{"id":90703,"date":"2022-11-10T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=90703"},"modified":"2022-11-12T09:18:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T13:18:43","slug":"thursday-night-senator-leahy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2022\/11\/10\/thursday-night-senator-leahy\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; Senator Leahy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We had such an exciting day at work\u2026 Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy came to give a special all company talk today at BETA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"90705\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FB2B7753-FA65-48EF-B133-0162DAC72AF3_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90705\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FB2B7753-FA65-48EF-B133-0162DAC72AF3_1_105_c.jpeg 769w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FB2B7753-FA65-48EF-B133-0162DAC72AF3_1_105_c.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FB2B7753-FA65-48EF-B133-0162DAC72AF3_1_105_c.jpeg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"90707\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CCF54B59-010B-4B85-9862-56A24D992916_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90707\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CCF54B59-010B-4B85-9862-56A24D992916_1_105_c.jpeg 769w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CCF54B59-010B-4B85-9862-56A24D992916_1_105_c.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CCF54B59-010B-4B85-9862-56A24D992916_1_105_c.jpeg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"90706\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/E30255BD-7316-4043-9F8B-D0EC62D5003C_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90706\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/E30255BD-7316-4043-9F8B-D0EC62D5003C_1_105_c.jpeg 769w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/E30255BD-7316-4043-9F8B-D0EC62D5003C_1_105_c.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/E30255BD-7316-4043-9F8B-D0EC62D5003C_1_105_c.jpeg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen Leahy has been a fantastic advocate for beta and a fantastic advocate for Vermont. He&#8217;s been our Senator for 48 years ! Thats\u00a0 since before\u00a0 I moved to the state.\u00a0 He is such an inspiration to me. I&#8217;ve met him many times over the years\u00a0 in multiple capacities both from his work on patents\u00a0 while I was at IBM and his work at the Echo Leahy center \u2026 He always has time to stop and talk and he has an amazing memory. (He once told me what&#8217;s the most amazing story of taking Jerry Garcia Mickey Hart and Bob Weir from the Grateful Dead to the Senate cafeteria where they met Strom Thurmond.\u2026 Crazy.\u2026 ). Marcelle told me that they still have a\u00a0 Samstone on\u00a0 their desk at home which was so nice to hear !<br \/>Today the senator and his wife Marcelle were at Beta talking about progress that&#8217;s been made in building clean hi tech jobs in Vermont.\u2026 It was such an honor having the Senator and Marcelle visit us here. . As part of the visit Kyle had asked me to do a very short demo of a new demonstration model we just got. It&#8217;s a working model of the 1837 electric motor designed by Brandon Vermont blacksmith Thomas Davenport.\u00a0 Senator Leahy liked the story\u00a0 Kyle told of being able the worlds first patented electric motor right next to some of our plane&#8217;s electric motors which are among the most energy efficient in the world.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>I saw the Senator wrote this tweet about it .. how cool is that ?!?!?!<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"474\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">While visiting BETA today, I was able to see a model of the first electric engine, patented in Brandon, VT, in 1837. Thank you to Dr. John Cohn for sharing it with me. Nearly 200 years later, VTers are still leaders in innovation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1kvgyZ8GKr\">pic.twitter.com\/1kvgyZ8GKr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sen. Patrick Leahy (@SenatorLeahy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorLeahy\/status\/1590816532287856641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The motor model was made by my good friend David Hammond from the UVM physics department. He is a master physicist and crafts person. He&#8217;s been studying Thomas Davenport for a couple of years and used his 1837 patent drawings to re-create this beautiful working model of the motor. It is the first patented electric motor in the entire world and was patent number 132 of the US patent office. I believe it to be the first patent of any device that used electricity to do useful work in the world.\u2026 That&#8217;s pretty amazing coming from a self trained blacksmith in Brandon Vermont in the 1830s!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave  even used 200 year old maple that he found in the barn of his beautiful old farmhouse to make the frame of the model. He also hand machine all the metal parts. It&#8217;s really a beautiful art piece and a great demonstration of science, history and culture.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we&#8217;re using the model motor as part of our Studyhall project to show some of the basic physics of her motors work and to show that great Vermont ingenuity that lead from davenports motors to the motors on our plane. I love this pic of my friend Aaron demonstrating  the motor to our fried and team mate Harper..  T<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"90710\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/E7B413E2-8279-428C-BC41-0D21F320E8FD_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90710\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/E7B413E2-8279-428C-BC41-0D21F320E8FD_1_105_c.jpeg 769w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/E7B413E2-8279-428C-BC41-0D21F320E8FD_1_105_c.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/E7B413E2-8279-428C-BC41-0D21F320E8FD_1_105_c.jpeg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There was one more fun stop on the day\u2026 &#8216;Diane and I took our young friend Finn to the Flynn (say that five times)\u2026 To see a lyric theater production of &#8220;into the woods&#8221;\u2026 It&#8217;s a Stephen Sondheim musical about a mix of children&#8217;s fairytales. I got a free ticket to go because I had to help build asome of the the props\u2026 A magic smoking wand for the witch and a self playing harp for the jack in the bean stock part. My young  friend Henry and also helped by using their FIRST  tech challenge  (FTC) robot dressed as a chicken to come out on stage and lay an egg !  Super fun !<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" data-id=\"90708\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/C637A82D-E689-409B-A377-71E0722A7CAC_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90708\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/C637A82D-E689-409B-A377-71E0722A7CAC_1_105_c.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/C637A82D-E689-409B-A377-71E0722A7CAC_1_105_c.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/C637A82D-E689-409B-A377-71E0722A7CAC_1_105_c.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/C637A82D-E689-409B-A377-71E0722A7CAC_1_105_c.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/C637A82D-E689-409B-A377-71E0722A7CAC_1_105_c.jpeg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" data-id=\"90709\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AF0F47A4-473E-4A18-83B5-7169CC1DE457_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90709\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AF0F47A4-473E-4A18-83B5-7169CC1DE457_1_105_c.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AF0F47A4-473E-4A18-83B5-7169CC1DE457_1_105_c.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AF0F47A4-473E-4A18-83B5-7169CC1DE457_1_105_c.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AF0F47A4-473E-4A18-83B5-7169CC1DE457_1_105_c.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AF0F47A4-473E-4A18-83B5-7169CC1DE457_1_105_c.jpeg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>note all, note sam !<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had such an exciting day at work\u2026 Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy came to give a special all company talk today at BETA. Sen Leahy has been a fantastic advocate for beta and a fantastic advocate for Vermont. He&#8217;s been our Senator for 48 years ! Thats\u00a0 since before\u00a0 I moved to the state.\u00a0 He &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2022\/11\/10\/thursday-night-senator-leahy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night &#8211; Senator Leahy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90713,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90703\/revisions\/90713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}