#Elmer Walter Williams

[wizardnamensalex]

This season of puppet history did have lore actually. Dorthy Ruth got engaged to Elmer Walter Williams, ran away from the altar and is looking for her dead husband Stanley Melvin

[marine-paint]

good for her!

[sapphicmumrik]

God’s back, does this mean we finally get a solution for the puppets in purgatory?

[puppet-purgatory]

how... how did shane madej manage to make a horse So loathsome that all my friends immediately cried out for his death. we knew elmer walter williams for perhaps three minutes, and everyone Hates him. what do they put in the water bottle hanging on shane's cage

[journal-number-3]

Puppet History Lore 7/14/23 (sorry it's late)

Joyce and the Professor are going to take another trip to Vegas now that he's back from the dead

Dino-Dad is applying for a job at a museum, apparently Dino-Moms friend/lover Sue works there

He has a little tie

Dino-parents are very busy off screen

Puppet History supports women who want to ride horses

The Professor doesn't believe in Dragons

During the ad break we learn Dorothy Ruth (former wife of the horse that died in the molasses flood, who's name is apparently Stanley Melvin Murphy) is getting remarried to one Elmer Walter Williams

New bit! When both contestants say A as an answer, 'its double a, like the batteries'

Dino-Dad didn't get the museum job. They also met Liza Minnelli.

The Professor officially hires dino-parents on. Dino-Dad is a camera operator and Dino-Mom is a scorekeeper.

Dino-Mom chooses Joyce as the winner (hahaha) but also gives Ryan a hat as she apparently makes them herself.

Great episode! Joyce is a pleasure as always. And I love the dino-parents and their antics. Sorry again this is so late, see you all next week!

[thespian2002]

I don’t know about y’all but I really want to know where the whole Dorothy Ruth/ Elmer Walter Williams plot line is going fr

[field-s-of-flowers]

Happy molassacre day to Stanley Melvin Murphy, Dorothy Ruth Murphy, Elmer Walter Williams, and God (puppet history edition). The rest of you have a good day ig

[freetheshit-outofyou]

USS Albacore (SS-218), a 311-foot, Gato-class submarine lost 7 November 1944 of the coast of Hokkaido Japan, she was presumed lost on 21 December 1944 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 March 1945, found 16 February 2023.

The USS Albacore earned 9 battle stars, received 4 Presidential Unit Citations and was responsible for sinking at least 10 ships.

Below is a listing of the ships compliment, their names are written in memorial at the National Memorial Cemetary of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii:

IN THESE GARDENS ARE RECORDED

THE NAMES OF AMERICANS

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES

IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY

AND WHOSE EARTHLY RESTING PLACE

IS KNOWN ONLY TO GOD

Walter Henry Barber, Jr., Kenneth Ripley Baumer, Henry Forbes Bigelow, Jr., Edward Brown Blackmon, William Walter Bower, Allan Rose Brannam, Herbert Hodge Burch, Nicholas John Cado, John Joseph Carano, Charles Lee Carpenter, James Louis Carpenter, Pasquale Charles Carracino, Stanley Chapman, Douglas Childress, Jr., Frederick Herbert Childs, Jr., Perry Aubrey Collom, Audrey Cecil Crayton, Eugene Cugnin, John Wilber Culbertson, Philip Hugh Davis, Ray Ellis Davis, Fred Wallace Day, Julius Delfonso, James Leroy DeWitt, James Thomas Dunlap, Carl Hillis Eskew, John Francis Fortier, Jr., Gordon Harvey Fullilove, Jr., John Wilfred Gant, John Paul Gennett, William Henry Gibson, John Frederick Gilkeson, Charles Chester Hall, James Kenneth Harrell, Robert Daniel Hill, Allen Don Hudgins, Donald Patrick Hughes, Eugene Edsel Hutchinson, Burton Paul Johnson, Sheridan Patrick Jones, George Kaplafka, Nelson Kelley, Jr., Morris Keith Kincaid, Victor Edward Kinon, Joseph Mike Krizanek, Arthur Star Kruger,Walter Emery Lang, Jr., Jack Allen Little, Kenneth Walter Manful, Patrick Kennyless McKenna, Willie Alexander McNeill, Joseph Norfleet Mercer, Leonard David Moss, Richard Joseph Naudack, Encarnacion Nevarez, Joseph Hayes Northam, Frank Robert Nystrom, Robert James O'Brien, Elmer Harold Peterson, Charles Francis Pieringer, Jr., James Teel Porter, Jerrold Winfred Reed, Jr., Francis Albert Riley, Hugh Raynor Rimmer, A. B. Roberts, James Ernest Rowe, Philip Shoenthal, George Maurice Sisk, Joe Lewis Spratt, Harold William St. Clair, Arthur Lemmie Stanton, Robert Joseph Starace, John Henry Stephenson, Maurice Crooks Strattan, Earl Richard Tanner, William George Tesser, Paul Raymond Tomich, Charles Edward Traynor, Theodore Taylor Walker, Elmer Weisenfluh, James Donald Welch, Richard Albert West, Wesley Joseph Willans, Leslie Allan Wilmott, David Robert Wood

