[pure-silver] Re: Speaking Of Graflex
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 13:42:20 -0700
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From: "Kurt J. Griffin" <kjg@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 1:37 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Speaking Of Graflex
Guessing: they both previously were selling bicycles.
--Kurt in SnowDak
At 12:30 -0700 3/15/14, Richard Knoppow wrote:
A trivia quiz: in what way was Graflex and the Wright
brothers similar?
The prize is a firm handclasp offered electronically.
You got it. The Wright brothers sold and made bicycles
during the bicycle craze and used the business to finance
their experiments with aircraft. Graflex began as Folmer &
Schwing. Initially they made gas lighting fixtures. The
bicycle craze began about the time New York city began to be
electrified so they move into selling and making bicycles.
Light weight cameras became popular for bicycle touring, in
fact they were called cycle cameras, so F&S began selling
them and eventually making their own. When the bicycle craze
settled down F&S decided to drop them and continued in the
camera business. Eventually they were bought out by George
Eastman and moved to Rochester where they stayed after Kodak
was forced to divest them. Sometime about the end of WW-2
the name was changed to Graflex Corp. So, get out your
Folmer & Schwing or Wright brothers bicycles.
Here is your handclasp )X(
--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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