Template:Did you know nominations/Mark Barr


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The result was: promoted by Gatoclass (talk) 06:51, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Mark Barr

 * ... that erection engineer Mark Barr credited bicycles with stimulating ball development, had a business making rubbers, and was elected to the Screw Committee?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Buck Run (West Branch Brandywine Creek)
 * Comment: For April 1

5x expanded by David Eppstein (talk), Dicklyon (talk), and EEng (talk). Nominated by EEng (talk) at 03:03, 22 March 2017 (UTC).


 * I'm reviewing this. Drmies (talk) 03:57, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * We are honored, your Arbship.  E Eng  04:06, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Don't be so hasty, EEng; I'll do my best to torpedo this phallic setup. Help an old guy out: I cannot find where he credits the bicycle industry. Drmies (talk) 04:19, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 2nd sentence of "Other inventions and discoveries". —David Eppstein (talk) 04:20, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * David Eppstein, I mean in the typography book. That's a font I can't adjust. Drmies (talk) 04:25, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * It's not in the typography book, it's in Barr's 1896 paper (the source credited in the text of that sentence). —David Eppstein (talk) 04:35, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Right, I just found it--you guys forgot to put the footnote to that 1896 article in the text, so I wasted half an hour and my eyes poring over the typography book. Stick it in there and I'll pass it. Drmies (talk) 04:37, 22 March 2017 (UTC)


 * , surely you're not suggesting I'd go off half-cocked?
 * Barr credits the bicycle industry for stimulating development of the perfectly spherical steel balls needed in this application.
 * Barr was a participant in a business venture to make synthetic rubber from turpentine by a bacterial process.
 * Beginning in 1902, he was elected to the Small Screw Gauge Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
 * He was educated in London, then worked for the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh from 1887 to 1890 as a "draughtsman, laboratory assistant and erection engineer
 *  E Eng  04:33, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Don't be silly, EEng, and go and stick that footnote in. I've already read the whole thing and every single online source. Drmies (talk) 04:38, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry, Your Arbship – it was an . I didn't notice the later bit about the missing cite. All's well that ends well.  E Eng  04:50, 22 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Symbol confirmed.svg New enough, shiny enough, long enough, hard enough. Sources check out, no plagiarism that I can find, etc. Drmies (talk) 04:40, 22 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Sorry,, but can you re-tick for this alt?
 * ALT1 ... that erection engineer Mark Barr had a business making rubbers, said that bicycles stimulated ball development, and was elected to the Screw Committee?
 *  E Eng  04:53, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg *Can I go to bed now? Drmies (talk) 05:06, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * By all means let's go to bed.  E  Eng  05:33, 22 March 2017 (UTC)