Identifier: williampainterhi00pain (find matches)
Title: William Painter and his father, Dr. Edward Painter : sketches and reminiscences
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Painter, Orrin Chalfant, 1864- comp
Subjects: Painter, William, 1838-1906 Painter, Edward, 1812-1875 Crown Cork and Seal Company, Baltimore, Md Bottling machinery
Publisher: Baltimore : Arundel Press
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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threads between thewindow-sashes on windy days. He also took pleasure in performing electrical ex-periments whenever the air was highly charged with electricity in very cold weather.He took delight in all kinds of physical and chemical experiments. P^rom early manhood until the time of his death, father subscribed to theScientific American, and during the latter years of his life to the Patent OfficeGazette. These he read assiduously until late at night. We often had to call himto bed, as he would usually doze into a nap before he retired for the night. In themorning we often found his inventive designs drawn ujwn the margins of the Sci-entific American. He was fond of phi\ lug mrds, chiefly euchre, cribbage and poker, and often en-tertained lii> men friends with tliese diversions. He discovered that when all thenames of the denominations ot one suit in the deck of cards are si)elled, that is,from one up to the king, inclusive, the total number of letters reijuired to spell them 23
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