Erik Selvig, Foster’s partner, and he looks to the scientist many times for insight not only into deep matters, but also for his knowledge of the world. Unfortunately, the two part ways eventually. Whenever Thor is away from Earth, he counts the minutes until he returns to Jane Foster’s side. These traits impress Thor from the moment he meets the young scientist, and their admiration for each other quickly grows into love. On Earth, Jane Foster is a warrior in her own right, a woman who stands up for what she believes in and never backs down no matter how big a challenge she faces. They take pride in the fact that they always had each other’s backs in a fight, until the Warriors Three perish during Hela’s siege on Asgard. Likewise, both Sif and the Warriors Three (Volstagg, Fandral, and Hogun) are valued comrades of Thor, battling at his side over the years. Thor treasures his friendship with Heimdall, and they often fight back to back against those who threaten their home. Heimdall, all-seeing keeper of the Bifrost Bridge, offers Thor advice and counsel whenever he requests it, and many times when he does not. Thor grows up surrounded by warriors and fighters, and it is among that august group that he can count the majority of his close companions. Thanos earns Thor’s immense hatred after the tyrant’s crusade wipes out many Asgardians and kills loved ones of the god of thunder, making things very personal for him. Thor also finds himself imprisoned for a time on Sakaar by the Grandmaster. And it seems Thor’s belief in his is redeemed when Loki gives his life to protect Thor from Thanos-leaving Thor to deeply mourn his brother’s loss.Īmong Thor’s more clear-cut enemies stand Frost Giant King Laufey, Surtur the Fire Giant, the dark elf Malekith, and Thor’s own half-sister Hela, the so-called goddess of death, all of whom have ill intent towards Asgard. Still Thor, overcoming multiple betrayals, believes the man he calls brother can change and embrace the light. Loki’s scheming nature and unbridled egoism comes between him and Thor many times over, causing trouble that has literally impacted entire worlds. The relationship between Thor and Loki may rightfully be categorized as “complicated.” Raised as brothers, the two men know each other better than anyone, yet have been continually at odds, sometimes to notably extreme degrees. Thor develops a number of adversaries in his quest to protect Asgard, and also Midgard, from harm. With the help of Eitri, a Dwarven smithy of Nidavellir, and an adolescent Groot, Thor crafts Stormbreaker, an immense axe with some of the same properties as his hammer, along with the ability to open the Bifrost. While Thor is with the Avengers on Earth, his comrades all try to handle the hammer, but only Captain America could move it slightly, a feat that its owner takes notice of.Īfter Mjolnir’s destruction by Hela, Thor forges a new weapon when the threat of Thanos arises. Odin even places an enchantment on it when he banishes Thor to Midgard, one that would only allow a “worthy” person to lift it and possess the power of the god of thunder. The incredible hammer was forged by Odin from the heart of a dying star and gifted to his son for his exclusive use. Back on Earth, Thor sacrificed himself to save the town from destruction and in doing so, impressed Odin enough to restore him to full Asgardian power.įor nearly a thousand years Thor holds Mjolnir’s grip in battle, a true companion if ever there was one. While his brother struggled with the limitations of mortals on Earth, Loki worked to ensure his own seizure of the Asgardian throne and planned to allow the Frost Giant king-his real father-into Asgard to slay Odin in his sleep. He manipulated Thor into attacking the Frost Giants, legendary adversaries of the Asgardians and Loki’s people, and Odin-hoping to teach his son humility-divested Thor of his magic hammer Mjolnir and banished him to Midgard, the realm also known as Earth.Īlone and unable to return to Asgard, Thor met scientists Jane Foster and Erik Selvig in the midst of their investigation into strange activity near a small New Mexico town. But, his adoptive brother Loki schemed in private to ensure that day never arrived. Thought to be rash and even reckless by his father, Thor nevertheless looked forward to the day of his ascension to the throne. Born 1500 years ago to Odin and Frigga, the king and queen of fabled Asgard, Thor grew into a mighty warrior and protector of his home and people.
