the American Railway Association. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45179 MAndrewWaugh (talk) 23:08, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assertion about  automatic control of the electric-block signal system
Talk:Lysergol

message: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8923801
Naturally occurring clavines: antagonism/partial agonism at 5-HT2A receptors and antagonism at alpha 1-adrenoceptors in blood vessels.
Pertz H1.
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The interaction of eight typical representatives of naturally occurring clavines (agroclavine, costaclavine, dihydrolysergol-l, elymoclavine, festuclavine, lysergene, lysergol, and pyroclavine) with 5-HT2A receptors and alpha 1-adrenoceptors was studied in rat tail artery and aorta, respectively. Clavines antagonized 5-HT-induced contractions with calculated pKB values (pKP values for partial agonists) of 4.84-7.81 and (R)-phenylephrine-induced contractions with calculated pKB values of 5.34-7.09. Specificity of clavines at 5-HT2A receptors relative to alpha 1-adrenoceptors was rather low. Low affinity for costaclavine at both 5-HT2A receptors (pKP = 4.84 +/- 0.06) and alpha 1-adrenoceptors (pKB = 5.34 +/- 0.05) indicates that the trans-junction of ring C and D of the ergoline pharmacophore is crucial for the binding of ergolines to these sites. Lysergol, lysergene, and costaclavine produced non-parallel displacements of the 5-HT concentration-response curve in the rat tail artery and caused small contractions by themselves. Lysergol contracted the rat tail artery with a pEC50 of 6.36 +/- 0.04 and an intrinsic activity of 0.18 +/- 0.03 with respect to 5-HT. Lysergol-induced contractile responses were surmountably antagonized by ketanserin (10 nM) with a pKB of 9.1 which is consistent with an interaction of lysergol with 5-HT2A receptors. The pKP for the lysergol-5-HT2A receptor complex calculated from concentration-response curves to lysergol was 6.88 +/- 0.07 and did not match the pKP of 7.66 +/- 0.02 calculated from antagonism by lysergol of the contractile response to 5-HT. This suggests that lysergol and 5-HT possibly bind in two slightly different orientations at the 5-HT2A receptor. It is concluded that partial agonism and pure antagonism at 5-HT2A receptors on the one side and antagonism at alpha 1-adrenoceptors on the other side may contribute to the noxious effects of naturally occurring clavines.
PMID: 8923801 DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-957922
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thread_title:  Hht2a and adrenoreceptor affinities :) 
Talk:George A. Philbrick

message: Because of the role of Clarence A. Lovell (C. A. Lovell) and his team(s) at Bell Labs (doing wartime research), I suggest that an article be developed for Clarence A. Lovell (using materials already available in the Philbrick article.  There seems to have been an article on Clarence A. Lovell (which was removed, as indicated by what had been a dead link).  Perhaps that article could be brought back and developed.  MaynardClark (talk) 17:58, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarence A. Lovell
Talk:Greg Timp

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.nd.edu/~gtimp/#. Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:15, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Henry T. Nicholas III

message: This sounds like Henry wrote it. 75.81.190.87 (talk) 02:41, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Started work on fixing this from being a vanity piece and making it more encyclopedic.  If anyone has any issues with this, bring it up here before reverting my edits that are well within the guidelines. Cowicide (talk) 21:26, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vanity page 

message: I think either Henry himself or some of his moogs are trying to quell the scandal here on wikipedia.  If the vandal edits keep up, I'm going to recommend a lock on this page for only established editors.
Details of scandal:
 source: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0605082nicholas1.html Cowicide (talk) 21:42, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scandal 

message: The part about UC Davis lawschool filing an action in opposition to Marsy's Law is not really about Nicholas but as there is not a seperate article about it, I thought it appropriate to put it here. How does one get an invitation to the cave? (just kidding) Mike Hayes (talk) 19:14, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Criminal justice and politics
Talk:Irma Wyman

message: Note: Dr. Irma Wyman helped Honeywell employees to fund
home-based (Apple) micro-computers during mid-1980's ...
i4CQuest: What were the unexpected "social capital" impacts
of her future thought leadership & community stewardship?''
Author(s): Davenport, Thomas H.
Publication Date: 05/01/1989
Product Type:
Harvard Business Review Article
Source-URL: :: https://hbr.org/1989/05/the-case-of-the-soft-software-proposal
GeoVenturing (talk) 15:21, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: MentorshupART
Talk:Bolkiah

