Africa history made (Marejeo)

𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗘𝗦 𝗦. 𝗟𝗘𝗪𝗜𝗦 𝗕𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗥 (1859–1926)

An American inventor, who patented the friction heater. Baker was born into slavery on August 3, 1859, in Savannah, Missouri. His mother, Betsy Mackay, died when he was three months old, leaving him to be brought up by the wife of his owner, Sallie Mackay, and his father, Abraham Baker. He was the youngest of five children, Susie, Peter, Annie, and Ellen, all of whom were freed after the Civil War. Baker later received an education at Franklin College. His father was employed as an express agent, and once Baker turned fifteen, he became his assistant. Baker worked with wagons and linchpins, which sparked an interest in mechanical sciences. friction heater friction heater
Baker worked over the span of decades on his product, attempting several different forms of friction, including rubbing two bricks together mechanically, as well as using various types of metals. After twenty-three years, the invention was perfected in the form of two metal cylinders, one inside of the other, with a spinning core in the center made of wood, that produced the friction. Baker started a business with several other men to manufacture the heater. The Friction Heat & Boiler Company was established in 1904, in St. Joseph, with Baker on the board of directors. The company worked up to 136,000 dollars in capital, equal to nearly 6 million dollars in 2022.

During his patent application, Baker stated that the friction heat could be produced with any mode of power like wind, water and gasoline.

His device, according to him, was set to be the cheapest source of heat production at the time which made him win accolades such as ‘King of Clean Energy and ‘St. Joseph Negro Inventor.’ friction heater

“Mr. Baker claims that the particular mode of power used in creating the friction is not essential. It may be wind, water, gasoline, or any other source of energy.

“The most difficult part of the inventor’s assertions to prove is that his system will light or heat a house at about half the cost of methods now in use,” The Draftsman 1908.

After years of trials, his device was near-perfect at the time it was invented. Baker’s device was made up of two metal cylinders, with one inserted into the other. A wooden spinning core was put in the center to produce the friction.

Any notable newsreels hailed his invention. “On March 27, 1904, the New York Times’ edition identified Baker’s invention as a “Clever Negro Invention”. Other newspapers such as Daily Gazette and News-Press also published his story in 1904 indicating that his invention would “revolutionize the then heating systems.”

Baker then created a factory called The Friction Heat and Boiler Company in 1904 in St. Joseph with him as the head of board of directors.

His company employed 50 skilled and unskilled labour to produce more radiators and had about $136,000 in capital stocks.

At the time, Baker’s capital stock was a lot of money which made him an affluent and honorable man in his hometown. His loyalty to his employees made his business thrive albeit racial prejudice which sometimes posed as a threat to his finances, his business flourished.

Baker was the youngest of five children and got married in 1880 at age 21 to Carrie Carriger and they had a daughter, Lulu Belle Baker. On May 5, 1926, he died in his daughter’s home in St. Joseph.

Baker d.ied of pneumonia on May 5, 1926, in St. Joseph, Missouri.

📸 Photograph showing inventor Charles S.L Baker and his assistant demonstrating heating/radiator system.

Mummy of Queen Nodjmet, Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 1069-945 BC Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Spectacular state of conservation.

Now you know how Black Egypt was.

Michael the Driver…
Michael usually drove himself to Kingdom Hall and his field-service routes. He’d finally gotten his driver’s license in 1981, at the age of twenty-three. Initially he didn’t want to learn to drive.
“I’ll just get a chauffeur when I want to go out,” he said when I began nagging him about getting his license.
“But suppose you’re someplace and your chauffeur gets sick?” I reasoned.
Finally, he relented and took some lessons. After he began driving, Michael decided that he enjoyed being behind the wheel, after all. The first time he took me for a ride, he ventured up to Mulholland Drive, a winding road in the Hollywood Hills. It was a hair-raising experience.
“I’ve got a crook in my neck and my feet hurt,” LaToya, who was also in the car, complained afterward. “I was putting on the brakes’ with my feet and ‘steering’ the car with my neck trying to keep it on the road. I was so scared!”
It was white-knuckle time for me, too. Michael drove fast. He also had the same habit that I have: driving right up to the car in front and stopping on a dime. After that, Michael started going out by himself.
“You shouldn’t go out alone,” I told him. “Get Bill Bray to go with you.”
But Michael wouldn’t hear of it. “I’m tired of having security with me every time I go someplace.”
When he began driving, Michael told me that he would never go on freeways; he thought they were too dangerous. So I was shocked one day when Michael suddenly drove us onto a freeway ramp.
“Wait a minute, Michael, what are you doing?”
“I can drive the freeways now!” he said, laughing. He had changed his mind about freeways when he saw just how long it took him to get around Los Angeles without using them.
Michael’s first car was a Mercedes. Then he bought a black Rolls-Royce, which he later painted blue.
It was in the Rolls that he was stopped one day -- not for fans outside the gate, but by a Van Nuys policeman.
“This looks like a stolen car,” the officer said. He didn’t recognise Michael, who wasn’t wearing a disguise that day. Michael explained politely that he did, indeed, own the car. But the officer went ahead and ran a check on the car, and found that Michael had a ticket outstanding.
The next thing Michael knew, he was sitting in the Van Nuys jail. Bill Bray bailed him out. I didn’t even know what had happened until he came home.
“You should have asked the officer what a stolen car looks like,” I said after he related his adventure. Perhaps the cop had felt that a young black man didn’t belong behind the wheel of a Rolls.
But Michael was not only put out by the experience, he professed to be happy.
“I got to see how it felt to be in jail!” he exclaimed.
From Katherine Jackson's book "My Family"