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A command and control system - sometimes called a communication, command and control system - that includes data links and other system elements (e.g., instruments and transponders on satellites and/or terrestrial cable networks) that connect the remote pilot station(s) to the RPA.īelow are links to other glossaries and explanations of terms related to RPAS:.Human-operated remote pilot station(s) usually located on the ground or on a ship, but which may be aboard another airborne platform.In practical terms, a small RPAS can be visualized as having these configurable elements and characteristics: Unmanned aircraft system - ICAO defines this term in ICAO Cir 328 as “An aircraft and its associated elements, which are operated with no pilot on board.”.They can be remotely and fully controlled from another place (ground, another aircraft, space) or pre-programmed to conduct its flight without intervention.” Unmanned aircraft (UA) - ICAO explains this term on The ICAO UAS Toolkit website as “Any aircraft intended to be flown without a pilot on board is an unmanned aircraft.Remotely-piloted aircraft system (RPAS) - ICAO defines this term in ICAO Cir 328 as “A set of configurable elements consisting of a remotely-piloted aircraft, its associated remote pilot station(s), the required command and control links and any other system elements as may be required, at any point during flight operation.”. (Note: This is a subcategory of unmanned aircraft.)” Remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) - ICAO defines this term in ICAO Cir 328, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, as “An aircraft where the flying pilot is not on board the aircraft.real-time piloting control is provided by a licensed remote pilot.”.expected to be integrated into the air traffic management system equally as manned aircraft.Remotely piloted aircraft (RPA)- ICAO explains this term in Annex 2, Rules of the Air, as: “An unmanned aircraft which is piloted from a remote pilot station:.… This is challenging for sUAS operations due to insufficient mishap (accident and incident) reporting for sUAS and the rapid growth of new sUAS applications (or use cases) that have not yet been implemented.” Definitions research team said in 2017: “Associated with the proliferation of civil applications for sUAS is a paradigm shift from single-UAS visual operations in restricted airspace to multi-UAS beyond visual line of sight operations with increasing use of autonomous systems and operations under increasing levels of urban development and airspace usage. One “snapshot” of such priorities by a U.S. Priorities change over time among these stakeholders. Therefore, improving safety performance of larger RPAS temporarily may receive lower priority among these stakeholders. Their mature level of integration into controlled, uncontrolled and restricted airspace at any altitude means that accidents involving large RPAs rarely affect national airspace systems. In contrast, the larger RPASs - whether operated by/for government research, military/intelligence or corporate missions - share similar histories, levels of advancement and strong track records in safety. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)) air navigation service providers ( ANSPs, including EUROCONTROL) airlines RPAS manufacturers and suppliers and small RPAS operators. The stakeholders primarily comprise the world’s national aviation authorities (NAAs, including the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the U.S. Most of the information in SKYbrary pertains to small RPAS because many civilian aviation industry stakeholders are involved in the integration of small RPAS or drones - unlike larger RPAS - into national airspace systems any may have some responsibility for addressing small-RPAS operational safety issues likely to impact manned aviation. The term drone serves as an informal, popular and generic substitute for an RPA or a UA. This article introduces several enhancements to SKYbrary’s compilation of articles and source references that primarily discuss remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPA/RPAS), a subset of the broader term unmanned aircraft system (UA/UAS) favored by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). The film overall does look nice on the format but there are definitely some noticeable imperfections as well. However, does the video quality help spotlight the excellent cinematography? I would say the Blu-ray video quality is decent, but unspectacular. Visually, Anaconda is impressive due to shooting on location in Brazil. Ultimately, the film is just a mediocre release that is watchable, but not particularly exciting, memorable, or entertaining to riff on. On the other hand, Anaconda also didn’t deserve the six Razzie Awards it was nominated for. There are so many more riffable films out there than this. There are some campy performances and cheesy moments but at least in my opinion, they are too few and far between to make Anaconda a top choice for riffing. Many people consider Anaconda to