message: Sultan Bolkiah was the fifth Sultan of Brunei. He ascended the throne of Brunei upon the abdication of his father, Sultan Sulaiman. He ruled Brunei from 1485 to 1524. His reign was known as the Golden Age because Brunei became the superpower of the Malay archipelago. Under Sultan Bolkiah, Brunei prospered further, but he was still unsatisfied with Brunei's progress and ordered all his chiefs and ministers to seek new ideas to develop Brunei further. He frequently travelled abroad to broaden his outlook and increase his knowledge for the development of his country. The new ideas he brought back to Brunei were ordered to be studied in detail and pursued for implementation for the benefit of his people and country. 
 
The tomb of Sultan Bolkiah, near Kota Batu, Brunei. (not to be confused with Cotabato in the Philippines)
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Sultan Bolkiah's victory over Sulu and Selurong (now Manila), and his marriages to Leila Mechanai the daughter of Sultan Amir Ul-Ombra of Sulu,  and to the daughter of Datu Kemin, widened Brunei's influence in the Philippines. This increased Brunei's wealth as well as extended Islamic teachings in the region. The influence and power of Brunei reached its climax during the reign of Sultan Bolkiah. KNOWN AS "THE SINGING Captain" His dominiom far reaching Selurong (Island of Luzon) and/or Manila. He allowed his peoples to venture out of Brunei due to over population migrating into North Borneo and to the Sulu (Solook). visiting the Islands, He planted a speck grain of pepper on its beaches upon arrival and naming some islands,to name a few, as Sitangkay, Siganggang, Simunol, etc, etc,. His doniniom also far reached Bulungan (North Borneo) to Johore (Singapore), that Brunei, its ancient name was Bulungan Johore. His father-in-law, Sultan Amir Ul-Ombra (Amir Ul-Umara) the Sulu Sultan who was also known as the Sultan Bolkiah of Sulu who recovered Bulungan-North Borneo back to the brunei Sultan during a Kalimantan Revolt of Southern Borneo. After his death, Sultan Bolkiah (Bulkieau) was succeeded by his son, Abdul Kahar. He was buried in Kota Batu with his wife, Princess Lela Mechanai. Source information also taken from the book, “Muslims in the Philippines”, authored by Dean Dr. Cesar Majul.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.202.164.102 (talk) 08:14, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: untitled
Talk:Jeff Sitar

message: Can someone find a birth date? The best I could do was to pin down with various articles, that listed his current age at time of publication, that he would have been aged 56 between April 19, 2018 and December 11, 2018, so his 57th birthday should have been somewhere between December 12, 2018 - April 18, 2019. Riveted (talk) 03:00, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth Date?
Talk:Joel White

message: Dropping some links, this needs to be worked on.
NYT obit : http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03EEDB153CF933A25751C1A961958260
The Lehmann-Haupt mention in
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE6D61438F932A35751C1A96E948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
WOOD, WATER & LIGHT: CLASSIC WOODEN BOATS, text by Joel White, photographs by Benjamin Mendlowitz (177 pages. W. W. Norton. $45 until Dec. 31, $50 thereafter). Untainted by snobbery, this lovely work includes a dinghy, a runabout, a lobsterboat, a peapod, a sardine carrier, an oceangoing yacht, several speedboats and all manner of sailboats. What they all have in common is wood, which combined with water and light, lend them an aura that only the eye can apprehend and that the photographs in this volume convey most delectably.
at Google: http://books.google.com/books?id=z8rywp0HDa0C&dq=Wood,+Water+%26+Light:+Classic+Wooden+Boats&pg=PP1&ots=1v-FrxFt72&sig=LQ99CHhgAvMTGFVBO81x70ddTzo&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result
w-class: http://www.w-class.com/  —Preceding unsigned comment added by OtterSmith (talk • contribs) 23:24, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Condensed from "Joel White Boatbuilder / Designer / Sailor" by Bill Mayher and Maynard Bray, photographs by Benjamin Mendlowitz, and elaborated by threads on the Wooden Boat Forum discussing some of those and other designs.
number       	year         	LOA          	Type                    	name
0            	1954         	34'0"        	Tunnel-sterned powerboat	power cruiser
row 2, cell 1	row 2, cell 2	row 2, cell 3	row 2, cell 4           	row 2, cell 5
# Year LOA   Type                     Name
0 1954 34'0" Tunnel-sterned powerboat power cruiser
1 1962 34'0" Power cruiser            Kishti
2 1963  9'6" V-Bottomed plywood skiff Martha's Tender
3 1969 35'3" Cruising sloop           Cachalot
4 1975 34'0" Tugboat (steel)          Mussel
incomplete htom (talk) 23:00, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joel White's Designs
Talk:John D. Kraus

