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#61 a1s

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 02:48 PM

it might have been the guy who invented the truck (or "Lorry", as they are called on this side of the pond :ok: )
Thus his name should be Lawrence, but I have no idea what his last name is...
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Posted 13 May 2008 - 03:57 PM

View PostFrodo, on May 13 2008, 03:04 PM, said:

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Nope.  (I don't even know who that is.)
The inventor of the... brush?:ok:
Hehe.  No, he invented suspension for motor vehicles.   :P
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Posted 13 May 2008 - 04:32 PM

Nope, not the truck guy either.  Another hint:  "One of the worst places on earth," referred to earlier, was a beech forest without trees.
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Posted 13 May 2008 - 09:15 PM

now that is just offensive! Beech is just as much a tree as any. better even. :ok:
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Posted 14 May 2008 - 09:38 AM

Hmm... No frigging idea. Anyways, I gathered the clues here:

I was an inventor whose best-known invention wasn't produced until some nine years after it was patented. It's neither a hand grenade nor a spice grinder, but it played a significant role in keeping me alive in one of the worst places on earth.

The name of my best-known invention (really the only one I was known for) is the feminine form of my first name.

For many years, my invention was much loved by rally racers for its durability and ease of use.

"One of the worst places on earth," referred to earlier, was a beech forest without trees.

...70 years... LOL

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Posted 21 May 2008 - 12:38 PM

Um... the guy who invented brakes?   :ok:
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Posted 22 May 2008 - 04:27 PM

I'm in a training class this week with sporadic Internet access, but I'll jump in really quick and say that in rally racing, the mystery person's invention is actually used by the co-driver rather than the driver, so we're not looking for the man who invented brakes.  :ok:
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Posted 22 May 2008 - 04:36 PM

Or then there's a really strange rally in question?

Hmm... Who invented map? :ok: My mind is probably broken or set to my fictive late roman era world because I can't come up with anything else but map! (Which it of course can't be, because we are looking for a person who invented something that has feminine form of his name...)
...70 years... LOL

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Posted 25 May 2008 - 08:08 PM

I wonder how a spice grinder can save your life...
or how a hand grenade can save you in a post-Chernobyl beech forest...
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Posted 27 May 2008 - 07:25 PM

Perhaps it would help if I rephrased an earlier clue to read "a beech forest without Bäume."
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Posted 28 May 2008 - 08:27 AM

was his name Kart, Graf of Einplatz, and he invented Cartography?
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Posted 28 May 2008 - 07:51 PM

Heh heh...no, the person in question has nothing to do with maps.
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Posted 29 May 2008 - 02:53 PM

Right, so if he's a Buchenwald survivor that probably means he made his invention sometime in the late 1930s or early 1940s. I still haven't got a clue who it's supposed to be, though.:ok:

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Posted 29 May 2008 - 04:58 PM

Curt Herzstark.

Inventor of the Curta mechanical calculator known as the "Pepper Grinder", and nicknamed "Math Grenade" by William Gibson (as far as I can tell).
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Posted 29 May 2008 - 05:51 PM

A1s FTW!  Nice job!  I realize this one may have been a little too obscure, but I love the look of the Curta.  If I could afford one, I'd pick it up, just to play with it.

I first learned of the existence of the Curta from Gibson's Pattern Recognition, and I was going to put "math grenade" somewhere in the very first clue, but that would've been way too easy, as the first Google hit on the phrase would've given it away.
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