RE: [Leica] Leica and fountain pens

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

Yes Marc, and Gottlieb Daimler invented the Motorcylce, hence the
Daimler-Benz name.
If they used the Leica naming convention, it would be the DaimCar (Damn
Car).

- -----Original Message-----
From: Marc James Small [mailto:msmall@roanoke.infi.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 1:51 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica and fountain pens


At 03:07 PM 6/9/99 -0400, Buzz Hausner wrote:
>     Yes, but not until Marc Small tells me who was REALLY first!          

Well, St John says, "In the Beginning, was the Word", so we CAN start from
first principles!

Mercedes was the original manufacturer of automobiles.  For pens, I use a
Koh-i-Noor Rapidograph for doodling, but acknowledge that the India Ink
clogs these most terribly.  So, for daily work, I use a Cross pen, of which
I have a slew in both black and chrome.  (The Charming Cindy, incidentally,
sits one cubicle away from an heir to the Cross family whom she always
refers to as "the Pen guy".)

Leica didn't make the first production 35mm camera, though, for the life of
me, the exact precedence escapes me at the moment.  What they DID do was to
manufacture the first commercially viable camera and drove the others out
of the marketplace.  Franke & Heidecke DID produce the first TLR,
incidentally, though Voigtlander, closely related, was working on the
concept as well.   The first miniature-format (35mm) SLR was either the
Soviet Sport or the Exakta, though these both lacked prismatic finders.
There are three claimants to be the first SLR with a prismatic finder,
though this is generally credited to the Contax D, as Zeiss Ikon was ready
to put this in production in 1940 and only the War slowed it down.

And a couple of years back, we had a heated discussion about hats.  A lot
of folks used a certain brand, the name of which escapes me.  I don't wear
hats, or, in any event, haven't since I retired from the Army Reserve.  

Marc

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