message: A cyclotron measured by its weight? Has anybody information on the diameter, voltage and usage of the cyclotron at the University of Michigan? On the net I could only find some report on the upgrade of the cyclotron way after the WWII. --DrJunge (talk) 17:22, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cyclotron

message: Dr. Kraus' development of sound-control mechanisms, his invention of the cyclical antenna, and especially his development of the radio observatory at Delaware, OH, need to be mentioned here. He and his wife were also instrumental in getting a part of the upper Olentangy River protected from development under one of the early invocations of the Wild Rivers Act. I helped to edit "Big Ear": citations from that book would give a better summary of his achievements than this article does at present (I don't know how to enter them with proper footnoting or I would). 108.20.70.31 (talk) 01:22, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Omissions
Talk:Boniface Adoyo

message: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/sep/10/theobserver.kenya
I don't want to edit this because of the creationist / evolutionist stuff.  I find it hard to maintain NPOV (I'm firmly evolutionist) NotAnIP83:149:66:11 (talk) 23:23, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK Guardian newspaper
Talk:Michael Joseph Owens

message: "By 1865 he was a master glassblower" he was born 1859. So he was a master glass blower with 6!! years? Hard to believe...217.167.123.101 (talk) 08:30, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Age

message: Owens revolutionized the glass industry.  His automation enabled standardation of containers, and made the glass-industry practice of using child labor obsolete.  Although his machines decreased the demand for the services of skilled glass blowers, they increased employment because they created a new market of glass bottle users.  Owens was an early user of standardized parts.  He was a pioneer in organized R&D.  Owens has 49 patents!  Owens should be considered in the same "league" as Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, yet we have this tiny Wikipedia article.  Somebody needs to upgrade this article. TwoScars (talk) 18:03, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs Upgrade
Talk:Peter Swerling

message: I have removed the link to Angus Taylor because it was linked to the wrong Angus Taylor. The Angus Taylor associated with Swerling is deceased and was a professor of Mathematics at, I believe, UCLA.  For information regarding Swerling's advisor, see the following:
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/inmemoriam/AngusE.Taylor.htm
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.100.171.250 (talk) 15:46, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you very much for the correction. I have corrected the link from the article. --Jiuguang Wang (talk) 16:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Angus Taylor Reference

message: The "Obituary" section appears to be a direct cut-and-paste from USC's website here.  It's not cited, so at the very least that needs to happen.  But I also question whether a complete obituary is appropriate material, even for a famous person (which is only true of Swerling in certain circles).  If the information must be included, I feel it should be distilled so that only truly important info is retained.  IrishCowboy (talk) 14:52, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obituary cut-and-paste? 

message: Sources differ.  Myrna Oliver , writing the obit for the LA Times a few days after the fact, has PS's place of death as Santa Monica.  Smith and Goldstein's article is adapted from Oliver, as well as the USC News piece.  Simon Golomb, writing several months after the fact, has the place of death as Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. Dgorsline (talk) 12:19, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Apologies, that should be Solomon Golomb. Dgorsline (talk) 12:23, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Place of death

message: Employees of TSC purchased the company from Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1993. TSC is now an employee-owned company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_Service_Corporation  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:ED0:4294:7000:9B9:ABD1:6801:83B8 (talk) 08:34, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Technology Service Corporation
Talk:Russell Ohl

message: The external link "IEEE History Center: Oral History of Russell Ohl" is broken.  Is the page still available from IEEE or otherwise.  Can anyone fix this?  Thanks, PeterEasthope (talk) 03:35, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken external link 

message: On Russell Ohl I may have some bio (relatives) to add to this article. I am new as not sure if this would be appropriate. For example, Russel Ohl is my grandfather.Karl in Spokane (talk) 02:28, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bio for Russell S. Ohl 

message: Checkingfax (talk) 04:53, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo request of R.S. Ohl
Talk:Theophilus Van Kannel

