Econterms
Joined 27 August 2009
me
edit- See my main identity at my English Wikipedia user page.
Underway
edit- Roster of Registered U.S. Patent Attorneys 1903 - my first entry into main space
- The Mueller Report
- Samuel Hopkins's U.S. license (?) #366 from 1791
- Popular Science Monthly of 1916
- to do: Francis Galton's work, cited in Benoit Godin's paper on early statistics of science
Wikisource community links
edit- Wiki source user group List: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
- Tool for uploading things from Internet Archive to Commons https://toolserver.org/~tpt/iaUploadBot/step1.php
- Wikisource statistics; http://toolserver.org/~phe/statistics.php?diff=1
- Draft q for scriptorium: Hands-on training on wikisource would be useful for many of us. I have proposed that there be a meeting in North America for training. I put the idea at the new "IdeaLab" space for discussion. If there is some community support it will be easier to get a grant to make it happen. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikisource_training_conference_or_videos
Early aeronautics and aviation
editI have a professional interest in aeronautics and aviation before 1916 and there's a lot here on Wikisource to use and to work on. Need to apply these wonderful categories: Category:Aviation, Category:Aeronautics, and add to Author:Octave Chanute and Author:Cleveland Abbe
- Octave Chanute. 1904. Aerial Navigation. Popular Science Monthly, vol. 64, 385-393. (cited by Brockett, 1910)
- Mayer, Alfred M. 1876. Flying-Machines and Penaud's Artificial Bird. Popular Science Monthly Popular Science Monthly/Volume 8/February 1876/Flying-Machines and Penaud's Artificial Bird (not cited by Brockett, 1910, but should have been -- add it to database --- work on this text!!!
- Flower, W.H. 1886. The wings of birds. Popular Science Monthly 30:16, 240-242. (cited by Brockett, 1910)
- Samuel Pierpont Langley. Experiments with the Langley aerodrome. Popular Science Monthly 73:5 (Nov. 1908), 462-474, ill. 1. (cited by Brockett, 1910)
- Joseph Le Conte. 1888. The Problem of a Flying-Machine. Popular Science Monthly 34 (Nov.), 69-76. (cited by Le Conte, 1894.) (not cited by Brockett, 1910, but should have been' -- add it to database)
- Joseph Le Conte. 1894. New lights on the problem of flying. Popular Science Monthly 44 (April), 744-757. (cited by Brockett, 1910)
- Lucas, Frederick A. 1900. Birds as flying machines. Popular Science Monthly 57:5, 473-478. (Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_57/September_1900/Birds_as_Flying_Machines) (cited by Brockett, 1910)
- Cochrane, Charles H. Recent progress in aerial navigation. Popular Science Monthly 58:6, 1901, 616-624, figs 1-15 (Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_58/April_1901/Recent_Progress_in_Aerial_Navigation]) (cited by Brockett, 1910) -- get back to work: Page:Popular_Science_Monthly_Volume_58.djvu/627)
- Gilbert Grosvenor. The tetrahedral kites of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. Popular Science Monthly 64:2 (Dec., 1903), 131-151, figs 1-22. (cited by Brockett, 1910)
- Aerial navigation. Popular Science Monthly 73:4, 1908, 381-382. (Brockett # 83) (cited by Brockett, 1910)
- Author:Gaston Tissandier! See list: [1]
- Travels in the Air
- Author:Wilfrid de Fonvielle
- 1911 Britannica articles on aeronautics and aerostation
- search 1911 Britannica
- Helene Bonfort. 1895. Wellner's Sail-Wheel Flying Machine. Popular Science Monthly, March 1895. (thanks, Ineuw!) Note this statement: ". . . the aëronautic problem will most probably admit of a satisfactory solution only by means of dynamic flying machines. Prof. Wellner is of the opinion that . . . this end . . . is likely to be attained before the close of our century." (by 1900) And at the end of the article: "The prominent English physicists. Lord Kelvin, Lord Rayleigh, etc., speak of Maxim's air-ship with the greatest enthusiasm; they expect him actually to solve the problem in a near future."
- to do: add Index:United States patent 821393 and connect it to the main page page header and the pdf and put it in the works of orville and wilbur
- started on work of Besio Moreno: https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/P%C3%A1gina:Anales_de_la_Sociedad_Cient%C3%ADfica_Argentina_-_Tomo_77.djvu/261
Notes on The Education of Henry Adams
editThis book difficult to follow, partly because it makes so many oblique references to specifics of the author's time and place. I am reading and taking notes on basic underlying facts of it. The notes are on various discussion pages and clarify the text. Here are key bits:
- page 21 -- relevant locations in Massachusetts: Boston, Quincy, and Medford
- page 22 -- the styles of the many historic houses of his family's, and what the author preferred
- page 32 -- lays out his mother's proximate family tree of notables named Brooks and Adams
- page 37 -- views on American division about slavery circa 1850, in which the author's father Charles Francis Adams Sr was an important figure
BLS portal category
editI work at BLS and transcribe some of its historic work now and then:
- Use this: Portal:United_States_Department_of_Labor#Bureau_of_Labor_Statistics
- and this: Category:PD-USGov
Wikisource techniques
editTo show a hyphenated word at the end of a page:
{{hws|locali|localities}}
and at the beginning of the next page:
{{hwe|ties|localities}}
Making an index
edit- create index with exactly the name of the commons file, prefixed simply by Index:
- save with minimal info filled in
- Then, at least for simple modern docs, add 1=1 and save again
- Then add "Ready to Match"; documents with pagination changes are harder but I don't need to address those cases now