HIMAYA KUU YA ZAMANI YA BENIN Ufalme wa Benin ulikuwa mji wa zamani uliostawi katika Nigeria ya kisasa. Wakati wa enzi ya kabla ya ukoloni, Benin ilikuwa mojawapo ya tamaduni nyingi zilizoendelea sana barani Afrika. Ufalme huu ulianza karibu 900 CE wakati watu wa Edo waliishi katika msitu wa mvua wa kitropiki wa Afrika Magharibi. Kuta za Jiji la Benin na ufalme wake unaozunguka zilikuwa nguzo kubwa zaidi za dunia zilizofanywa kabla ya enzi ya mitambo, na ziliangaziwa katika Kitabu cha Rekodi ya Neno. Jiji la Benin pia lilikuwa moja ya miji ya kwanza kuwa na mfano wa taa za barabarani. Taa kubwa za chuma, urefu wa futi nyingi, zilijengwa na kuwekwa kuzunguka jiji, hasa karibu na jumba la mfalme. Wakichochewa na mafuta ya mawese, tambi zao zinazowaka ziliwashwa usiku ili kutoa mwanga kwa trafiki kuelekea na kutoka kwenye jumba hilo. Wakati Wareno walipotembelea jiji hilo kwa mara ya kwanza mnamo 1485, walipigwa na butwaa kupata ufalme huu mkubwa uliojengwa na mamia ya miji na vijiji vilivyounganishwa, wakiuita "Mji Mkuu wa Benin".

Umri wa miaka 146 Kongo... [emoji50][emoji44]

Mwafrika mzee zaidi anayeishi, jina lake ni Aubabe moroo, Mkongo aliyezaliwa mwaka 1877 huko OMUNDATSI, jimbo la Ituri. Sasa ana umri wa miaka 146 duniani. Anaishi katika kijiji cha Nderi, Ituri.

Mystery foils

Bonde la Wafalme na makaburi muhimu zaidi ya kifalme yanayopatikana katika picha
Bonde la Wafalme si tu korido ya miamba inayoangaziwa na jua kali bali chini ya kila sehemu ya nchi yake kuna makaburi 63 ya watawala muhimu zaidi wa Misri ya kale,
Bonde. la Wafalme lilitumika kama chumba cha kuzikia kwa karibu miaka 500 kutoka karne ya 16 hadi 11 KK na lilitumika kama kaburi la kifalme la Wafalme na familia zao na mali zao,

Mnamo 1979 likawa eneo la urithi wa ulimwengu pamoja na maeneo mengine. ya makaburi mazuri na kila mtu angeweza kuchunguza Bonde la Wafalme

Michael Jackson and Donna Summer 7th American Music Awards 1980

MJ 1977

Happy 73rd Birthday to Billy Ocean aka Leslie Sebastian Charles, MBE

Born Jan. 21, 1950, He is a Trinidad and Tobago born, British recording artist who had a string of R&B international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British R&B singer-songwriter of the early to mid-1980s.

His 1985 hit "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" reached No. 1 in the UK and No. 2 in the US. In 1985, Ocean won the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his worldwide hit "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)" and in 1987 was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist.

His 1988 hit "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" reached No. 1 in the US and No. 3 in the UK. His 1986 hit "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" also reached No. 1 in the US.

Mummy of Queen Nodjmet, Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 1069-945 BC Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Spectacular state of conservation.

Now you know how Black Egypt was.

"We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it." ~ Amilcar Cabral

Life-size statues of sumo wrestlers, made by Yasumuto Kamehachi in 1890. Wood with pigment, glass eyes, human hair and textile. Meiji period, now on display at the Contemporary Art Museum in Kumamoto city, Japan

Crinoid Fossils can be found in some UK rivers and were once thought to be fairy coins. Sometimes called ‘Star Stones’.

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