[byneddiedingo]

Erich von Stroheim and Maude George in Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922)

Cast: Erich von Stroheim, Miss DuPont, Maude George, Mae Busch, Rudolph Christians, Dale Fuller, Albert Edmondson, Cesare Gravina, Malvina Polo, C.J. Allen. Screenplay: Erich von Stroheim; titles: Marian Ainslee, Walter Anthony. Cinematography: William H. Daniels, Ben F. Reynolds. Art direction: Richard Day, Elmer Sheehy, Van Alstein. Film editing: Arthur Ripley. 

Erich von Stroheim's reach exceeded Hollywood's grasp, though not without some initial encouragement by the studio heads. Universal eagerly promoted Foolish Wives as "the first million-dollar movie," and most of that sum was apparent on screen: the huge sets re-creating Monte Carlo that were built on the Monterey Peninsula in California. Some of it, too, wasn't visible: Stroheim reportedly insisted on having underwear created for his actors bearing the monograms of their characters. But there were limits to what the studio would do for the director: When Rudolph Christians, a key actor in the film, died in mid-filming, Stroheim proposed that his scenes be reshot with his stand-in, Robert Edeson, but was forced to give in to the studio's work-around: Edeson played the role in the remaining scenes with his back to the camera. But mostly, the studio's resistance was to Stroheim's vision of a movie that would run somewhere between six and 10 hours and be shown on two consecutive nights. He was forced to settle for a three-and-a-half-hour version, which was subsequently cut again under the instructions of the New York censors. More cuts by the studio followed after the film was a box office disappointment, so that what we see today is a reconstruction cobbled together from existing versions. But after that, what we have is a juicy, kinky melodrama about decadent Europe trying to corrupt innocent America. Stroheim plays a con man pretending to be an exiled Russian aristocrat, Count Sergius Karamzin, living with two women he says are his cousins: the phony princesses Olga Petchnikoff (Maude George) and Vera Petchnikoff (Mae Busch). They're out to milk whatever cash they can from suckers at Monte Carlo, and Sergius sets his sights on Helen Hughes (Miss DuPont), the wife of an American diplomat (Christians). In his down time from that seduction, he also pursues, with purely carnal intent, a hotel maid (Dale Fuller) and the pretty but mentally challenged daughter (Malvina Polo) of the man who counterfeits the money Sergius uses to bilk gamblers at the casino. There's a spectacular storm and an even more spectacular fire, too, before Sergius gets perhaps more than what's coming to him. Even in its truncated version, Foolish Wives is almost too much. 

[non-beliverclub]

I want more updates on Dorothy Ruth and Elmer Walter Williams

[airmanisr]

NACA Muroc Contingent with X-1-2 Aircraft by NASA on The Commons Via Flickr: Description The NACA Muroc Contingent in October 1947 in front of the Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 and Boeing B-29 launch aircraft. Standing left to right: Le Roy Proctor, Jr., Don Borchers, Harold Nemecek, Phyllis Actis Rogers, Milton McLaughlin, Roxanah Yancey, Arthur Bill Vernon, Dorothy Clift Hughes, Naomi C. Wimmer, Frank Hughes, John Mayer, Elmer Bigg, De E. Beeler. Kneeling left to right: Charles Hamilton, Joseph Vensel, Herbert Hoover, Hubert Drake, Eugene Beckwith, Walter Williams, Harold Goodman, Howard Lilly, John Gardner. Image # : EC95-43116-6 Date: October 1947

[littleturtle99]

ELMER WALTER WILLIAMS IN THE FLESH????

[minggelmanggel]

Early 1960s Ramsey Reformed Church Family Directory, Titonka, Iowa - 1.3

Figure 1-3-1

Page 3 Handwritten Content:

A series of small diagonal lines written on the left of most member numbers.

119 - Long horizontal line written on the left.

119, 149, 154, 167 - Small checkmarks added to the right.

