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Letter dated 25 August 1969 from Lorenzo A. Richards to Rupert G. Ledger; Letter dated 18 August 1969 from Rupert G. Ledger to Lorenzo A. Richards
No full textTwo letters of August 1969 between Lorenzo A. Richards and Rupert G. Ledger of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England: (1) Letter dated 25 August 1969 from Lorenzo A. Richards to Rupert G. Ledger, responding to Ledger\u27s letter; (2) Letter dated 18 August 1969 from Rupert G. Ledger to Lorenzo A. Richards, inquiring about the manufacture of a ceramic moisture tester that Richards was developing25 August 1969 Dear Eupert - It was good to get your letter of 18 August 1969 and to learn that you have recently lien in touch with Eileen and Charles, and that they have some pleasant recollection of their recent visit to America. We certainly enjoyed having them here and feared we may have kept them so busy that they were somewhat worn out by the time they were able to get back home. Zilla and I oertainly give Audrey a high rating as a Mother and she and Paul seem to be getting along well in Berkeley, Should your travels connected with the enterprise bring you to the vicinity of Los Angeles, certainly we would be most pleased to have you visit us. fhis can be done conveniently now since at Ontarios California, there is a growing airport where flints connect with other points of the world including Los Angslesf and this airport in Ontario is only about 20 miles trcm us. fhis cuts down on commuting problems for both travelers and travelees, I am pleased that Charles was sufficiently impressed with ay soil moisture projects to have reported some of the things to you. Actually I am not sure to what extent these projects serve* namely to keep a retire® out of mischief. I am sure they bring some relief to Zilla by keeping me out from under foot somewhat. An inventor, as you must know, must always be optimistic in order to exist. I am glad we never know how long it takes to develop a product to a useful stage because otherwise we would never attempt the process. Given a little more good luck and progress on an electronics control circuit, it is possible that I way have some marketable things before long. They will be proof fired first as an accessory on ©lock type sprinkler irrigation controllers, of which there are numerous manufacturers doing an extensive business in this country, and that field will be an easy first one to exploit for reactions to ay efforts. 1 am sure it will be at least another year before we will have much information from this direction, but I shall be happy to keep you inf ormed and to let you know how things art going so as to guide you in your thinking about thes® products. The salts brochure you sent on TWBJgB. is very impressive, and I wish you success in the promotion of this item. Certainly us homos are in desperate struggle with the insects for survival and this is likely to continue for some time. A devio® like you describe would be most worthwhile. Z±17k and I have no Immediate plans for another trip across the Atlantic, but I should not be surprised if we were to show up there "before to many years. W® certainly enjoyed our visit to Cornwall at the tiffi® of the wedding in 196$, and have always enjoyed our trips to England, in the past. Zilla joints a® in sending our very best wishes* Sincerely* L. A. Richards Rupert Ledger & Co. Ltd. Our Ref. Your Ref RGL/MG Prof, L. A. Richards, P.O. Box k2k, Riverside« California, 92502, U.S.A. Dear Professor Richards, Before dwelling on the more mundane side of this letter I should preface what I have to say by extolling the arrival of your grand-daughter. Since then, of course, Eileen and Charles have been over to see you all and we have therefore been thoroughly regaled with details of the glad tidings and the latest news of the Richards\u27 family - both generations. 1 was just about to arrange to come to Los Angeles when the American I was coming to see decided to visit the "off shore islands" and my trip was therefore cancelled. Otherwise, I would have flown from Los Angeles to San Francisco to see Paul and Audrey. At the same time I would have planned to come and see you but as destiny has altered, my course slightly, I am writing to you instead. When I had the pleasure of seeing you in England you were telling me that you were perfecting a ceramic moisture tester which when put in the soil would control irrigation according to the moisture content of the ground itself. Eileen, on her return from San Francisco, was telling me that you are either still working on it or have just about finished it. I am therefore writing to ask if you would consider our own Organisation for the manufacturing or marketing or both of this apparently brilliant device for our "neck of the woods." Let me be more precise. One of our Companies, Turbair Sprayers Ltd., has developed a range of agricultural spraying machines based on rotary atomisation which are unique. This is a"very interesting project and we spent something like #25Q.