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Grandpa SpaineAfter searching online I found 19 patents issued to my grandfather, an engineer for Singer Sewing Machines. He was an engineer who developed among the first button-holer, as well as several other devices. His last invention, the baseball sewing machine, was never patented because Singer decided it was cheaper to have Haitians do them by hand. |
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| Uncle Peter recently discovered and sent me the papers from one of the hoaxes he did with Dad, the Mushrooms of Zanzibar. I scanned them, transcribed them, and made them available here for family or anyone else interested.
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Xu YanLin's uncle Xu Yan died a few years ago. He had retired to Beijing, where he painted city scenes and self portraits compulsively, in summer and winter, rain and snow. His story and paintings can be seen on my subsite here |
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