USpatent 135,899, Foote, Elisha,"Improvement in Grain-Bands, Bag-Ties, &c.",published February 18, 1873 In 1969, Footes moved to 17 Golden Square and became established as the Premier drum showroom. Following the sudden passing of Frank King, the drum tuition seat was taken over by John Tayler who remained in situ until his retirement in 2012. 1991 saw another move to 10 Golden Square, just a few doors along from the original Premier office.

Everyone at Foote’s would like to take this opportunity to thank all our friends, suppliers, manufacturers and, most importantly, our customers who have helped us achieve this huge milestone. We’re proud to feel part of the drumming community and we couldn’t have done it without you! We look forward to many more years of trading and can now claim the title WORLD’S OLDEST DRUM STORE, WHICH WOULD HAVE MADE CHARLES E. FOOTE AS PROUD AS WE ARE” Armstrong, Anne K.; Krasny, Marianne E.; Schuldt, Jonathon P. (2018). "1: Climate Change Science: The Facts". Communicating Climate Change: A Guide for Educators. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. pp.7–20. doi: 10.7591/j.ctv941wjn (inactive August 1, 2023). ISBN 978-1-5017-3079-5. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctv941wjn.5. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of August 2023 ( link) By 1857, Foote was conducting experiments on static electricity, which she called "electrical excitation". The studies were designed to test the moisture content and which gases in the air could generate static electricity. [82] She used an air pump with limited power to adjust the air pressure in a glass tube about two feet long and three inches in diameter and sealed at the ends with brass caps. [83] Attached to one cap was a gold leaf electrometer, which allowed her to measure electrical charges [77] and the other cap was attached to the pump. [83] Vacuuming out the atmospheric air, she replaced it with oxygen, hydrogen, and CO 2, as well as dry and damp air to test their effect upon the electrical charge. [77] [83] By expanding or compressing air, Foote noted that the moisture content was changed, which in turn affected the amount of static electricity that could be generated. She was working from a hypothesis that electric charges and fluctuations in atmospheric pressure might explain the Earth's magnetic field and polarity, which was later shown by other scientists not to be the case. [84] Mitchell, Jeff (May 10, 2018). "Science Knows No Gender: In Search of Eunice Foote Who 162 Years Ago Discovered the Principal Cause of Global Warming". The Current. Santa Barbara, California. Archived from the original on January 14, 2022 . Retrieved December 28, 2021. Kelly, Ian. Mr Foote's Other Leg: Comedy, tragedy and murder in Georgian London, 2012. Picador; later adapted as a play under the same title

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Death Registry: Lenox, Massachusetts". FamilySearch. Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts State Archives. September 29, 1888. p.47. line #35 . Retrieved July 8, 2022. age: 69 y 1 mo 12 d; residence: Lennox & Brooklyn, New York; parents: Isaac & Thirza R. Newton Foote's paper was abbreviated and published in the American Journal of Science and Arts and the Philosophical Magazine. The Philosophical Magazine had rejected publication of her first paper in favor of reprinting Elisha's 1856 work. [82] The article about Foote's findings published in The New-York Daily Times on August 18, 1857, [88] [Notes 6] praised her work, claiming that her findings had been "never heretofore proven", [88] although in fact, they confirmed the ideal gas law, published in 1834. She proved that adiabatic heating or cooling, or changes in temperature that occur without the addition or removal of heat, is the result of changing pressure. Temperature changes alter the vapor pressure in the air, which in turn, impacts the generation of static electricity. [89] Inventions [ edit ] Foote's paper-making machine, 1864 During the Second World War, both Charles and Ronald left to fight for their country and the shop was left in the safe hands of Fred Della Porta, then Sales Director of Premier Drums. Following the bombing of the Hornsey Road premises, the shop was moved in 1946 to 40 Rupert Street, Soho in Central London, close to Premier’s office and showroom at 8 Golden Square. So began a long association between Foote’s and Premier Drums.

Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory (1976). The Formation of the American Scientific Community: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848–60. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-00419-3. Passport Applications: Vol. 233 July 14–24, 1862". FamilySearch. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. July 21, 1862. NARA Microfilm Series M1372, Roll 108, images=1242–1245 . Retrieved July 7, 2022. (subscription required) In 2022, the American Geophysical Union instituted the Eunice Newton Foote Medal for Earth-Life Science in her honoUr to recognise outstanding scientific research. What is the greenhouse effect? Ronald L. Numbers' review of the article singled out the fact that of the 2,200 members of the AAAS before 1860 only four were women and Eunice, who was a nonmember, was the only woman who had presented a paper. [112]

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Tyndall, John (1859). "Note on the Transmission of Radiant Heat through Gaseous Bodies". Proceedings of the Royal Society. London: Royal Society. 10: 37–39. Bibcode: 1859RSPS...10...37T. ISSN 0370-1662. JSTOR 111604. OCLC 5552091876 . Retrieved July 11, 2022. Samuel Foote (January 1720 – 21 October 1777) was a British dramatist, actor and theatre manager. He was known for his comedic acting and writing, and for turning the loss of a leg in a riding accident in 1766 to comedic opportunity.

Invention by Mrs. Judge Foote" (PDF). The Saratogian. Vol.16, no.12. Saratoga Springs, New York. March 12, 1868. p.3, column 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 10, 2022 . Retrieved July 10, 2022. Established in 1920 at 232 Hornsey Road London and founded by Charles Ernest Foote, Footes supplied and manufactured drums and percussion (alongside woodwind and brass) instruments. In 1924, Ronald E Foote joined and began to market the ‘REF’ series of snare drums which included innovative features such as a parallel snare and internal damper. Footes – Hornsey RoadWikimedia Commons Eunice Newton Foote’s signed name on the Declaration of Sentiments, right below Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s. Among the 68 women signatories was also the name of Eunice Newton Foote, a young woman born in Goshen, Connecticut, raised in Bloomfield, New York, who was married to judge and mathematician Elisha Foote, had two daughters named Mary and Augusta, and was a friend and neighbour of Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Seneca Falls. Like the other 99 signatories, Eunice Foote deserves to be remembered for having been instrumental in advancing a cause so necessary for social progress at a time when the struggle for women’s equality was seen as an extravagance, a danger, or merely a waste of time. A descendant of Newton and pioneer of environmental science Returning to London, Foote's financial situation was still quite poor. After renting the Haymarket theatre and revising The Minor into a three-act version (up from the two-act version presented in Dublin), the play opened in London. Doran remarks that while " The Minor failed in Dublin, very much to the credit of an Irish audience, [...] they condemned it on the ground of its grossness and immorality[,]" English society, nevertheless, while hearing condemnations of the play, filled the theatres. [23] The play played for full houses for 38 nights. [24] Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1887). "Foote, Elisha" (PDF). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. Vol.II: Crane-Grimshaw. New York, New York: D. Appleton & Company. p.495. OCLC 906067060.