588 research outputs found

    Designing 21st Century Standard Ware: The Cultural Heritage of Leach and the Potential Applications of Digital Technologies

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    This practice-based research investigates the potential applications of digital manufacturing technologies in the design and production of hand-made tableware at the Leach Pottery. The methodology for the research establishes an approach grounded in my previous experience as a maker that is informed by an open, experimental, emergent, and responsive framework based on Naturalistic Inquiry. A critical contextual review describes the cultural heritage of Leach which, for the purposes of the research, is developed through the Leach Pottery as a significant site, the historical production of the iconic Leach Standard Ware and the contemporary production of Leach Tableware. This is followed by an examination of Potter’s Tools in the Leach production environment, and a review of makers’ digital ceramic practice. The contextual review is followed by an explication of ‘standards’ presented through visual lineages of Standard Ware and Leach Tableware to define ‘standard’ at a design (macro) level, followed by an examination of how ‘standard’ operates at a making (micro level) level. This chapter presents new knowledge in relation to defining the visual field of Leach Pottery tableware production and its standards of design. A chapter focussed on practice presents the outcomes and analysis of my engagement with digital manufacturing technologies which resulted in the development of new tools to support Leach Tableware production and the interrogation of Leach forms, in different mediums, which led to the creation of Digital-Analogue Leach forms. The practice culminated in the design and development of new 21st century Standard Ware: a range of 9 forms, called Echo of Leach, that were developed by myself using digital and analogue methods: the designs were realised by myself, the Leach Studio, and a further four makers. The outcomes of the research were presented in a three month exhibition at the Leach Pottery in 2013. The conclusions of the research draw on the key points raised in the analysis of the practice and relate these to the approaches to making pottery that are highlighted in the cultural heritage of Leach in the contextual review. These are also discussed in relation to ways in which these findings could be taken forward into development of knowledge about Standard Ware, especially in a broader studio pottery context

    A Fast Ten Channel Infrared Spectrometer

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    Author Institution: The Franklin InstitutePresentations without an abstract printed in the proceedings do not have an abstract (image or text) in the Knowledge Bank record

    Dr. Henry Goddard Leach Visits Spanish Class

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    Dr. Henry Goddard Leach, author and speaker, stands looking over students in the Spanish Class at Jacksonville State College. Shown from left are Helen Smith, Dora Miranda, Dr. Leach, and Jacques Corman. (circa March 14, 1954)https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/2974/thumbnail.jp

    Behaviour of buried pipelines subjected to external loading.

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    The research presented in this Thesis was carried out at the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Dr I. C. Pyrah and Dr W. F. Anderson, and Mr G. Leach at British Gas Engineering Research Station (ERS). The research was financially supported by a British Gas Research Scholarship and by the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme. The Author would like to express his sincere gratitude to his supervisors for their invaluable help, guidance and encouragement during the development of the research. The Author is also grateful to Dr S. R. Mi for his interest and assistance throughout the research. Special thanks also go to Dr S. J. Wheeler for his supervision during the first year of the research and sound advice in the initial stage of the work. The Author would like to express his gratitude to all members of the geotechnics group at the University of Sheffield for the useful discussions and comments. Special thanks and appreciation are extended to the staff at the ERS, particularly Mr E. Middleton for providing the data of the field tests and constructive comments. The laboratory tests were performed at ERS Soils Laboratory for which the Author is thankful to the laboratory staff. The Author must also thank British Gas for providing the computer hardware and software for performing the numerical analyses, and the printing facilities to produce the Thesis. Thanks also go to Mr D. Reay and Mr B. Bellwood at the Gas Research Centre of British Gas for ensuring continuous financial support throughout the award period. Finally, the Author wishes to thank his family and friends for their endless support and encouragement throughout the period of study in the UK. Without them, this Thesis may never have been completed

    [Photograph 2012.201.B0368.0215]

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    Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "EYES SHIELDED from glare, Dr. Franklin R. Leach, Oklahoma State University biochemist, uses a cabinet model Geiger counter to follow radioactive tracers in special cell cultures.

    Effects of P-fluorophenyla.Lanine on Ms2 Replication

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    Chemistry (Biochemistry
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