SQUEEGEE
Updated 04-May-2020.
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The Kakeya needle problem (the squeegee approach): The Mathologer attacks the hundred-year-old Kakeya needle problem with his trusty squeegee: What is the smallest amount of area required to continuously rota…
South Street Squeegee: In the 20th century, people came to love their cars, so long as they could drive them on smooth, flat, clean asphalt. In rush hour traffic, cobblestones quickly lost their charm; Belgian blocks got…
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: a squeegee or squilgee is a tool with a flat, smooth rubber blade . it is used for cleaning and in printing . the earliest written references date from the mid-19 some squeegees are backed with a sponge which can soak up soapy water from a bucket . a deck-cleaning tool was “used in civil life to clean windows” by 1918 . the modern single-blade window cleaning squeegee was patented by Ettore Steccone in 1936 . it was made of lightweight brass with a very flexible and sharp rubber blade . professional window washer simple squeegees are made in various shapes for household use . straight strokes, either horizontally or vertically are normally much more efficient than “fanning” kits can include a telescoping pole chamois leather cloth works better for touch up than cloth or paper . squeegee can be held at slight angle relative to direction in which it is being moved . the world’s fastest window cleaner is Terry Burrows of south ockendon, Essex, who cleaned three standard 114.3-by-114.3-centimetre (45 in 45 in) office windows in 9.24 seconds the following are considered correct English terminologies, according to the [Canadian] Naval Terminology Standardization Committee . in the early twentieth century some cities in Europe and North America used horse-drawn machinery . in 1919 Kindling got a US patent for a design with “new and useful Improvements in Squeegee-Rollers” in 1914, William H. Connell explained that street cleaning was done in batteries of “two the need for supporting labour and foot was seen as a disadvantage . mechanical street cleaning devices were introduced as early as 1911 . screen-printing squeegees usually have much thicker blades . a squeegee is also used in photography printing on fabric to dry the photographic paper after it is washed . the earliest reference to a drying . in photography is an 1878 description by chem tennis courts sometimes have squeegees to help keep them dry and control the flow of water . small, hand-held plastic and rubber wedges with an edge formed as a blade are used in signwriting . the squeegee is currently on display at the Smithsonian . it is claimed comedian bill Hicks used the phrase “Squeezegee Your Third Eye” in his acts . “weege one possible origin of his pseudonym is that it refers to his skills as a darkroom assistant . such an assistant is sometimes called “squeegee boy” Retrieved July 25, 2016. Ross, J. (2009). Complete Printmaker. Free Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-4391-3509-9. Retrieved July 25, 2016. Chopra, K. L.; Das, S. R. (2013). Thin Film Solar Cells. Springer US. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-4899-0418-8. Retrieved July 25, 2016.