be one of those “so bad, it’s good” B-movies. Why else would you cast a well-known voice actor? Unfortunately, Welker only provides sound effects for the snake, which is the biggest disappointment this film provides (at least in my book). Based on this, I thought the snake was going to talk which would up the cheesiness factor significantly. One thing that really disappointed me was the cast list inclusion of Scooby-Doo voice actor Frank Welker as the anaconda. The death scenes are all pretty repetitive though, with many of them feeling almost identical to each other. The special effects aren’t awful (for 1997 at least) but they certainly aren’t anything to write home about. The plot is dull, contrived, and even though the film’s run time is only 89 minutes, it still somehow manages to feel slightly too long. The characters are boring with no real distinguishing features that make them any different than stock characters (outside of Voight’s character of course). Unfortunately, other than those two elements the rest of Anaconda is average or even below average. Between Voight’s campy performance and the excellent cinematography, that’s the start of a great movie. For the armchair explorers out there, Anaconda almost feels like you are actually floating down the Amazon River in search of unexplored terrain. The film was actually partially shot in Brazil and it shows. The other major thing Anaconda has going for it is the cinematography and scenery. One of the reasons he stands out so much is that despite the well-known actors in this film, none of their characters are very interesting, making a campy, cheesy villain like him stand out even more. He’s always been known as an over the top actor and he really chews the scenery in Anaconda. The psychotic character he plays in this film is absolutely perfect for him. Despite a poor reception from critics, Anaconda would go on to be a box office success which has since spawned four sequels and crossovers.īy far the main highlight of Anaconda is the campy performance of Jon Voight. These stars include Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Owen Wilson, and Danny Trejo (in the opening scene only). Anaconda features several well-known actors in some of their earlier roles. Little do they know but the snake hunter is on the hunt for a giant anaconda and that he will do anything to steer the crew in the direction of his snake (even putting the crew in severe danger to do so). While sailing down the river, they come across and help a stranded snake hunter (Jon Voight), who happens to know where the tribe is located. Anaconda is watchable both as an actual film and a B-movie, but it certainly wouldn’t be one of my first choices for either.Īnaconda is sort of a mix of an adventure film and a creature feature and focuses on a documentary film crew as they head down the Amazon River to try to interview an indigenous and uncontacted tribe known as the Shirishamas. Outside of the performance of one actor, some cheesy special effects, and a few funny moments though, I felt it came up a bit short on the B-movie side of things. Ultimately though, I actually found Anaconda to be a better film than I was expecting it to be (though still slightly below average). While I had never seen Anaconda before I received it on Blu-ray for review, you likely know that I am always on the hunt for hilariously bad B-movies to watch and this film appeared to check all of the boxes for potential riffing greatness. While the reviews for Anaconda on Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB are quite harsh, the film has gotten a bit of a cult following from B-movie fans. of academic interest but not of practical advantage". His ideas were considered by the Admiralty, but rejected along with Kerr's proposals as being "freak methods of painting ships. Seeing the opportunity to put his theory into service, Thayer wrote to Churchill in February 1915, proposing to camouflage submarines by countershading them like fish such as mackerel, and advocating painting ships white to make them invisible. The American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer had developed a theory of camouflage based on countershading and disruptive coloration, which he had published in the controversial 1909 book Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom. It had made up its mind, and all Kerr's subsequent letters achieved nothing. Whether through this mixing of goals, or the Admiralty's skepticism about "any theory based upon the analogy of animals", the Admiralty claimed in July 1915 to have conducted "various trials" and decided to paint its ships in monotone grey, not adopting any of Kerr's suggestions. Kerr was thus hoping to achieve both a measure of invisibility and a degree of confusion for the enemy using