@Piratenpartij Gek, he. Dat het zo werkt. Ik vrees dat de overheid langzaam aan te snel en te veel mensen bedonderd. Waardoor iedereen in aanraking is gekomen met iets wat niet klopt. Hierdoor zullen we vrees ik een onhoudbare situatie krijgen met meer katten in het nauw en rare sprongen.
In 1827, Michael Faraday told him to patent it. 🇬🇧
He refused.
He thought the invention should belong to mankind. 🙏
His name was John Walker. An Englishman from Stockton-on-Tees.
He had just invented the friction match. 🔥
Before him, fire was flint and steel. Tinder and patience. Every morning, in every home.
After him, fire was one strike. ✨
Faraday personally travelled to Stockton and urged Walker to patent the design. Walker said no. He believed the invention should belong to mankind. 🙏🇬🇧
Others took the idea. They patented their own versions. They called them Lucifers. 😤
By 1830, Walker had stopped making matches. He had been out-competed by the men who took what he gave freely.
He returned to being a chemist. He never asked for the fame his invention had won.
He never married. He lived with his niece in Stockton. He died on the 1st of May 1859, aged 78. 🕊️
The credit only came after his death.
He had given the world its instant flame. He had given it freely. He had asked for nothing. 🔥🙏
He was an Englishman who gave the world its instant flame.
And he is one of many. 🇬🇧
Britain has given the world much. Most of it without a patent. Most of it without a fee. 🙏🇬🇧
Help us give our history to them too. 👇🙏
👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
Het is inmiddels zo onrustig in Loosdrecht dat zelfs de struiken bij het gemeentehuis spontaan asiel hebben aangevraagd nadat er vuurwerk richting het pand werd gegooid.
De burgemeester spreekt van ‘zorgelijke spanningen’, terwijl buurtbewoners zich vooral afvragen hoe een gemeentehuis ineens verandert in een combinatie van opvanglocatie, buurtbijeenkomst en oudjaarsavond.
2 years ago, Joost Klein with Europapa was disqualified from Eurovision.
It was the EuroPatriot song, banned by incompetent leaders which are ruining Eurovision.
The whole organisation needs a reset. Eurovision needs to become a European event again, promoting our unity!
Fenomenale reportage uit 1974 van Chriet Titulaer over de Astronomische Nederlandse Satelliet in de Fokker-fabriek.
De ANS was de eerste satelliet die volledig computergestuurd zijn werk deed en kan worden beschouwd als een succesvol Nederlands ruimtevaartexperiment.
Ook schilder Elias Pieter van Bommel liet zich rond 1870–1873 inspireren door deze stadspoort, wat resulteerde in dit schilderij van de Koornmarktspoort. 3/3