List of examples from this site

List of examples for demonstrations and explanations of its historical value. List includes examples of historical interest and those of technological interest, that is, something the wiki is accomplishing.

• Variant spellings! Charles Bartlett Thomas‎ -- Resolved puzzles and newly discovered puzzles ; found multiple spellings of this person's name ; South Carolinian ; found information in ancestry.com about him ; multiple patents but not yet one in the U.S. ; are the patents the same idea, or different ideas? See also Emile Ande Dandrieux, apparently a simple misspelling in the original ; include Category: Names with multiple official spellings -- helpful for historical disambiguation
• we include many marginally related patents, e.g. in FR 6.3 but not about aircraft ; out of the focused time frame ; by an aeronautical inventor but not about aeronautics and aviation
• Octave Chanute -- well-connected inventor with many letters in automatically generated list ; also several important designs and patents
• Chanute, 1891, Aerial navigation -- detailed description of an article reflecting the hot topics (i.e. big problems) at this moment in aeronautics history
• Patent GB-1897-15221 -- Chanute and Herring's triplane with an engine
• Patent GB-1866-1571 -- Wenham's multiplane idea with commentary from secondary sources including Chanute
• Patent GB-1897-3608 -- showing Lanchester's foresight in airplane design
• Patent US-1909-922709 -- Aircraft-to-ground communication system, using exhaust bursts or flashes to signal in Morse code
• CPC B64C11/00 -- patent category with rich information including a list of patents in this category
• International Commission for Scientific Aeronautics -- Influential international group sharing data and technology for ballooning and meteorology; significant articles on each of their meetings 1808–1909
• ballon-sonde -- article on a technology type (much beloved of the above-linked international scientific aeronauts)
• Inventor naming conventions: Francis Herbert Wenham, Horatio Frederick Phillips -- best to use their middle names? This is how they appear on at least some patents but perhaps not most commonly in print.
• Minimal entry on a book -- Ader, 1907, La Première Étape de l'aviation militaire française -- for discussion on style/conventions: title in French vs. English? with accent marks? should there be a template? is there an appropriate subcategory within "Publications" for books contemporary with our period?
• Another minimal and expandable entry on a book: Marck, 2009, Passionnés de l'air
• Tables information: Special:CargoTables and Tables design
• good explanation of a citation to INPI.fr: Patent FR-1863-61333
• example of shortcut to Wikipédia (using W:fr: prefix): Gabriel de La Landelle
  • linking to Wiktionary using w:wikt: (in-text examples: w:wikt:aileron; w:wikt:aileron#French )
  • linking to Wikisource using w:wikisource: followed by full page name with slashes; example from Francesco Lana:
    • "[[w:wikisource:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Francesco Lana|Francesco Lana]]" → "Francesco Lana" ;
    • pp. [[w:wikisource:Page:Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 8.djvu/854|772]]–773) → pp. 772–773.
    • [[w:s:]] also works; e.g. w:s:Rolls, Charles Stewart (DNB12)
    • French wikisource, [[w:fr:s:]]: e.g. w:fr:s:Projet de construction d’un grand ballon captif à vapeur par M. Henry Giffard
• Glossary
• Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky -- transliterate or no?
• Cabot, 1896, Screw Propulsion by Foot-Power -- interesting example of something which isn't a patent but may function like one in the noosphere
• Icon automatically drawn from Wikimedia Commons: Turcat-Méry
• Reports of patents by Russians or Norwegians
• Patent US-1913-1049521 -- see discussion of diagrams
• USPC 244/100 -- Landing gear category, with rich detail on subcategories
• Patent US-1897-582718
• British and Colonial Aeroplane Co.
• old examples from EMWCon presentation
• Alfred Wunderlich - shows that information from several original documents and countries helps identify his location, nationality, and profession. Thus record-linking here is a win for putting any kind of biography together, although we still don't have much.
• Bulletin Officiel de la propriété industrielle & commerciale -- BOPI -- an important set of sources which can be discussed on-wiki as a source with its own history and guidlines
• Some things are in SQL with forms and templates ; others are just categories for now ; it's dynamic, and formalization can increase over time as earlier type stabilize, then queries become more extensive: Inventing_Aviation_main_page
• note Category:Books
• add info on proposed Wikidata effort on patents
• see also Category:Charts
• see also Quick demonstration of this site
• query/chart work: draw from [1] and [2]
• history of Maurice Mallet shows three contributors, and pix, and the page links back to en.wp
• Data discrepancies: while not a gross error, the discrepancy in classification between Patent GB-1909-7209 and Patent FR-1908-395756 is clear, since the British patent derives entirely from the French (and was declared legally to do so) yet the two patents have no overlapping classifications. Probably the French patent should also have the classification CPC B64C3/38; probably it was missed because it describes several discrete technologies. (How should we tag?)
  • Newly discovered British classification system immediately (deployed provisionally pending further discussion) quickly yields a new error type, mal-indexing: see Patent GB-1893-4589.
• Patent family with two parents: Patent AT-1913-59404 + Patent AT-1913-59461 = Patent FR-1912-436529, Patent IN-1912-4, and several others
  • (a third Austrian patent Patent AT-1913-63290 is reflected in a French cert d'addition, Patent FR-1912-436529.16745, which consequently embodies two or three different modes of 'supplementarity')
• Convoluted "supplementary" relationships in a patent family, possibly demonstrating that the formal filing of one patent as supplementary to another does not imply a predictable conceptual relationship, even for the same patent filed in two countries: Patent DE-1908-246147