Phonoliszt-Violina: In the 1900 to 1930's the automatic music machine replaced live performers accelerated by Union pressures for uneconomic rates for performers. Many types of player pianos, orchestras (usually using organ pipes imitating wind and string instruments) grew rapidly as an early musical media for playing popular and classical tunes in restaurants, bars, skating rinks and more.

By 1910 the most difficult challenge had been mastered – the automatic violin player with real violins, called the Phonoliszt-Violina was created by the Hupfeld company. It plays with almost human-like expression with a wide range of music.

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1899 roll-operated musical instruments; player piano; coin-operated machines; invention of automatic music machines; perforated roll music; pneumatic mechanisms; Engelhardt automatic piano; Alfred Dolge; Dolgeville Roth and Engelhardt; Peerless Style 44 piano; St. Johnsville factory; Harmonist; Peerless Arcadian; Peerless Wisteria; Automatic Music Company; Seybold Reed-pipe Organ co.; National Music Roll Company; nickelodeons

1898 roll-operated musical instruments; player piano; coin-operated machines; invention of automatic music machines; perforated roll music; pneumatic mechanisms; King of Slot Machines; John McTammany; C.B. Kendall automatic picked-string instruments; American Automusic Company. Coin-slot machines; pneumatic banjo picking; W.H. Gilman; electrically operated stringed musical instrument; American Automatic Banjo Company; W. Scott O’Conner Auto-Manufacturing Company; Holtzer-Cabot motors;

1930’s Alden Scott Boyer created Chicago Coin Club and the Chicago Coin Device Museum; first coin-op machines museum; roll-operated musical instruments; player piano; coin-operated machines; perforated roll music; pneumatic mechanisms; collecting coin-op machines; Svoboda’s Nickelodeon Tavern

1905 first record-changing multi-selection phonograph invented by John Gabel; His Automatic Machine and Tool Company competed with Victor coin operated phonograph; early competitive tactics; coin op jukebox; automatic talking machine; automatic acoustic disc phonograph; automatic needle changer;

Caille coin-op machines; player pianos; coin-operated gambling; trade stimulators; Automatic Chime Bells; Toledo Orchestrion; Berliner Multiphone; music boxes;

1915 mechanical orchestra with banjo; popularized coon songs; helped make ragtime a national music form; made by Engelhardt Piano Company; music by National Music Roll Co. roll-operated musical instruments; player piano; coin-operated machines; invention of automatic music machines; National Electric Piano Company; Peerless Model F; Connorized Music Co.; Seybold Pianos; nickelodeon; America’s most wanted music collectible

1899 roll-operated mechanical stringed instrument in the form of a harp; Invented by J. W. Whitlock (also famous racing Hoosier Boy speedboat) of Rising Sun, Indiana; Marketed by Wurlitzer; operates like player piano; music machines; coin-operated machines; automatic music perforated roll music; pneumatic mechanisms; electric harp; coin-op music; Popper

1910 German made mechanical orchestra shipped through newly opened Panama Canal to Nevada city, California to play in a gold rush saloon owned by Ernie Schreiber; Popper Felix orchestrion coin op music; paper roll-operated orchestra; European automatic music machine; classical music machine; nickel-a-tune music; perforated roll-operated orchestra

Coin-operated musical instruments; Gay 90’s America; coin-op nickelodeon Encore Automatic Banjo; Mills Novelty Company slot machines; Violano Virtuoso automatic violin player; scuba underwater photography; Wildflower photography.

James Ritty invention of the cash register 1878; Incorruptible Cashier; Cash Recording Machine first cash register; National Cash Register Company (NCR) founded by John Patterson, history of marketing; selling through the eye; antitrust competition; antitrust lawsuit; Kruse Cash Register first total adder; Thomas Watson Sr.fired from NCR, founded IBM from International Time Recording Company, Computer-Tabulating-Recording; THINK placard; Rick Crandall and Sam Robins authors.

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Invention of the bath scale, doctor's scale, beam scale; 91 years from 1919 to today's electronic scale measuring height, weight and computing BMI and transmitting to electronic medical records (EMR's) compliant with "meaningful use" requirements of Obamacare. Story of corporate rise, decline and rise again – resilience of a market-leading brand: Health o meter.

The 1890's: Pioneering risk-takers defined by the California Gold Rush; battle-tested by the 1906 earthquake; Charlie Fey invents the Liberty Bell slot machine creating an industry that persists to this day.

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Starting in Fairplay, a Colorado western town that is a museum of old cowboy town buildings; summiting Mt. Democrat, Mt. Cameron, Mt. Lincoln & Mt. Bross in one day with Emme the Australian Terrier who climbs mountains;
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Pyramid Peak near Aspen, one of the most challenging fourteeners with its narrow ledges, Leap of Faith, Class 4 Green Wall and the impressive Amphitheater; climbed during fall aspen colors with climbing expert Andy Mishmash.

Starting in Ouray, a Colorado classic western town in the San Juan Range; Hiking, climbing one of the most picturesque of Colorado’s peaks over 14,000’ altitude.

Wetterhorn notches up in difficulty the fourteener adventures. This climb was done with the leadership of Andy Mishmash, a friend and highly accomplished Class 5++ ice and rock climber.

Mt. Lindsey is one of the new Class of climbs we're doing – loose, steep gullies and playing roulette with the weather.

Little Bear Peak – standard route judged to be the most difficult standard route of all Colorado fourteeners, and I learned why. Accessible up the worst road in Colorado. We ran into a bear raid and a snowstorm to boot – a multiple adventure.

Sunlight Peak is great rock climbing fun and in the most beautiful Range in Colorado. It is accessed from Chicago Basin which is accessed by a 7 mile backpack after riding an historic narrow-gauge train ride and jumping off between Durango and Silverton.

Longs Peak is one of the most aggressive Class 3 mountains featuring named pitches starting at the "keyhole." The "ledges", "the trough," "the narrows," and "homestretch."

There are 54 mountains in Colorado with summits over 14,000 feet in elevation (only 13 others in California and Mt. Rainier in Washington).  They are ranked in five classes of difficulty, Class 1 being a walkup, Class 3 being hand-over-hand climbing and Class 5 is technical – experts using climbing equipment.

Each mountain has a personality, each with its own beauty and challenges.
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The Galapagos’ remote islands of Wolf and Darwin has some of the most exciting “big fish” diving with Galapagos Sharks, Orcas, Sea Lions, hundreds of Hammerhead sharks and the biggest fish in the ocean – the Whale Shark.

Giga Information Group; technology advisory; separation of Chairman and CEO; non-executive chairman; independent chairman; Board governance; Board of Directors organization

Combine work, fitness, active lifestyle in mountain setting, Aspen, Colorado

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Nat Crandall in the historic 45th (Thunderbird) Division landing at Anzio Beach; following Patton across France; crossing the Siegfried Line; Bronze star heroics; fighting the German
Winter Elite troops, Dachau liberation – and the saving of Holocaust Torah Scrolls: restoring and Putting them back into service 51 years later.