a rangefinder. Similarly, he advised painting shaded parts of the ship white, and brightly lit parts in grey, again with smooth grading between them, making shapes and structures invisible. For example, he proposed painting ships' guns grey on top, grading to white below, so the guns would disappear against a grey background. However, in the same letter, Kerr also called for countershading, the use of paint to obliterate self-shading and thus to flatten out the appearance of solid, recognisable shapes. Hiding these would make ships less conspicuous, and would "greatly increase the difficulty of accurate range finding". Taking up the zebra example, Kerr proposed that the vertical lines of ships' masts be disrupted with irregular white bands. The target's masts are especially useful for rangefinding, so Kerr proposed disrupting these with white bands. Eyepiece image of a warship in a naval rangefinder, image halves not yet adjusted for range. Kerr compared the effect to that created by the patterns on a series of land animals, the giraffe, zebra and jaguar. The British zoologist John Graham Kerr proposed the application of camouflage to British warships in the First World War, outlining what he believed to be the applicable principle, disruptive camouflage, in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1914 explaining the goal was to confuse, not to conceal, by disrupting a ship's outline. The approach was developed after Allied navies were unable to develop effective means to hide ships in all weather conditions. Intended purposes Depiction of how Norman Wilkinson intended dazzle camouflage to cause the enemy to take up poor firing positions Īt first glance, dazzle seems an unlikely form of camouflage, drawing attention to the ship rather than hiding it. Arthur Lismer similarly painted a series of dazzle ship canvases. Edward Wadsworth, who supervised the camouflaging of over 2,000 ships during the First World War, painted a series of canvases of dazzle ships after the war, based on his wartime work. Experiments were carried out on aircraft in both World Wars with little success.ĭazzle attracted the notice of artists such as Picasso, who claimed that Cubists like himself had invented it. So many factors were involved that it was impossible to determine which were important, and whether any of the colour schemes were effective. The result was that a profusion of dazzle schemes was tried, and the evidence for their success was, at best, mixed. Each ship's dazzle pattern was unique to avoid making classes of ships instantly recognisable to the enemy. ĭazzle was adopted by the Admiralty in the UK, and then by the United States Navy. Norman Wilkinson explained in 1919 that he had intended dazzle primarily to mislead the enemy about a ship's course and so cause them to take up a poor firing position. Unlike other forms of camouflage, the intention of dazzle is not to conceal but to make it difficult to estimate a target's range, speed, and heading. Credited to the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a rejected prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, it consisted of complex patterns of geometric shapes in contrasting colours interrupting and intersecting each other. USS West Mahomet in dazzle camouflage, 1918ĭazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. For the OMD album, see Dazzle Ships (album). Growth rate: Fast can grow more than 3 feet each year. Large, pyramidal shape perfect as privacy trees or windbreaks.Eastern white pine Photo Credit: Famartin / CC BY-SA 4.0 Skip cherry laurels need full sun, but can also withstand partial shade. Matures at height of 10 to 18 feet and width of 5 to 7 feet.īest place to plant: With its short, compact, dense foliage, this small tree works well as a privacy screen for a backyard garden. Growth rate: Moderate to fast-growing can add 2 to 3 feet of height per year. Thrives in a variety of soil conditions.Groups of three to five are perfect for privacy and windbreaks just be sure to space trees 8 to 12 feet apart. A smaller version of the Southern magnolia, the “little gem” magnolia adds less than a foot of height each year.īest place to plant: For added curb appeal, plant in the front yard along property lines. Adds beauty with white flowers and pleasing scent.Tolerant of salt, pollution, drought, and some flooding.“Little gem” magnolia Photo Credit: Michael Rivera / CC BY-SA 4.0 Grows 1 to 1.5 feet each growing season and matures at a height of 30- to 40-feet tall.īest place to plant: This tree is perfect as a privacy screen along roadways, driveways, and sidewalks, and it grows well in a wide variety of well-drained soils. Pyramidal with dense foliage works well for privacy.Resistant to drought extreme heat, cold, and wind.Be sure to plant it in a location sheltered from wind. Matures at a height of up to 40 feet.