Project:Hot air flow

We could use this page as our general discussion platform; or we could be more formal and create a new page that's not connected with an article. We could also use Talk for the main page... Cheers LTA (talk) 14:06, 10 February 2021 (PST)

Internal server error

For multiple days running I get the "500 Internal Server Error" specifically trying to edit Daimler Motoren-Gesellschaft and Belgium; not other pages; no problems with new page creation, moving, etc. Is it something about the content of these pages? Can anyone else edit those pages specifically? LTA (talk) 14:30, 10 February 2021 (PST) Text of the message follows:

Internal Server Error

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Right now I'm working on some Hermann Hassenbach, but I've encountered the internal error in several contexts.

Oddly, Patent DK-1919-25941 seems slow to show up on page Walter George Tarrant, and likewise the patent doesn't come up in searches by that inventor name.

• This problem is persisting on the Daimler page. LTA (talk) 07:23, 14 February 2021 (PST)
• I just did a successful edit on Daimler Motoren-Gesellschaft User:AvionHerbert 18:18, 14 February 2012 (PST) An extremely minor edit test just failed on Belgium. Likewise I was unsuccessful adding a large, though non-link-containing, bit of text to my userpage
• This is still unresolved. I've tried some edits on Industrial property law, with and without some highly desirable source links.
  • My edits to Daimler also went through this time, for what it's worth. Belgium still not working. LTA (talk) 03:24, 17 February 2021 (PST)

Sometimes it takes a long time for a page to show up in reports, or its old name/format shows up for a while before the system catches up. I don't know how to speed that up. These are "background jobs" which sometimes run quickly and sometimes not.

And the Internal Server Error is bad. I get stuck there. You can sometimes store PART of the edit but not all. It comes and goes, meaning the same thing might store the next day. I don't know how to fix it yet. -- Meyer (talk) 14:40, 17 February 2021 (PST)

• I'm running into the Internal Server Error at Hungarian patent classifications ;

"|V |Vasutak, erőgépek |Railways, machinery ("Osztály V/h" is aero)"

-and-

"The "h", in our HU V/h, designates the aero subcategory. This is in the nature of the general idea that this system was also "based on the German". The "Főosztály" (category) is analogous to the German "Klasse". Each "Főosztály" is then subdivided into "Osztály" (class) designations analogous to the German "Gruppe". In the case of Hungary, we only have contemporary, to us, hearsay, regarding the system's being "based on the German", though we have empirical experience at finding data and viewing "Osztály V/h" on aero patents."

would be desired additions.

• I don't know what to do about the Internal Server Errors. I'll keep my eyes peeled. If one can keep the edit window open for a day or two, it sometimes goes away. Or if one reduces the number of changes, sometimes they can be saved, leaving fewer to do later. -- Econterms (talk) 17:56, 23 February 2021 (PST)

• I'm finding the issue as applied to Belgium, which is quite lengthy, and loaded with various types of links, internal and external. I was trying to apply the spectacular new Template:Patents by country. For my purposes I took the template, and started to "create" a page "X", used preview to see the data, and didn't save.
  • Argh. Feel free to save that other temporary page under any name, and link to it or just return to it at will. It is okay to create and reorganize. I will take on board and try to contact system operators to find out why this is happening.

Transfer of the discussion

Could we continue the conversation at to Project:Hot air flow? I want to move it out of regular mainspace/talkspace. -- Meyer (talk) 14:40, 17 February 2021 (PST) Okay -AH

Done! -- Econterms (talk) 17:55, 23 February 2021 (PST)

Wright Brothers

Should these boys have separate pages for some limited purposes? I took note of their being described of self-described as Industrialists, as sourced via Hungarian patents, then also added their birth and death dates, among other things, while I was at it. So the Wright Brothers show up as one person on the Industrialist occupation page, with 1969-12-31 showing up on that "person's" birth and death date. There are few other interest in non-compact report and so forth reasons why having them register as separate persons, for some purposes, might be handy. Each page could be strategically minimal and head with a friendly pointer to the shared page, en lieu of a simple redirect.

• Yes, definitely. -- Econterms (talk) 17:49, 10 June 2021 (PDT)

Aero as power source

Leaving a rough note here for further development and comment. Having found an early volume of the GB Abridgments which catalogues aero patents before the 1860s, I'm seeing descriptions of the earliest British patents classified under "aeronautics". A large fraction of them deal with the application of power derived from the air to other types of transportation—namely, carriages, boats, tracks. E.g. Patent GB-1852-155, Patent GB-1849-12452], Patent GB-1843-9642, Patent GB-1853-1088; & see keyword track.

It would seem appropriate to devise a keyword for this category of invention.

Additionally, it seems significant for a history of technology and innovation, that more inventors proportionately saw aero as a means to an already known end, before later seeing it as an end in itself. Cheers, LTA (talk) 10:46, 21 February 2021 (PST)

Power derived from the air -- by windmills? There seem to have been American patents for "wind wheels" (analogous "water wheels") as well as windmills. There may be a distinction between wind wheel and wind mill but I haven't noticed it. -- Econterms (talk) 17:54, 23 February 2021 (PST)

Not windmills, but power in the form of motion derived from properly aero flyers such as balloons and kites which pull something on a track or on the ground. These were common and indexed within aero categories. LTA (talk) 14:37, 3 March 2021 (PST)

Ah. Sounds interesting. I see a discussion in Neilson's book that he doesn't want to include all the Aeronautics patents - e.g., not balloons, and maybe these also. Maybe count them as .5-relevant for now?