°00 on design, development etc. (small sums by American standards i ) before we got the project underway. By applying the principle of rotary atomisation we produce a comparatively even droDlet spectrum - sufficiently even, compared by orthodox methods - that we are able to use between 2%% and 3% of the chemicals normally used. AIRFIELD ESTATE • WHITE WALTHAM MAIDENHEAD . BERKSHIRE TELEPHONE: LITTLEWICK GREEN yyr 331*1 CABLE ADDRESS : LEDGER MAIDENHEAD 18th August 1969 Directors: R. G. LEDGER, A. BOOTH, M. K. MANLY, J.H.P GRIFFITH, A.C.A. Prof. L. A. Richards -2- 18th August, 1969. However, the large chemical companies were not interested in a system, the application of which would reduce their own profitability I We therefore wandered in the wilderness for some time and it was not until we introduced the idea of "ready-to-use pre-packed chemicals" thus doing for the farmer what the aerosol had done for the housewife, that we managed to get this project underway. You will appreciate that by the production of "pre-packed, ready-to-use chemicals" the chemical companies would make more profit than previously - not less. Shell initially backed the project, where a very brilliant Dutchman, who was Managing Director of Monteshell, saw the possibilities. However, Shell are an oil company, chemicals are a bi-product. Following the Shell support we started to work with CIBA and to-day CIBA have joined forces with Geigy, to make the biggest international chemical manufacturing company in the world. CIBA are now backing the Turbair project completely and taking us all over the world. CIBA Have very big interests in the Far East, the Middle East and generally in the under-developed territories. This is, of course, quite apart from all the other countries in the world - apart from the U.S.A. We are at the moment planning a world-wide exercise in conjunction with CIBA, who incidentally claim to have increased rice production in East Pakistan by as much as 30% I It therefore would seem to me that provided you are willing, we could play a useful part in the marketing of your ceramic soil device. To give you some idea as to what the Turbair programme is all about, I am enclosing a leaflet which summarises the background and advantages of the Turbair system. We produced for CIBA a small battery operated electrical machine specially for the under-developed territories, the price of which was #7.00 I CIBA purchased 100,000 of these and we are now looking at quantities ten times as large. If in a combined project with CIBA, we could not only deal with the application of chemicals*but could also come in with controlled irrigation, we would have, to use an American expression, a real "break through." Furthermore I am quite certain that CIBA themselves would be interested in such a project. I am saying all this of course, not knowing to what extent your own plans have matured or whether you would be interested in discussing the project with us. I am a very great friend of Roy Hay, the gardening editor of "The Times" and through his good services we recently appeared on B.B.C. television. We will also be appearing on television in France and Germany, thanks to Roy Hay, at a later date. We had already appeared on Yugoslav television. Thanks to Roy Hay, we could certainly get any irrigation controlling device such as yours put on to B.B.C. television in this country and on the television circuits of many other countries of the world. This, of course, is the sort of publicity required in the initial stages. To give you a little explanation about our own activities I should explain that eight years ago I resigned my Directorships of Companies in a large Group, for reasons with which I will not bore you. Suffice to say, that whilst I was a "paper" Director, I had none of the eqiiity and following a large take-over I did not see eye to eye with the policies of the new Organisation. I took the only course that my temperament would accept - Prof. L. A. Richards -3- , 18th August, 19&9. I resigned and started on my own. To-day we have four Companies operating and whilst none of them are particularly large and at times in the past we wondered how we were going to pay the rent, nevertheless, we are expanding and building up our own small empire. Our activities take us to most parts of the world, although Europe is our chief hunting ground. We hav^ very strong associations in Malaysia, Thailand, Japan and the Middle East. We also have associations in most parts of the Africa and in particular in South Africa. In Australasia we have excellent connections both in Australia and New Zealand. I think I have said enough in this letter to give you a brief survey of our ideas with regard to your invention and would be most interested to know whether you would be willing to entrust us with the marketing arrangements of your ceramic irrigation control device. I look forward to hearing from you. Please give our very kindest regards to your wife. Kindest regards, Yours sincerely, I Ruoert G. Ledge
'Ballances in Ledger G-'
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/239277Lists names, folio numbers and amounts.129593
Sub-Item: [1980.0075.04294] "'Ballances in Ledger G-'
DiLeNA: Distributed ledger network analyzer
No full textThis paper describes the Distributed Ledger Network Analyzer (DiLeNA), a new software tool for the analysis of the transactions network recorded in Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs). The set of transactions in a DLT forms a complex network. Studying its characteristics and peculiarities is of paramount importance, in order to understand how users interact in the distributed ledger system. The tool design and implementation is introduced and some results are provided. In particular, the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains, i.e. the most famous and used DLTs at the time of writing, have been analyzed and compared
Acupuncture and herbal medicine in IVF: a review of the evidence for clinical practice
No full textThe objectives of this systematic review were to determine the effectiveness of (a) acupuncture and (b) Chinese herbal medicine on the treatment of male and female subfertility by assisted reproductive technologies (ART). All reports from RCTs of acupuncture and/or Chinese herbal medicine in ART were obtained via searches through The Cochrane Menstrual Disorders and Sub-fertility Group's Specialised Register of controlled trials, and other major databases. The outcome measures were determined prior to starting the search, and comprised: live birth rate, ongoing pregnancy rate, clinical pregnancy rate, the incidence of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome and multiple pregnancy, miscarriage rate and adverse effects arising from treatment. Overall, 14 trials (a total of 2670 subjects) were included in the meta-analysis. The results provided no evidence of benefit in the use of acupuncture during assisted conception. Further studies should attempt to explore the potential placebo, as well as treatment, effects of this complimentary therapy. Essential elements for a quality RCT will be the size of the trial, the use of a standardised acupuncture method and of placebo needles
Smither Grocery Ledger, page 574
No full textA page detailing the accounts of Duncan G. Campbell, and Dewitt le Sandall
Ledger.
No full textPatent for improvements in ledgers by giving each column in a ledger sheet a “label” such as customer’s name, daily entry, daily balance, monthly balance and etc… to record daily and monthly transactions of an individual customer's account. Illustration is included
My pastoral record: the life ministry of Harold G. Hageman
No full textPastor Harold G. Hageman (1921-1992) ledger of funerals, baptisms and marriages in various cities in New Jersey
Letter to Edward Harris from G. Thompson, 28 September 1859
No full textG. Thompson writes to Edward Harris from North Conway, New Hampshire regarding balancing ledger accounts.A separate envelope included with this letter was not digitized
Bibliographie Hilarion G. Petzold 1958 – 2009 mit Anhang als Einführung
No full textDieses Archiv enthält die Gesamtbibliographie der Werke des Autors nebst einiger Texte „Über H. G. Petzold“ im Schlussteil der Bibliographie sowie einen Anhang mit einer Einführung in die Architektur des Werkes in seinem wissenslogischen Aufbau als Ausarbeitung seines „Tree of Science Modells“ (2007).This archive contains the complete bibliography of the author and some texts about H. G. Petzold, moreover an epilogue with an introduction to the architecture of the works in its epistemological structure and composition and as an elaborations of Petzold’s „Tree of Science Modell (2007).https://www.fpi-publikation.de/polyloge/01-2009-petzold-h-g-gesamtbibliographie-h-g-petzold-1958-2009-updating-november2009/peerReviewedpublishedVersio
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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