All’s Well That Mends Well

Bring Them Your Torn Jeans, Your Broken Jewelry, Your Malfunctioning Appliances Yearning to Work Again

EYES TO THE SKY July 11 – 24, 2016

All of humanity triumphed last week, on July 4, 2016, when Juno, a spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on August 5, 2011, crossed the boundary of planet Jupiter’s formidable magnetic field and slipped into orbit around the great gas planet. The probe traveled 540 million miles at the fastest speed ever achieved by a...
An artist's conception of Juno performing a 35-minute-long engine firing to enter orbit around Jupiter. NASA / JPL

July 8

951 – Paris is founded 1693 – The City of New York authorizes the first police uniforms in American colonies 1836 – HMS Beagle carrying Charles Darwin, the respected naturalist and geologist, reaches Saint Helena for six days as his last stop before returning to Great Britain 1845 – Fire in Lower Manhattan destroys 345...
Industrial designer Raymond Loewy standing on one of his designs, the Pennsylvania Railroad's S1 steam locomotive

Rowing The Atlantic

Special greeting to Pato, Industrimetall AS, Svelvikveien, Drammen. I meant to write for a while as I am very pleased with the steel bar you made across the bow rowing position. The ropes from it on both side give me extra security, makes it easy to hang up clothes to dry and I can tie...
Dr. Stein Hoff began his row across the Atlantic on Sunday morning May 15th, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen.

Crimp My Ride

The stretch of the Esplanade between North Cove Marina and Brookfield Place went from velodrome to mellowdrome last weekend, as the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) instituted a dismount zone for cyclists at what has become a chokepoint, where pedestrians and pedalers have competed for space. The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has erected signs...

Generation 4 Meets Manhattan

Atlantic Sail arrived in New York harbor yesterday morning and proceeded up the Hudson to pose for a picture or two off the World Trade Center before doing a 180 degree turn and heading through the Kill Van Kull to Newark Bay to conduct some import/export business. Atlantic Sail is one of Atlantic Container Line’s (ACL) two...
The Atlantic Sail arrived in New York on July 6. Differing from other container ships, this vessel has a castle-like buffer around a grid-lock system that holds the containers in place

July 7

1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death. The court declared her innocent on this date in 1456. 1534 – Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada. 1798 – As a result of the XYZ Affair, the U.S. Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with...
On her maiden voyage to the UK, the SS United States broke the transatlantic speed record with an average speed of 35.59 knots (40.96 mph). She also broke the westbound crossing record with an average speed of 34.51 knots (39.71 mph)