149, 154, 157, 166 - Long horizontal line written on the right.

134 - "Mrs." added.

137 - Middle initial "A" overwritten with "R".

156 - "Mrs." added.

163 - ��Herman” written over the last name “Ubben", a correction of the typed first name of “Harold”.

Page 3 Typos:

113 - Typewriter strike-over “l” in “Rafdal” over letter “h”.

168 - Typewriter strike-over “I” in “Wirtjes” over letter “e”.

Page 3 Typed Content:

-3- 112. Radmaker, Mrs. John, Titonka, Iowa 113. Rafdal, Vern, Titonka, Iowa 114. Rickleffs, Melvin, Titonka, Iowa 115. Rickleffs, Vernon, Titonka, Iowa 116. Ricks, Elmer, Titonka, Iowa 117. Ricks, George, Titonka, Iowa 118. Rippentrop, George, Sr., Titonka, Iowa 119. Rippentrop, Mrs. James, Buffalo Center, Iowa 120. Rippentrop, John S., Buffalo Center, Iowa 121. Rippentrop, Raymond J., Titonka, Iowa 122. Rippentrop, Roger, Titonka, Iowa 123. Risius, Andrew, Buffalo Center, Iowa 124. Risius, Frank, Buffalo Center, Iowa 125. Risius, Harm, Buffalo Center, Iowa 126. Risius, Harold, Buffalo, Center, Iowa 127. Risius, Klaas, Buffalo Center, Iowa 128. Roskamp, Paul, Titonka, Iowa 129. Schutter, Mrs. Lena, Titonka, Iowa 130. Seefeld, Clarence, Britt, Iowa 131. Severeins, Mrs. Anna, Burt, Iowa - Maple Leaf Rest Home 132. Sleper, Albert E., Lakota, Iowa 133. Siehlmann, Bert, Forest City, Iowa 134. Siehlmann, Ben, Titonka, Iowa 135. Sleper, Dick, Buffalo Center, Iowa 136. Sleper, Evert, Titonka, Iowa 137. Sleper, John R., Titonka, Iowa 138. Sleper, John E., Titonka, Iowa 139. Smidt, Enko, Titonka, Iowa 140. Smidt, John, Titonka, Iowa 141. Smidt, Simon, Titonka, Iowa 142. Smidt, Wardden, Titonka, Iowa 143. Smidt, Warner, Jr., Titonka, Iowa 144. Smidt, Warner, Sr., Titonka, Iowa 145. Smidt, William A., Buffalo Center, Iowa 146. Smith, Arlo, Titonka, Iowa 147. Smith, Mrs. L. G., Titonka, Iowa 148. Sonnenberg, Ed, Titonka, Iowa 149. Sonnenberg, Russell, Swea City, Iowa 150. Sonnenberg, Miss Gertie, Titonka, Iowa 151. Spear, Robert, Titonka, Iowa 152. Sunken, Henry, Titonka, Iowa 153. Tapper, Donald, Buffalo Center, Iowa 154. Tapper, Mrs. Joe, Buffalo Center, Iowa 155. Tapper, Walter, Buffalo Center, Iowa 156. Tegtmeyer, Donald, Tripoli, Iowa 157. Tjaden, Mrs. George, Titonka, Iowa 158. Tjaden, Stephen, Lakota, Iowa 159. Tjarks, Herman, Titonka, Iowa 160. Ubben, Mrs. Anna, Titonka, Iowa 161. Ubben Harold, Lakota, Iowa 162. Ubben, Mrs. Hattie, Buffalo Center, Iowa 163. Ubben, Harold, Titonka, Iowa 164. Ubbe, Mrs. Johanna, Titonka, Iowa 165. Ubben, John, Buffalo Center, Iowa 166. Van Hove, Henry, Titonka, Iowa 167. Wirtjes, Alvin, Elmore, Minnesota 168. Wirtjes, Arthur, Lakota, Iowa 169. Wirtjes, Ed, Titonka, Iowa 170. Wirtjes, Herman, Lakota, Iowa

[mcphilbrick]

Saturday Tidbits

Courier Tribune available on Seneca Free Library Digital Archives21 Nov 1940page 1 Draft Order(Official List Continued) 51 Wilbur Louis Roeder52 Virgil Elmer Brockman53 Walter Stauffer54 Vincent Frank Wessel55 Gerald Edwin Wiggins56 Raymond Clarence Shaffer57 George Darrel Hawley58 Bernard Frances Runnebaum59 Ferdinand Henry Niehues60 Sylvester Joseph Wietharn61 Edward John Hasenkamp62 William…

[puppet-purgatory]

season 6 thots

saved all my complimence and criticisms until the end for all our sakes

The new Professor puppet is great and I love him. He looks cuddly as shit, and I hope he continues to get more fun outfits.