īest place to plant: This privacy tree works well in the front yard, and it can shield the front of your house from view. The pyramidal shape helps with screening.Grows in full sun, full shade, or partial shade.Space 10 to 15 feet apart to hinder disease spread. This evergreen conifer can grow 3 to 4 feet per year, maturing at a height of 60 to 70 feet and a width of 15 to 25 feet.īest place to plant: The Leyland cypress requires full sun and works well in your front yard as a border along property lines. Adds beauty with its scaly, dark green leaves.Thrives in a variety of well-drained soils.Dense foliage and pyramidal shape makes a good windbreak.Leyland cypress Photo Credit: W.Baumgartner / CC BY-SA 3.0 Plant in spots that get full sun or partial shade. At maturity, the Southern wax myrtle can be 15 to 25 feet high and 20 to 25 feet wide.īest place to plant: The wax myrtle’s green leaves and sweet smell help boost curb appeal for front yards. This broadleaf evergreen tree can grow 5 feet every year. Attracts wildlife with its blue-green berries.Southern wax myrtle Photo Credit: BotBln / CC BY-SA 3.0 Space trees 5 to 6 feet apart in a single row. USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6a through 9bīest place to plant: Establish these hollies alongside property lines in your front yard that receives full sun or partial shade. Nellie Stevens holly grows up to 3 feet each year until it reaches a mature height of 20- to 30-feet tall and 10- to 12-feet wide. Adds fall color with red berries and spring color with white flowers.Evergreen with dark green leaves all year long. Nellie Stevens holly Photo Credit: David J. Space trees 5 to 6 feet apart to account for spread of 10 to 20 feet. The “Green Giant” arborvitae, aka thuja green giant, can grow up to 3 feet each year until it reaches its mature height of 50 to 60 feet.īest place to plant: Because of how large this tree can grow, an area in your backyard that gets full sun and partial shade will be your best bet. Gives off pleasant smell when green leaves are squeezed.Low maintenance (pruning is rarely required).“Green Giant” arborvitae Photo Credit: David J. Not only do these trees act as natural screens that hide things from view, but they also help block noise pollution and wind.Įxperts suggest mixing varieties for the most optimal outcome, so to get you started, we’ve rounded up 15 of the best trees for privacy to plant in your yard. Create some much-needed privacy between the homes in your neighborhood - and any nearby commercial or high-traffic areas, too - with trees. They’re lovely people, really, but your neighbors don’t need to know everything that takes place on your side of the property line. 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Discover the latest additions to the user library, upload your creations, discuss new tips and tricks in the learning section, and be a part of a highly innovative and dedicated community of builders committed to advancing the future of sound. The REAKTOR community unites thousands of artists, sound designers, and instrument builders passionate about sound and instrument design at all skill levels. REAKTOR enables hybrid software/hardware instruments that are a true evolution in instrument design. Create your touch strip integration, custom displays, parameter mappings, light guide configurations, and more. With the REAKTOR API, you can design fully integrated performance setups. Ableton Link support lets you sync timing easily across instruments and devices, making collaborating with others a breeze.Ĭontrol REAKTOR directly from a KOMPLETE KONTROL keyboard or MASCHINE. MIDI, OSC, and CV/Gate connectivity lets you connect modular hardware systems, standalone hardware, other software instruments, and mobile devices. REAKTOR offers extensive options for connecting to other devices. REAKTOR includes BLOCKS BASE and BLOCKS PRIMES to kick-start your modular journey, and the Blocks ecosystem is expandable with releases from builders like Unfiltered Audio, Toy Box, Genki instruments, ACL, and Holonic Systems. You can patch them together to create new and unique modular synthesizers, effects chains, complex sequencers, and more. REAKTOR also provides a platform for modular synthesis in the form of Blocks – a range of sound-generating and sound-shaping modules. Everything inside is organized for immediate use in REAKTOR's macro libraries for fast, creative building sessions. Their relentless pursuit of DSP excellence keeps this sonic toolkit at the head of its class. 