Thanks Dayton

[YOhio]

In what is destined to be a popular CUF feature, I am unveiling the first part of Thanks Dayton! How Dayton, Ohio has Made this World a Better Place.

This weeks entry is the electric calculator. In 1938, NCR engineers (nerds!!!) Joe Desch and Bob Mumma designed 8, a working prototype the size of a house door that could only add three digits at a time. By 1942 the invention was refined to add, subtract and multiply up to 10 digits, but division was still out of the question. Shortly after this, the Navy sought the assistance of NPR to help Uncle Sam take down the Nazis. Important work on the electric calculator ceased, and Desch and Mumma were put to work on a code-breaking machine which pretty much put Hitler and his pals in their place.

So today when a machine does your math for you, give a silent thanks to Dayton.

[Jeff Lebowski]

That is impressive.

[happyone]

How are you determining what to put in, least to most important, what happend this week? My nomintation is for the best aircraft measuem in the US, maybe in the world ( the air force meuseam at WP AFB )

[YOhio]

How are you determining what to put in, least to most important, what happend this week? My nomintation is for the best aircraft measuem in the US, maybe in the world ( the air force meuseam at WP AFB )

It will all be very subjective. Order has no significance, though I will first focus on Dayton's lesser known contributions to the great world we live in.

[TripletDaddy]

There is an Elder currently serving in my ward...he was a music major at BYU. He is from Dayton.

He has volunteered to play piano on several occasions when nobody else would play.

Thanks, Dayton!

[RobinFinderson]

One of my favorite Gillian Welch songs is about a pageant queen from Ohio. Embedding for this one has been disabled, but here is the YouTube LINK.

[TripletDaddy]

Thanks, Ohio!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/11/...rss_topstories

[YOhio]

From an early age Dayton, Ohio native Nancy Cartwright knew that she had a unique voice. Whether in speaking competitions, participating in theater or band, Nancy found success and happiness. But sometimes her exuberance sometimes got the best of her. Attending Fairmont High School in Kettering, a Dayton suburb, Nancy and her bandmates would lead the school in the "Fairmont West!" cheer. One thing lead to another and the cheer changed from the peppy and supportive to the irreverent "Eat my shorts!" I'm certain that the Nancy and her friends laughed for some time after the execution of this prank. But the laughter didn't stop for Nancy.

About twelve years later Nancy began performing voice work for a crudely drawn animation that would be incorporated into segments of the Tracy Ullman Show, a sketch program running on the upstart Fox Network. Nancy provided the voice of Bart Simpson the rebellious pre-teen. At one point during an early table reading Nancy deviated from script as she hearkened back to her Fairmont High days and ad-libbed "Eat My Shorts!" Perfect! What was once a high school band joke in Dayton soon became the hit phrase of the nineties. Just another reason to Thank Dayton.

[Non Sequitur]

Dayton is pit. I spent a year in Beaver Creek, a suburb of Ohio. I swear, every night on the news there was a report of a shooting in Dayton. Detroit has nothing on Dayton.

[Non Sequitur]

One of my favorite Gillian Welch songs is about a pageant queen from Ohio. Embedding for this one has been disabled, but here is the YouTube LINK.

I love Gillian Welch, but the chick needs to eat a burger or two. Has Karen Carpenter not taught us anything?

[YOhio]

100 years ago today the Wright Brothers returned to Dayton in grand fashion, with the community celebrating the success of their product demonstration in France. In typical fashion, the brothers were not receptive to the attention thrown at them.

Indeed, Wilbur made that point succinctly in a letter to his friend, Octave Chanute: “The Dayton presentation has been made the excuse for an elaborate carnival and advertisement of the city under the guise of being an honor to us. As it was done in spite of our known wishes, we are not as appreciative as we might be.”

Chanute's response was perfect.

“... in this case you have brought the trouble upon yourselves by your completing the solution of a world-old problem, accomplished with great ingenuity and patience at much risk of personal injury to yourselves.”

[doctorcoug]

In what is destined to be a popular CUF feature, I am unveiling the first part of Thanks Dayton! How Dayton, Ohio has Made this World a Better Place.

This weeks entry is the electric calculator. In 1938, NCR engineers (nerds!!!) Joe Desch and Bob Mumma designed 8, a working prototype the size of a house door that could only add three digits at a time. By 1942 the invention was refined to add, subtract and multiply up to 10 digits, but division was still out of the question. Shortly after this, the Navy sought the assistance of NPR to help Uncle Sam take down the Nazis. Important work on the electric calculator ceased, and Desch and Mumma were put to work on a code-breaking machine which pretty much put Hitler and his pals in their place.

So today when a machine does your math for you, give a silent thanks to Dayton.

is it in the water?

My wife is from Dayton and she is always talking about the inventions that came out of Ohio. I guess the Ohio pride is pretty wide-spread.

[Tim]

100 years ago today the Wright Brothers returned to Dayton in grand fashion, with the community celebrating the success of their product demonstration in France. In typical fashion, the brothers were not receptive to the attention thrown at them.



Chanute's response was perfect.

I went to the Outer Banks a few times while I was living in North Carolina, and twice I stopped in Kill Devil Hills to walk where they walked. Their accomplishment was amazing, and their humility made the whole thing all the more impressive.

[Indy Coug]

100 years ago today the Wright Brothers returned to Dayton in grand fashion, with the community celebrating the success of their product demonstration in France. In typical fashion, the brothers were not receptive to the attention thrown at them.



Chanute's response was perfect.

I'm impressed you managed to hold your Wright Brothers wad until the 3rd installment of why Dayton shouldn't be held with the kind of contempt or indifference as Cleveland or Payson.

[YOhio]

I'm impressed you managed to hold your Wright Brothers wad until the 3rd installment of why Dayton shouldn't be held with the kind of contempt or indifference as Cleveland or Payson.

You live in Allentown, PA. Please take your seat.