ROBERT E. LUBECK b. July 17, 1920

HAPPY BIRTHDAY R.E.

Robert Eric Lubeck was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1920. He married Doris Clarke in 1942. The couple had four boys. Robert was the Features Editor for the Detroit News. Doris and Bob grew up in Grosse Pointe and lived there until the late 1970s when they moved to Naples Florida. Robert died in Naples, Florida in 1996 due to complication that developed after a car accident a year earlier. His family includes his wife Doris, four sons, five grandsons, and three great-grandsons, and two great- grand daugthers.   

CARL CANHAM CLARKE - Happy Birthday

Carl Canham Clarke

Born July 8, 1893

Best Grandfather a boy could have.

Family History

Family from Crewkerne, Somerset, United Kingdom
Father Wellington Clarke living in Port Huron
Mother Hattie Canham from Port Huron
Brother Wellington S. Clarke Jr. (called the Colonel)
Hattie deserted Wellington and the boys
Wellington raised Carl sent younger brother to be raised by sister Bess Clarke
Carl fought in WWI
Carl was a salesman for canned goods to groceries
Took one of the first Dale Carnegie classes
Married Geraldine Marie Hilton
One child - Doris Clarke
Carl and Gerry lived to see two grandsons (David and Roger)
Carl died from a heart attack
Gerry died only weeks later from a blood clot in her leg

THE STEAM ENGINE AND STEAMPUNK

July 2, 1698 

The first commercial Steam Engine is Patented. 

Does this mark the beginning of Steampunk?

 

From Wikipedia

Thomas Savery (c. 1650–1715) was an English inventor and engineer, born at Shilstone, a manor house near Modbury, Devon, England. He is famous for his invention of the first commercially used steam powered engine.

From Wikipedia

Steampunk refers to a subgenre of science fiction and sometimes fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. Although its literary origins are sometimes associated with the cyberpunk genre, steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th century's British Victorian era or American "Wild West", in a post-apocalyptic future during which steam power has maintained mainstream usage, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power. 


It may, therefore, be described as neo-Victorian. Steampunk perhaps most recognisably features anachronistic technologies or retro-futuristic inventions as people in the 19th century might have envisioned them, and is likewise rooted in the era's perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. 

One of the symbols of Steampunk is the airship. Irronically today, the first Zeppelin flight took place on 2 July 1900 over Lake Constance. Damaged during landing, it was repaired and modified and proved its potential in two subsequent flights made on 17 and 24 October 1900.

Such technology may include fictional machines like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the modern authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld, Stephen Hunt and China Miéville. Other examples of steampunk contain alternative history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analogue computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.

Steampunk may also incorporate additional elements from the genres of fantasy, horror, historical fiction, alternate history, or other branches of speculative fiction, making it often a hybrid genre. The term steampunk's first known appearance was in 1987, though it now retroactively refers to many works of fiction created even as far back as the 1950s or 1960s.

Steampunk also refers to any of the artistic styles, clothing fashions, or subcultures, that have developed from the aesthetics of steampunk fiction, Victorian-era fiction, art nouveau design, and films from the mid-20th century.Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk.