https://vanishingpointwiki.com/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Wabbit24&feedformat=atom 2024-05-02T03:04:51Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.39.2 https://vanishingpointwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Mural&diff=2907 2007-01-21T05:31:17Z

<p>Wabbit24: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Mural.png]]<br /> [[Image:Vanishbox3puz11.PNG]]<br /> [[Image:Vanishbox3puz11(2).PNG]]<br /> [[Image:Vanishbox3puz11(3).PNG]]<br /> <br /> &lt;spoiler&gt;<br /> Hint: &quot;People and dates with lasting effect.&quot;<br /> <br /> The initials on the mural corespond to the names of the inventors:<br /> <br /> EW = Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin 1794<br /> <br /> HD = Humphrey Davy - Demonstrated electric lamp to the Royal Society - 1806<br /> <br /> JW = John Whitehurst - Pulsation Engine (hydraulic pump) - 1722 other possible answer James Watt - Improved steam engine - 1763<br /> <br /> BF = Benjamin Franklin - Pointed light rod conductor - 1752<br /> <br /> GLL = George Louis Lesage - Used a single wire system to telegraph a message - 1774<br /> <br /> LP = Louis pasteur - Process of sterilizing milk - 1862<br /> <br /> GS - George Stephenson - Locomotive - 1814<br /> <br /> GM = Guglielmo Marconi - Radio - 1901<br /> <br /> AGB = Alexander Graham Bell - Phonophone - 1880<br /> <br /> CM = Cyrus McCormick - Inventor the Reaper - 1809<br /> <br /> TE = Thomas Edison - Invented phonograph - 1877<br /> <br /> NOTE: The icons that go with the initials are all the same except for GS and AGB which have an identical icon.<br /> <br /> shouldn't GS be George Stephenson - 1814 or 1825 - since the image is of the steam locomotive? - Rainaer<br /> <br /> angelushack: answer: triton<br /> <br /> wabbit24: The San Francisco picture shows 3 items above the same starburst(?) pattern: A locomotive (invented by George Stevenson/GS), a telephone (invented by Alexander Graham Bell/AGB); both represented in the mural. The only one not represented is the statue of Poseidon, who's son is TRITON.<br /> &lt;/spoiler&gt;</div>

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