Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

December 1945 was a good time for beer lovers to be in Manila. The war was over and the city was awash with Australian lager after U.S. Navy divers salvaged 1,000 cases from a sunken ship. Sailors could buy a case of 48 bottles for $1. Happy National Beer Lovers Day!




Sept 7, 1795: John William Polidori was born in Westminster. In 1810 he went to the University of Edinburgh, where he wrote a thesis on sleepwalking and received his degree as a doctor of medicine on August 1, 1815, at the age of 19. In the horrible year of 1816 he became the long-suffering personal physician to Lord Byron. Dr. Polidori is also the creator of the first modern vampire story. His most successful work was the short story "The Vampyre" (1819), the first published modern vampire story.

The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire

By Andrew McConnell Stott

From that famed night of ghost-stories in a Lake Geneva villa in 1816, as well as Frankenstein's monster, there arose that other great figure of 19th-century gothic fiction - the vampire - a creation of Lord Byron's personal physician John Polidori. Andrew McConnell Stott explores how a fractious relationship between Polidori and his poet employer lies behind the tale, with Byron himself providing a model for the blood-sucking aristocratic figure of the legend we are familiar with today.

A vampire is a thirsty thing, spreading metaphors like antigens through its victim’s blood. It is a rare situation that is not revealingly defamiliarized by the introduction of a vampiric motif, whether it be migration and industrial change in Dracula, adolescent sexuality in Twilight, or racism in True Blood. Beyond undead life and the knack of becoming a bat, the vampire’s true power is its ability to induce intense paranoia about the nature of social relations to ask, “who are the real bloodsuckers?”

This is certainly the case with the first fully realized vampire story in English, John William Polidori’s 1819 story, “The Vampyre.” It is Polidori’s text that establishes the vampire as we know it via a reimagining of the feral mud-caked creatures of southeastern European legend as the elegant and magnetic denizens of cosmopolitan assemblies and polite drawing rooms.

In the summer that never came (1816) at the Villa Diodati, a house Lord Byron rented by Lake Geneva in Switzerland, the pair met with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, her husband-to-be, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their companion (Mary's stepsister) Claire Clairmont.


They all spent three days together inside the house writing & telling stories to each other in a contest, two of which were developed into landmark works of the Gothic horror genre: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Vampyre, the first modern vampire story, by Polidori.


The tale was first published in book form by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones in London, Paternoster-Row, in 1819 in octavo as The Vampyre; A Tale in 84 pages. The notation on the cover noted that it was: "Entered at Stationers' Hall, March 27, 1819". Initially, the author was given as Lord Byron on the title page. After Polidori protested, later printings removed Byron's name from the title page but did not replace it with Polidori's.

Read/Download sources:

Standard Ebooks

Project Gutenberg

Google Books PDF

Public domain audiobook at LibriVox

The Vampyre by John Polidori | full audiobook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ4Djs_7AqM


The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori (1816) (PDF) Relating to Byron, Shelley, etc. Edited and Elucidated by William Michael Rossetti.

Polidori had an early sudden death "By The Visitation Of God". He died at his father's London house, weighed down by depression and gambling debts. Despite conjecture from his family that he died by suicide by means of prussic acid (Hydrogen cyanide), the coroner gave a verdict of death by natural causes.


Nova et Vetera


Sept 7, 1927: the first fully electronic television system is achieved by American inventor Philo T. Farnsworth who transmitted an image through the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the image dissector.

When Philo was 13, he envisioned a contraption that would receive an image transmitted from a remote location—the television. Farnsworth submitted a patent in January 1927, when he was 19, and began building and testing his invention that summer. He used an "image dissector" (the first television camera tube) to convert the image into a current, and an "image oscillite" (picture tube) to receive it. On this day his tests bore fruit. When the simple image of a straight line was placed between the image dissector and a carbon arc lamp, it showed up clearly on the receiver in another room. His first tele-electronic image was transmitted on a glass slide in his S[an] F[rancisco] lab at 202 Green Street. The New York World’s Fair showcased the television in April 1939, and soon afterward, the first televisions went on sale to the public. I guess you could say this is the early origin of operation Mind Crime/Control, courtesy of a Mormon, but it was not his fault as noted below.

Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. He made the critical contributions to electronic television that made possible all the video in the world today. He is best known for his 1927 invention of the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the image dissector, as well as the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system. Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera—which he produced commercially through the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation from 1938 to 1951, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.


J. Willard Marriott Digital Library



The Boy Who Invented Television: A Story of Inspiration, Persistence and Quiet Passion (Amazon link)

Farnsworth hoped to usher in the “high-energy era” with fusion, as a minuscule amount could power a whole city without the pollution of fossil fuels. Pem stated that Farnsworth’s fusion idea “gained solidarity early in 1947,” when a mutual friend set up a phone call between him and Albert Einstein. After discussing scientific theories for about an hour, Pem recalled “Phil reappeared, his face aglow from the excitement of finding someone who understood what he was talking about.”

After self-imposed isolation, he moved to Provo, Utah with Fort Wayne employees to pursue fusion away from ITT’s influence. In 1966, he established Philo T. Farnsworth Associates and collaborated with Brigham Young University on sustaining fusion. Eventually, Farnsworth’s health failed and he cancelled the fusion project. According to Schatzkin, family members suspected he carried the secret of fusion to his grave out of concern that humanity was not spiritually prepared for it.

Farnsworth was reportedly disgusted with television programming for its failure to facilitate his noble goals of exchanging cultures and educating viewers. Pem stated that while watching the 1969 moon landing Farnsworth professed “this has made it all worthwhile.” Ironically, Farnsworth himself appeared only once on the medium he invented on the program I’ve Got a Secret. Farnsworth passed away March 11, 1971 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Philo T. Farnsworth kept a plaque on his desk that read “MEN AND TREES DIE—IDEAS LIVE ON FOR THE AGES.” Farnsworth’s life serves as a testament to this. Schatzkin eloquently summarized his contributions, stating “There are only a few noble spirits like Philo T. Farnsworth . . . who can alter the course of history without commanding great armies.”

Philo T. Farnsworth: Conversing with Einstein & Achieving Fusion in Fort Wayne

W.W Hansen died young from beryllium poisoning. He was a pioneering man whose contribution to RADAR are immeasurable. Also he made this sleek looking X-box in 1937. Rumba anyone?

Just before meeting the Varian Brother's, at Stanford, W.W. Hansen's first microwave cavity oscillator was named "Rhumbatron", presumably because of the back and forth travel of waves inside them. Nothing quite like a Cuban rumba party in a box!


The klystron was combined with the Rhumbatron and one other very special device from yet another wonder child...Philo Farnsworth.

Rhumbatron - 60's super-8 animation showing the workings of a cavity resonator, meant for generating microwave radiation...



Philo invented the multipactor, inspired by a spark of genius while working on the family farm grain fields. Russell Varian worked for Philo just prior to their time at Stanford.



Klystron


Philo Farnsworth aka Dr. X on "I've Got A Secret" (1957) He worked on the Manhattan Project and at time of his death in 1971, he held 300 patents.




GE created RCA with Marconi's patent infringement of Tesla. Something they had been hard at work on for quite awhile. Thanks to JP Morgan's obsession with controlling energy and radio. David Sarnoff, CEO of RCA was also behind stealing the work of Philo T. Farnsworth.

David Sarnoff is a man worthy of a closer scrutiny. Radio and TV were literally hijacked by this man... here's a real Russian Freemason worth looking into.


He died 9 months & one day after Philo T. Farnsworth in 1971.

In 1999, computer scientist David P. Reed coined Sarnoff's Law, which states that "the value of a network grows in proportion to the number of viewers." Sarnoff's Law, Metcalfe's Law and Reed's Law are frequently used in tandem in discussions of the value of networks. See Weapon of Math Destruction.

The very first attempt at creating their microwave amplifier was with Farnsworth's Mulitipactor Tube. Eric Dollard lived with the Farnsworths for a short period of time as well. He's been a great contributor to knowledge.


Eric P. Dollard - Official Homepage


How Orwellian...


Why are so many books listed as “Borrow Unavailable” at the Internet Archive

It also looks like they pulled about every version of Aldous Huxley’s "Brave New World" too. Also the "The Giver", "The Handmaids Tale" - over 500,000 books have been removed.