« on: February 15, 2024, 10:52:12 am »
Check this out! He was even in Chicago, Illinois. I think this guy possibly could have built something with those ends on it.
William Hoskins (1862–1934)[1][2][3] was an American inventor, chemist, electrical engineer, and entrepreneur in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most active in Chicago, Illinois. He became the co-inventor in 1897 of modern billiard chalk with professional carom billiards player William A. Spinks.[4][5] He is, however, best known for the invention of the electric heating coil (the basis for numerous ubiquitous household and industrial appliances, including electric stoves, space heaters, and toasters) and the invention of the first electric toaster.[6][7]
It does say Chicago Ill. right on the endcap casting of the center tank. What a fascinating fellow he was! That mini-biography certainly adds interest to the steam plant as a whole, and vastly increases potential pride of ownership ...... it would for me anyway!
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"Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not wisdom, Wisdom is not truth, Truth is not beauty, Beauty is not love, Love is not music: Music is THE BEST...
Wisdom is the domain of the Wis (which is extinct). Beauty is a French phonetic corruption of a short cloth neck ornament currently in resurgence..."
F. Zappa ... by way of Mary, the girl from the bus.
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