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Discover 70+ included instruments plus thousands of sounds in the User Library.Experiment with rack-style modular patching using Blocks.Build custom synths, samplers, effects, and sound design tools.Features of Native Instruments Reaktor for macOS With its API, you can design fully integrated performance setups. Control It directly from a KOMPLETE KONTROL keyboard or MASCHINE. Simply put, It lets you build instruments to replicate the sounds in your head in a way existing instruments can't. It's a sandbox for sound creation, a limitless platform for experimenting and diving into new sound directions. The beating heart gives life to synths like Native's RAZOR and MONARK and third-party releases from Twisted Tools, Tim Exile, Blinksonic, and many more. You can experiment with rack-style modular patching using Blocks. Build custom synths, samplers, effects, and sound design tools. This program is the ultimate creative toolkit for deep sound exploration, featuring cutting-edge DSP and high-fidelity sound. Overview of Native Instruments Reaktor for macOS It is the ultimate creative toolkit for sound exploration. Free Download Native Instruments Reaktor full version standalone offline installer for macOS. There are many a crystal grid kit available online where you’ll receive a board or mat with the geometric design printed on it, along with a range of crystals to use during your grid construction. For example, an individual seeking help with grief, having lost a loved one, would look for the geometric design associated with letting go or new beginnings. Sacred geometry exists under the belief that god, as you understand him/her, is the natural geometer of our world.īefore setting up a crystal grid, users are encouraged to source a sacred geometric design that either resonates with them or is linked to the intended outcome that the user is seeking. They are usually very symmetrical and might feature repetitive imagery or tessellated geometric shapes. If you’re new to sacred geometry, all you really need to know is that these are designs or patterns that have some sort of spiritual meaning associated with them. While not imperative, it helps to have a basic understanding of sacred geometry prior to setting up your first crystal healing grid. By creating a crystal grid you are simply enhancing the very real energies that occur between one rock and another.īecause crystals are such personal devices, a crystal grid is best created in the comfort of your own home: ideally somewhere where others won’t be able to interfere and/or touch the stones used in the set up. One thing that science can’t deny, however, is the existence of energy. How and why crystal grids work remains a metaphysical mystery: one that will continue to be ignored by science for the foreseeable future. In fact, their ability to use crystals for healing, labor, construction and even flight got so advanced that it became threatening to the well-being of the planet, and thus the city was destroyed before lasting damage could be done. This civilization is believed to have existed on Earth a very long time ago, and it is thought that the people of the land possessed knowledge of crystal powers that we no longer recall today. There is speculation that suggests that the very first grids were created in the ancient city of Atlantis. It seems that the knowledge of crystal grids comes naturally to any who work with the stones for a long period of time: knowledge that has been bounced around various societies in both the East and West. Crystal healing has been relevant in all corners of the globe for centuries, and the practice of grid construction doesn’t seem to be something that started in a single region and migrated with time. The exact origin of crystal grids is largely unknown. This layout, combined with the user’s genuine intention, is thought to amplify the properties of the stones quite significantly, bringing greater benefit to the user or more successful outcomes.īy laying out an array of stones in the shapes and patterns of universally recognized sacred geometry, a user is able to channel the essence of healing, protection, love and other properties into their everyday life. What is a crystal grid? A crystal grid involves the physical act of laying out one’s crystals in a pattern that is recognized in sacred metaphysics. In this article we discuss the following: These stones were likely not there at random, but rather had been specifically placed there under the guise of a sacred grid. You may, at some point or another, recall walking into an unfamiliar home or workspace and noticing a geometric congregation of crystals on display on a coffee table or shelf. In this post, we reveal everything you need to know about crystal grids, including how to create them, how to use them, and the best crystal grid templates. After you've drilled around once, move up an inch or two and continue drilling another revolution. Moving around the side, drill a hole every 4 inches. Starting from the bottom, drill a hole into the side of the basin using a 2 inch bit. If you need to perforate the basin yourself, the job isn't difficult. Basins need holes to allow the water to come in.