Shane please put arm rods on the Professor I’m begging. If u can move his hands he’ll look so much more animated and can do a lot of funny shit that way

I enjoyed this season’s theme of “people who, no matter where or what they were, decided to just do some batshit stuff in life” and didn’t make us think in absolutes of They Were Obviously Evil/Good and let us draw our own conclusions.

(It also fit with Ryan and the Professor’s character arcs imo- they’ve both made mistakes, and the Antarctica episode Especially is about leaders whose personal shortcomings lead to uhhhh Death! so)

THAT BEING SAID I am WAITING for a follow up on the Catholic church’s abuse where it’s condemned. It was not right at all for that hat to get off scot free like it did. Send his ass to hell

idk who exactly writes the songs for puppet history but the fact they can write something that flops as hard as the Dragon's song and then something with the genuinely stunning vocabulary and imagery of Antarctica's is fucking insane.

i love the horse subplot going on. fuck elmer walter williams. go dorothy ruth murphy. chase the truth. while im at it? go dinosara. i'm so happy for her

season was a Bit Eurocentric imo. disappointing

the production quality of the puppets has increased so drastically. it's genuinely pleasing to see this medium being treated well even by amateur performers. i extend a Big Bravo to the cast & crew at Watcher!!!

i'm neither disappointed nor glad about the "lack" of lore- it's one of my favorite parts of the show, but what i love most is just getting to watch it and learn new things. however if you guys didnt want us asking so many questions you shouldn't have made such a cute and fun Host and cast of supporting characters to get attached to<3

already looking forward to next season, though i'm predicting a holiday special along the same lines as the funeral one- i think halloween is an appropriate time to find out what happened to all our "dead" friends and foes dont u 🤔 but maybe that is Wishful Thinking.....

[thefinancialpyramid]

A history of automation: the rise of robots and AI

Over time, we’ve grown reliant on automated technology. It’s found in almost every part of our lives, from automatic doors in retail, to factory line robots, to business process automation in the office.

And beyond automation, artificial intelligence is a now daily reality, too. The dreaded robot takeover seems to be looming ever closer.

We have chatbots handling customer service, AI in our back pockets, and increasingly ‘smart’ homes.

But how did we get here?

Here’s a closer look at the history of automation and the rise of robots and AI.

Early machines and concepts

The concept of AI isn’t as new as you’d think. In fact, some suggest that the idea of artificial intelligence was conceived by the Ancient Greeks.

However, without working machines and computers, those ideas didn’t translate into real-world automation. So, despite what you might have read elsewhere, the true history of automation starts far closer than Aristotle and Socrates.

The early life of automation begins, then, with the industrial revolution and industrial machinery between 1790 and 1840. Then, like now, people feared the impact of automation on their jobs. (Though it all turned out well in the end).

As for AI, well that needs a computer.

In 1837, Charles Babbage began creation of a prototype machine he called ‘The Analytical Engine’, which was the first device to earn the name ‘computer’. His friend Ada Lovelace, meanwhile, created the first ever computer program, which would have run on the machine. Sadly, Babbage died before his prototype was complete.

Creation of robots

Early on, the concept and development of robots, automation and AI went unrecognised by most of the world. Still, people of many different backgrounds, cultures and professions studied the obscure interest.

In the early 1900s, the term robot was coined by Karel Capek, a Czech writer, in his 1920 play Rossum’s Universal Robots. Having coined the term, Capek’s play also presented the first instance of robots taking over the world. (The science fiction trope started alongside the creation of robots themselves.)

By 1939, the first physical robot, ELEKTRO, went on display at the World’s fair — marking a key point in the history of automation. With human commands, he could walk, smoke cigarettes and blow up balloons.

Three laws of robotics

Following this physical bot creation, Isaac Asimov created the famous three laws of robotics in the early 1940s. (Which he used in his own works of fiction.)

These rules were then accepted by other writers who used them in their science fiction pieces as well. The three rules dictate the ways a robot must act with regard to humans:

One: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Two: A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

Three: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

First AI

With the concept of robots invented and generally understood by most, the first autonomous robots in the history of automation were created in 1948 by William Grey Walter. These came in the shape of two ‘tortoises’: Elmer and Elsie.

