The Ts also Have It

Taxi   
In 1640 Paris, Nicolas Sauvage offered horse-drawn carriages and drivers for hire.

Two hundred years later 1891 Germany, Wilhelm Bruhn invented the taximeter. It is an instrument which measures the distance a vehicle travels, and allows an accurate fare to be determined.

On 16 June 1897 Friedrich Greiner started the Daimler Victoria taxi fleet. He was a Stuttgart entrepreneur who started the world's first motorized taxi company.

In 1907 Harry Allen start a taxicab service in New York and repainted them all yellow to be visible from a distance.

Telephone   
In the 1870s, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically.

Both men registered their designs at the patent office within hours of each other. Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone first. Elisha Gray entered into a legal battle over the invention of the telephone. Bell won and the rest was history.

Television  
Television was not invented by a single inventor. In 1831 Joseph Henry and Michael Faraday tinkered with electromagnetism and began the era of electronic communication.

The title as to who was the inventor of modern television narrows down to Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a Russian-born American emplyee of Westinghouse, and Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a farm boy from the state of Utah.

In 1930 American Charles Jenkins broadcasts the first TV commercial.

Trains
Rails called wagonways were being used in Germany as early as 1550.

By 1776, iron had replaced the wood in the rails. Wagonways evolved into tramways and spread thoughout Europe. Horses still provided the pulling power.

In 1825 George Stephenson built the locomotion for the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England, which was the first steam railway in the world.

The American rail network began with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1828.

Imaginary Noises

Noise, real or imaginary can be very frustrating between neighbours.

Neurologists have identified Auditory Hallucinations as a cause of many neigbourly spats.

Hearing one's name being called aloud or hearing a voice but finding no one there is common.

Sound such as knocking , door closing, heavy walking, furniture dragging are also often cited.

Hallucinations have been linked to mental illness for many years.

Psychiatric illness, such as schizophrenia and dementia are known to be causes of auditory hallucination.

A 75 year woman drove her neighbour nuts telling them to turn their music down when they weren't playing any.

Psychotherapy treatment is recommended for people with the condition, particularly the elderly.

Babes in Man Terrain

Women are breaking gender barriers in the traditionally "Man's Job".

 bull riding

Paige Stout, born 1994 in Texas. She is one of the few female stock contractors in Professional Bull Riders history.

 paige stout

Born in Helena Montana USA, Mesa Pate 21, is also a female stock contractor making waves in the man's arena.

       mesa pate

Nurhafizah Abu Sujad is the Singapore national soccer team’s physiotherapist. Studied at University of Sydney, the 31 year old is married with 2 children.

nurhafizah sujad

photo by Jai AK 

Maria Esther Landa 36, from Lima, Peru is one of her country's few female welders. She began learning to weld at age 18 and 10 years later with her elder sister Elvira, founded Santa Maria Industries.

maria landa

And in Canada there is The Welder Chic owned by Theresa Siochowicz 38 and Heather Greenway 28.

Theresa Siochowicz  / Heather Greenway

Lisa Mirtsopoulos and Melissa Marco work as giant dump truck drivers in Australia mining industry. The number of such woman drivers are growing.

Tina Chong is a former Guinness Beauty Queen in Malaysia. Durian plantation is generally man business. She planted her 18 acre durian orchard in the early 1990s which now has 700 trees mostly of the king of durians, Musang King.

a former Guinness Beauty Queen

a former Guinness Beauty Queen

a former Guinness Beauty Queen