Help to trace old article

I may have asked this question before but need to ask it again because I have no idea where I saved the info (getting old!!).

Some years ago in ME a short series of articles dealing with the memories of an apprentice? at Greenwich/Woolwich arsenals was published. In one of these articles my father was mentioned.

I have no "history" of him and only knew him for the 14 years between my birth and his death.

Can anyone help? I thought I had the relevant magazines but can't find them.

The articles where probably published in the 1980/1995 era but I,m not sure of the date or the authors name.

Any help anyone? Thanks.

Is this it ?

Hi Nathan,

These are the results of typing 'Woolwich Arsenal' into the ME database of articles. There is an article published in 1987 which may be the one.

The searchable database of ME and MEW is here.

Best regards,

Terry

Hello Nathan,

Searching for “One man” or “One boy” in the field title and “andon” (for Brandon) – and this were the elements I could remember to serve me as criteria for the search in ME_Indexes free application **LINK** , I found the following data:

Volume: 147
Year: 1981
Author: L. Brandon
Issue 3651, page 237;
Issue 3653, page 372;
Issue 3655, page 500;
Issue 3657, page 636;
Issue 3659, page 752;
Issue 3661, page 881
Issue 3665, page 1135.

I think that with the same criteria you could find the same data in the second URL in the Terry's post.

Hope this is what you were lookiong for.

Best regards
Dias Costa

A little while ago I saw an article on a ME course where they were teaching the building of a Stuart turner stationery engine on a one week course. Can someone give contact details of the course or tell me the issue to find it in please?

gareth jones

Hello Gareth.

Using ME_Index free application  ***LINK*** and the criteria STUART or TURNER  (too broad a criteria) in the article title field I found 512 articles (please remember there are more than 178000 articles in the database). If you are interested I can send to you the articles found in an Excel format file. In case you are interested please send a personal message to me.
The search can be more refined if you have some additional elements to add to the criteria.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 08/12/2012 16:22:56

Dias,

Off-topic for this particular thread but ...

I am delighted to report that your post, above [16:20:26] displays well on the iPad.

Thanks for whatever you have changed.

MichaelG.

Hello MichaelG, good evening!

Also off-topic for this particular thread and asking David Clarck to delete this post if so he wants...

MG: I am delighted to report that your post, above [16:20:26] displays well on the iPad.
DC: For a while and every time I will remember I will take care to change the font of my writings to this forum out of respect for you and the other few iPad users participating.

MG: Thanks for whatever you have changed.
DC: For that post (and this one also) I edited it as usual in the LibreOffice Writer and at the end converted to the Arial font prior to copy and paste it to the forum.

This is only a workaround to colaborate with a surprised Apple iPad user and, in my opinion, not the correct one because can't be guaranted and certainly also not generalized.

The world of IT has run a long way trying to standardize fonts (as well as other items) and has achieved an acceptable status of conformity.

Apple should not expose its customers to dependent situations like this.
After all, the Comic Sans font in the Windows environment is too old to be ignored so daringly. Only to catch a greater market share...

In the bellow URL which I suspect is owned by Apple I can understand there are fragments of a continuing “war” known by me from long ago and I'd like to say that if I don't like Microsoft I am even lesser fond of Apple ***LINK*** .

There,
Somebody asks:
I am using ipad ios 5.1.1 and when i view a website with Comic Sans MS it does not recognise it. Does this font not come as standard on the ipad ?

And someother person answers:
Comsidering that's a Microsoft font, why would it come standard on an Apple device? ***LINK***

Best regards
Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 08/12/2012 23:21:49

Thanks again, Dias

I have sent you a PM

MichaelG.

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P.S.  To understand the origin, and original purpose, of Comic Sans, it is worth reading this.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 09/12/2012 08:50:40

For the benefit of anyone bewildered by this off-topic digression

There is a useful Wikipedia page about font-families, here.

... Apologies for the intrusion.

MichaelG.

Hello Nathan !

Mr. Philipe Orchard (the author of the data in my free application ME_index ***LINK*** ) sent a message to me, helping about your post in this thread. Here goes its content in the part concerning your quest:
“I think he should look in Volume 159 on page 379 where he would find the second in a series of six articles entitled “Tricks of the Trade …..” by John Day. On the following page, 380, a Nathan Sharpe is mentioned just under the heading “About Milling Machines”.

The full series may be found at volume 158 pages 322 and 712, volume 159 pages 379 and 510, and volume 160 pages 26 and 224.”

Hope this information still has some utility for you.

P.S.: You can find Mr. Orchard's site information here: ***LINK***

Best regards
Dias Costa

Hello Gareth !

Mr. Philipe Orchard (the author of the data in my application ME_index ***LINK*** ) sent a message to me, with help about your post in this thread. Here goes its content in the part concerning your quest:

“Gareth Jones may care to look at volume 190 page 686, volume 197 page 135, and volume 199 page 220. He might find it useful to contact the SM&EE at ***LINK*** ”.

Hope this information is still useful.

P.S.: You can find Mr. Orchard's site here: ***LINK***

Best regards
Dias Costa

Well done Dias knew you would come up with the answer

Bob