The robots could find their way around obstacles without human help by following light and making use of a bump sensor. Remarkably, the success in the interaction of these two ‘sensory’ inputs (light and touch) which enabled these robots to work, also helped us to better understand our own nervous system.

In 1950, Alan Turing devised a way to measure the ‘intelligence’ of a machine, which tested the machine’s ability to ‘think’. It is known as The Turing Test and is still used today.

Academic recognition

With so much success in the world of robotics, the study started to gain recognition within the academic community.

In 1956, a Dartmouth University conference introduced the term ‘artificial intelligence’ and the field of AI research.

This encouraged many to continue the development of robotics, and officially started research into the development of artificial intelligence.

The history of automation is not all success, however. Negative reports about Natural Language Processing (NLP) in 1966, which highlighted the failings of a 10-year study, caused a delay in the further development of language processing in AI.

It wasn’t until the early 70s that an influential group focused on Natural Language Processing was established at the Artificial Intelligence Centre at the Stanford Research Institute.

The 60s, 70s and 80s

Notable robots in the 60s included the 1966 therapy chatbot ‘ELIZA’, who had started life as a joke. Then there was the 1968 mobile robot affectionately named ‘Shakey’.

Following this period of innovation, the history of automation saw something of a subdued period.

The 70s and 80s came to be referred to as the AI winter. Interest in the development of AI dwindled, and people became more pessimistic about its chances of success. This didn’t mean that AI research was on hold, merely that it stepped out of the limelight for a while.

We did see some developments, though. There was SCARA the assembly line aid in 1979. There was the robot that learnt from experience, RB5X, in 1984. Then, in 1985 the term ‘virtual reality’ was coined with the first sales of VR gloves and glasses. The phrase ‘augmented reality’ would shortly follow, invented in 1990 by Tom Caudell.

Around that same time, (1989) Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented hyperlinks and hypertext, and used them to invent the World Wide Web. (We’re glad he did, too.)

Computerised automation started to develop around this time, and the 90s would mark the start of AI development moving away from physical bots to digital programs.

90s AI and automation software

The 1990s was a time for major advances in AI. An artificial intelligence called ‘Deep Blue’ defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov at chess. NASA deployed its first autonomous robotics system, Sojourner, on the surface of Mars.

Meanwhile, web crawlers (and other AI-based data extraction programs) became a key part of widespread web use.

The 90s also marks the time when the history of automation fully intertwined with business process management. The growth of BPM and computerised automation led to the 90s being known for large BPM systems.

The millennium

The history of automation suffered a distinct gap in the advancement of technology in the early 2000s. After the creation of ASIMO, (which is claimed to be ‘the worlds most advanced humanoid robot’) by Honda in 2000, automation development went quiet for a while.

Negative reviews of business process management (for which business process automation is an invaluable tool) saw search rates for the term drop by more than half between 2004 and 2011. Business interest in automated management solutions had unexpectedly dipped.

In 2011, the release of Apple’s Siri broke the radio silence period regarding automation breakthroughs. Siri triggered a new age of automation and AI driven assistants. This embodied the move away from physical robots and into the development of computerised automation, and AI software that had begun in the late 80s and early 90s.

The present day

Business process automation or BPA (plus its cousin robotic process automation or RPA) is becoming more and more refined and efficient.

In the present day, automation software has become a necessity rather than a luxury. Its widespread use is optimising employee time and work, and leading to enormous resource savings.

We experience the wonder of AI daily, be it on Twitter, in emails, in our video games or elsewhere. We have artificial intelligence assistants in our phones, in our cars and in our homes. All this in the youth of the technology, too.

It isn’t perfect. Siri doesn’t always have the answer, Alexa occasionally mishears us. NPCs in video games do stupid (and hilarious) things, and as recently as 2016 we saw the failure that was Microsoft’s Tay.

But despite these shortfalls, AI and automation are more versatile now than ever before. And they’re developing and improving by the day.

The future of automation

The history of automation, despite a few bumps along the way, has seen a lot of success in a short period of time. It continues to grow and evolve today, providing us with more innovative solutions, interactive AI, and assistance in unravelling the secrets of the universe.

It’s impossible to know if Karel Capek and all the science fiction writers after him were right about a future robot rebellion. What’s clear is that the future looks to be automated.

As exciting as current and future tech is, we shouldn’t forget the history of automation or the work that it has taken to get us where we are today.

Credits: ThinkAutomation

Date: 2022

Source: https://www.thinkautomation.com/bots-and-ai/a-history-of-automation-the-rise-of-robots-and-ai/

#business #areteautomation #automation #software #technology