Rub with 0000 steel wool to burnish and remove any last pigment.When dry, rub off excess pigment with a slightly damp cloth.Mask off the nut, binding and anything you don't want to stain.Clean the wood with naphtha and sand to 600-grit.Unlike many black stains, Higgins ink is truly black-won't leave a bluish tint. It mixes well with other colorings to make dark tints and finishes darker. Higgins India Ink is non-toxic and non-flammable. Use it to darken new or old ebony fingerboards, bridges, tailpieces and peghead veneers on guitars, violins, mandolins and banjos. Wipe on, and wipe off the excess as needed. The composition of India ink made by Higgins (Faber-Castell, Lewisberg, Tenn. Higgins India Ink has become our favorite for making ebony uniformly black ("ebonizes" other woods, too). The days of harvesting uniformly black ebony wood are rapidly fading-most ebony today is streaked with brown and gray. Makes streaked ebony fingerboards and bridges uniformly black. Higgins India Ink is like ebony in a bottle! View All WOODSTAX - Shop Tonewood by the Piece.View All All Hardware + Parts by Instrument.Old ink bottles and their histories: Charles M. Higgins ink bottles Virginia City, Nevada. The original Higgins ink a Nevada invention: The story of R. Virginia City, Nevada Ink Bottles of R.L.Higgins. Even more updates are in store for the brand in 2020, including new lines of ink and a new look!ġ. Chartpak restored the branding to the original Higgins name in 2007. purchased the company from Sanford, who had converted the bottle to plastic and sold it under their Design line of art products. Since then, it has changed hands several times until Chartpak, Inc. Charles died in 1929, and his son Tracy took over the business. However, Charles' patented design has become the iconic shape and size ink bottle that has been used, with various revisions, into the 21st century. In 2001, one of the bottles sold at auction for $18,000. Higgins first used in Virginia City, Nevada are some of the rarest of ink bottles in the US. Charles also used artists' testimonials to promote his inks, creating a niche in the art world that would take his brand across the globe to be the most well-loved India ink of its time. The most popular periodicals of the day used Higgins Inks and recommended them to artists and others in the publishing industry. If Rufus was the first to sell Higgins ink, then it was Charles who patented and marketed the inks worldwide. No known supporting documentation exists, however, and so the timing and common surname linking the two Higgins inks remains coincidental. There is some speculation that the two Higgins ink men were related, and that Rufus had sold his formulas to Charles or worked with him to create the Higgins Ink Company. His inventions of the "American Indian ink" and the "Eternal Ink" were said to have happened while experimenting with dyes and inks at his sister's kitchen table. Charles would seek out usable inventor's ideas to patent. Charles Higgins was a patent solicitor in Brooklyn, New York, during the time Rufus was operating his businesses in Virginia City. It's curious that Higgins American Indian ink was launched in 1880 by Charles Higgins, shortly after Rufus left Virginia City. Records for Rufus seem to end with his bankruptcy and the loss of his business. He expanded his offering to include stationery and music items, which complemented his ink. Soon after, misfortune replaced success when his store burned down in the great Virginia City fire of 1875. In 1876 he left Virginia City never to be heard from again. As more people flocked to the Gold and Silver mines in Virginia City, Rufus' business boomed. He distributed his ink in the early 1870s through Pioneer Book Store, the only book store in the city. There are no known formulas or patents for his ink, but it did very well in the region. He established several general stores starting in 1863 and purchased a soda mine in 1868, all of which served the ever-growing mining community of the Comstock load. During this time, Rufus created one of the few inks produced in the west and sold it in the only known customized embossed ink bottles in Virginia City. Higgins was an entrepreneur in Virginia City, Nevada - the center of the Comstock gold mining boom of the 1850s - the 1880s. Higgins ink made its first appearance in the west during the gold rush era. Where did Higgins Ink come from, and who invented it? Two men who share equal credit for the existence of this world-famous ink. |
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