User:Econterms

me

 * See my main identity at my English Wikipedia user page.

Underway

 * Roster of Registered U.S. Patent Attorneys 1903 - my first entry into main space
 * The Mueller Report
 * Samuel Hopkins's U.S. license (?) #366 from 1791
 * Popular Science Monthly of 1916
 * to do: Francis Galton's work, cited in Benoit Godin's paper on early statistics of science

Wikisource community links

 * Wiki source user group List: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
 * Tool for uploading things from Internet Archive to Commons  https://toolserver.org/~tpt/iaUploadBot/step1.php
 * Wikisource statistics; http://toolserver.org/~phe/statistics.php?diff=1
 * Draft q for scriptorium: Hands-on training on wikisource would be useful for many of us. I have proposed that there be a meeting in North America for training. I put the idea at the new "IdeaLab" space for discussion.  If there is some community support it will be easier to get a grant to make it happen.  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikisource_training_conference_or_videos

Early aeronautics and aviation
I have a professional interest in aeronautics and aviation before 1916 and there's a lot here on Wikisource to use and to work on. Need to apply these wonderful categories: Category:Aviation, Category:Aeronautics, and add to Author:Octave Chanute and Author:Cleveland Abbe


 * Octave Chanute. 1904. Aerial Navigation.  Popular Science Monthly, vol. 64, 385-393.  (cited by Brockett, 1910)
 * Mayer, Alfred M. 1876. Flying-Machines and Penaud's Artificial Bird. Popular Science Monthly Popular Science Monthly/Volume 8/February 1876/Flying-Machines and Penaud's Artificial Bird  (not cited by Brockett, 1910, but should have been -- add it to database --- work on this text!!!
 * Flower, W.H. 1886. The wings of birds. Popular Science Monthly 30:16, 240-242. (cited by Brockett, 1910)
 * Samuel Pierpont Langley. Experiments with the Langley aerodrome. Popular Science Monthly 73:5 (Nov. 1908), 462-474, ill. 1. (cited by Brockett, 1910)
 * Joseph Le Conte. 1888. The Problem of a Flying-Machine. Popular Science Monthly 34 (Nov.), 69-76.  (cited by Le Conte, 1894.)  (not cited by Brockett, 1910, but should have been' -- add it to database)
 * Joseph Le Conte. 1894. New lights on the problem of flying. Popular Science Monthly 44 (April), 744-757. (cited by Brockett, 1910)
 * Lucas, Frederick A. 1900. Birds as flying machines. Popular Science Monthly 57:5, 473-478. (Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_57/September_1900/Birds_as_Flying_Machines) (cited by Brockett, 1910)
 * Cochrane, Charles H. Recent progress in aerial navigation. Popular Science Monthly 58:6, 1901, 616-624, figs 1-15 (Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_58/April_1901/Recent_Progress_in_Aerial_Navigation]) (cited by Brockett, 1910) -- get back to work:  Page:Popular_Science_Monthly_Volume_58.djvu/627)
 * Gilbert Grosvenor. The tetrahedral kites of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. Popular Science Monthly 64:2 (Dec., 1903), 131-151, figs 1-22. (cited by Brockett, 1910)
 * Aerial navigation. Popular Science Monthly 73:4, 1908, 381-382. (Brockett # 83)  (cited by Brockett, 1910)
 * Author:Gaston Tissandier!  See list:
 * |Travels in the Air
 * Author:Wilfrid de Fonvielle
 * 1911 Britannica articles on aeronautics and aerostation
 * search 1911 Britannica
 * Helene Bonfort. 1895. Wellner's Sail-Wheel Flying Machine. Popular Science Monthly, March 1895. (thanks, Ineuw!)  Note this statement:  ". . . the aëronautic problem will most probably admit of a satisfactory solution only by means of dynamic flying machines. Prof. Wellner is of the opinion that . . . this end . . . is likely to be attained before the close of our century."  (by 1900)  And at the end of the article:  "The prominent English physicists. Lord Kelvin, Lord Rayleigh, etc., speak of Maxim's air-ship with the greatest enthusiasm; they expect him actually to solve the problem in a near future."
 * to do: add Index:United States patent 821393 and connect it to the main page page header and the pdf and put it in the works of orville and wilbur
 * started on work of Besio Moreno: https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/P%C3%A1gina:Anales_de_la_Sociedad_Cient%C3%ADfica_Argentina_-_Tomo_77.djvu/261

Notes on The Education of Henry Adams
This book difficult to follow, partly because it makes so many oblique references to specifics of the author's time and place. I am reading and taking notes on basic underlying facts of it. The notes are on various discussion pages and clarify the text. Here are key bits:
 * page 21 -- relevant locations in Massachusetts: Boston, Quincy, and Medford
 * page 22 -- the styles of the many historic houses of his family's, and what the author preferred
 * page 32 -- lays out his mother's proximate family tree of notables named Brooks and Adams
 * page 37 -- views on American division about slavery circa 1850, in which the author's father Charles Francis Adams Sr was an important figure

BLS portal category
I work at BLS and transcribe some of its historic work now and then:
 * Use this: Portal:United_States_Department_of_Labor
 * and this: Category:PD-USGov

Wikisource techniques
To show a hyphenated word at the end of a page: and at the beginning of the next page:

Making an index

 * create index with exactly the name of the commons file, prefixed simply by Index:
 * save with minimal info filled in
 * Then, at least for simple modern docs, add 1=1 and save again
 * Then add "Ready to Match"; documents with pagination changes are harder but I don't need to address those cases now