Tentatively calling these aero-as-power. LTA (talk) 09:20, 8 June 2021 (PDT)

Tempates that link to pages in Brewer and Alexander (1893) and Neilson (1910) about old British patents

Newly improved templates will link right to our descriptions of older British aero patents in two books which are perfectly scanned at Internet Archive. This wiki code will unpack like the references below: {{BrewerAlexander|40|p40-41}}, {{Neilson1910|71|p71}}

• Brewer and Alexander, 1893, Aëronautics, p40-41
• Neilson, 1910, Aeroplane Patents, p71

LU patent was in family of HU patent?

User:AvionHerbert: I edited to assert that these two patents were in the same family based on your observation about their filing dates and titles. I don't *know* that they are, but it seemed more misleading in the data to assume they were NOT in the same family. Please edit further as seems best.

Patent family descending from Patent HU-1911-59226

• Patent HU-1911-59226 (English title: Reverberating device for the driving mechanism of vehicles with reciprocating shutter drives, Supplementary to patent: Patent HU-1909-48795 • Patent DE-1907-12-07 Vincent Wisniewski • Patent DE-1907-215602, National tech categories: HU V/h)
• Patent LU-1911-8830 (English title: Reverse gear for a drive device for airships, watercraft and the like, Supplementary to patent: Patent HU-1911-59226)

User:Econterms: I likewise assume they are related, and I love the funneling of data, later displayed. Varying classification system protocols and many other phenomena of international relations and analogues have jumped out by way of handling "supplementary to" and "family" most expansively, but I thought this is the basic "supplementary to" versus "cites these patents" point of differentiation. -User:AvionHerbert

Mexican patents

Great find. It seems the reason they don't display at first (and come into lists doubled) is the apostrophe before the asterix, right after the template, introducing the inventor location and sources. Was this deliberate for some reason? If not, deleting the apostrophe is a pretty easy fix. Meanwhile, find/replace seems unwilling to target the string "M�xico". Also, the date granted on many or all of these came in as 1905. LTA (talk) 04:53, 30 April 2021 (PDT)

• Yup. I tried to be careful but messed up a lot. And it made errors with an character with diacritics. I will try to clear out the extra apostrophes. -- Econterms (talk) 19:36, 1 May 2021 (PDT)
  • I'm bummed that we can't search-and-replace the strange character that came in. It can be done by hand, one by one. The strange character comes in because of some kind of dreamhost mistake and/or the Page Transfer extension. I know how to investigate when I work up the steam to do it. -- pbm

One standard patent report now includes Filing date

• I added Filing date to the kind of patent report that shows up on Thomas Sloper because he has a patent thicket and it helps to figure out parent-child relations. Maybe this would help on all patent reports? Now I'm thinking this is long overdue. But we could also create templates with short/simple patent reports. Comments welcome. -- pbm

• I think that would quite often be handy, and most particularly as applied to inventor pages. -- jrh

Categories for archives and/or repositories

• I'm thinking we can mark pages here about physical archives in Category: Archives, and online or electronic ones in Category: Repositories. Good? I'm inclined to use plural but I'm not sure what's best. But that helps us track places and sources. -- Econterms (talk) 18:13, 20 June 2021 (PDT)
• Would Category: Online repositories make the distinction relative to physical archives more explicit? Plural certainly.-JRH
  • Agreed. I've created them. Let's see if it does some good. There are MANY places, both online and physical, that have primary materials of interest. I guess databases with secondary information could be marked too, as "category: databases" or something. -- pbm
  • Regarding Category: Online repositories, in a few cases I'd like to create fairly brief pages, appropriately categorized, featuring external links along with succinct references to offices, modern or historical, with which they are associated, along with references to archival facilities which hold the actual physical documents.
  • Regarding Category: Archives, a key type of secondary information in the context of catalogues or "journals" as they call them at STIC, could be marked in various ways, with AGR 2 - Cuvelier for instance being great for primary documents as well as catalogues, but all Belgian, whereas STIC is greatly international in terms of catalogues, but holds no(?) patent originals. Perhaps highlighting as an emphasis on STIC, for instance, would be handy.
    • Please proceed creatively!

Concepts of patent class and subclass

JRH, I boldly made edits to HU V/h that may not seem suitable. The internationally comparable concepts to Főosztály and Osztály appear to be patent class and patent subclass. Across countries, patents were assigned to subclasses -- sometimes one subclass, or sometimes a list of them. Patent classes are descriptive, and are made up of collections of subclasses, and generally do NOT have patent assigned to them. E.g. "machinery" or "aeronautics" or "Sport" might be classes. I would like to say that these words match Főosztály and Osztály. Is that reasonable? -- Meyer (talk) 17:36, 12 September 2021 (PDT)