Talk:Umbrella/to do

His earliest Folding Umbrellas were made from lightweight, strong, solid-Duralumin-Rods (instead of the present Cheap-Thin-U-Shaped-Metal). (Duralumin for the metal-ribs, shaft and Handle). They would NOT blow-inside-out. The Queen had two of those early umbrellas which Joan and I quickly made in our spare bedroom, - after quickly inventing and building the necessary machines to fashion the Duralumin-Rods into Umbrella-Ribs. We had a 'Thank-You' letter from Buckingham Palace. I feel that people all over the world, who use our umbrella invention (now made from weak-materials), should none-the-less thank Pythagoras and Archimedes for their ancient equations. Our government, and Civil-Servants collectively forced all the jobs, wages,profits and every penny from that world-wide-patent, abroad to other countries. After sitting on the Governments cold doorstep at 5-30 am we did not make one penny profit from all our work on that Umbrella! Most of our other (over 6,000 inventions) suffered the same identical pressure despite decades of letters the Politicians. At one stage, we had to have four lots of accountant. solicitors and barristers to defend our money-innocence, against 'career-mad' Civil-Servants! At this date, I am still waiting for a 'war-wounding-pension' from wounds that have affected me every day, since the D-Day war!
 * A description of construction
 * How Folding Umbrellas Work - And - Were Made In A bedroom!. Written by Alan Harold Carncross, who invented the World-wide, Small-Folding-Umbrella - so that it might fit into a ladies-handbag. I invented it during my conscripted D-Day-Normandy' 'Wounding-war-service'. Because he had studied Science and Physics, he used 'Archimedes and Pythagoras Equations for the mechanism - which he learnt at elementary school, at Sharneyford near Bacup, Lancashire.


 * Materials
 * Dimensions
 * Types (telescopic, walking-stick type, golf umbrellas etc.)
 * Did umbrellas ever not fold up?