message: Fascinating blog post at http://thenonist.com/index.php/thenonist/the_secret_history_of_the_revolving_door/ (which may contain mistruths, as he states at the end), and another pointer to http://web.archive.org/web/20050729092111/http://web.mit.edu/lit/www/spotlightarticles/revolution.html Some of which might be useful here. -- Quiddity (talk) 21:03, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Background reference
Talk:Lewis S. Mills High School

message: I think we need to rewrite the top description
User 68.198.197.216 deleted a section of the article about a federal lawsuit that has been filed against Lewis S. Mills High School.  No information was provided about why the user deleted this material.  An explanation of what the user was thinking would be appreciated.Leslie Graves 19:55, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  January 2008 
Talk:Tom Dolan (engineer)

message: Expanded on this page a bit. Info is correct and I included hyper links to other wikipages for reference.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.23.228.129 (talk) 01:45, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Added some info

message: The link is broken for the first citation. Chris Dolan (talk) 20:56, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Naphthalocyanine

message: I think, that the JMol image shown here is not the aromatic compund mentionned here but the fully hydrogenated molecule. It is easily seen by rotating the molecule a bit.     84.226.107.145 (talk) 10:54, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The JMol image is generated automatically from the SMILES string in the infobox.  The SMILES didn't match the structure depicted in the drawing, so I updated it.  The JMol image appears to be correct now.  -- Ed (Edgar181) 13:09, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: WOW that was really fast!  Thank you very much Ed! 84.226.107.145 (talk) 13:41, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  JMol Image
Talk:William E. Sawyer

message: This article is part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 and the Good article (GA) drive to reassess and potentially delist over 200 GAs that might contain copyright and other problems.  An AN discussion closed with consensus to delist this group of articles en masse, unless a reviewer opens an independent review and can vouch for/verify content of all sources. Please review Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 for further information about the GA status of this article, the timeline and process for delisting, and suggestions for improvements.  Questions or comments can be made at the project talk page.  MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:37, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment 

message: This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. SandyGeorgia (Talk)  00:44, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible copyright problem
Talk:George Lee (footballer)

message: The Who's Who of West Bromwich Albion lists him as George Thomas Lee. If this is not correct, please provide evidence of this rather than simply removing his middle name. --Jameboy (talk) 13:07, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is quite interesting - Football League Players' Records 1888 - 1939 lists him as George Thomas Lee, but Citizens and Minstermen, A Who's Who of York City FC 1922-1997 gives George Chester Lee. More sources list his middle name as Thomas so I'd go with that, but maybe leave a note mentioning how Chester has also been mentioned? Mattythewhite (talk) 13:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

text: I'll leave his full name as "George Lee", but with footnotes acknowledging the middle names quoted in the above sources. If you can find printed references stating that he has no middle name (could be tricky, admittedly), that would be fantastic. --Jameboy (talk) 20:44, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you know his mother's maiden name then you can check the GRO birth index, the nearest I could find is September quarter 1919 York volume 9d page 55 with a mother's maiden name of Slater - this entry has no middle initial given for it. Keith D (talk) 12:15, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Middle name
Talk:Kippax, West Yorkshire

message: This article sounds like it has been written with a bias against ongoing development and the loss of Kippax own identity.
--87.81.156.162 19:59, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, There's a template  you can put on the article itself to convey the same message - more chance of people seeing it there probably! Cheers, PamD (talk) 14:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Keith, looking at the less than beautiful village centre, I agree the 2 buildings are eyesores but ...   Do you think the picture and description are potentially part of a POV campaign?  Regards JRPG (talk) 19:27, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like the section needs some attention to remove most of the POV and just to leave some basic detail. Only the final sentence is referenced but that could be relocated elsewhere as not really specific to the section, if moved could we do without the section? Keith D (talk) 21:18, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Village centre
Talk:NAF (non-profit organization)

message: I don't think this is independently notable. Size of either doesn't preclude a merger. Star Mississippi 20:08, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain (talk) 16:44, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[Academy of Finance]] into [[NAF (non-profit organization)#History]]
Talk:Don't Ask Me (OK Go song)

message: :The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the proposal was
moved to Don't Ask Me (OK Go song); no consensus here, but clear examples given of other possible topics with equal or greater priority, and the best solution is given below. Please change "Don't Ask Me" to a dab page and create articles for the other worthy items, as suggested; this should satisfy all parties. ProhibitOnions (T) 19:47, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move