[ARC5] "Bowden" cables.

[Jay Coward]

And the cable that fits nothing is "Bedouin"
Jay



-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
To: kgordon2006 <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>; ARC5 <ARC5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tue, Mar 26, 2013 12:02 pm
Subject: Re: [ARC5] "Bowden" cables.



---- Original Message ----- 
rom: "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
o: <ARC5 at mailman.qth.net>
ent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:35 AM
ubject: [ARC5] "Bowden" cables.

I believe that the original spelling for that was 
"Bowduin". I believe it is
 French.

 This is probably another example of my being "a walking 
 encyclopedia of
 useless information"... as one of my highschool teachers 
 called me...

 Kenneth G. Gordon W7EKB
     Or Bowdoin or something else.  There is an article on 
he thing at:
ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowden_cable
    Turns out to be pretty common, used on bicycles and as 
able releases for camera shutters.
    According to this article the name comes from the 
nventor but he was British so who knows how the name was 
riginally spelled.  English tends to adopt all sorts of 
oreign words and names often changed a bit to make them 
asier to get an English speaker's tongue around.  Then 
here are the mis-spellings, either accidental or 
eliberate, for instance the military use of _bristo_ for 
ristol and _aline_ for align, the latter, I think, some 
ort of attempt at simplified spelling for ill educated 
eople.  I am not drawing a blank (someone here will know) 
n the fellow who promoted simplified English, particularly 
etting rid of ough, for example thru for through. I still 
ee this occasionally and it always makes me cringe.  Of 
ourse, ough was something that disappeared in British 
pelling but was brought back about the time of the American 
evolution.  Same with color/colour and similar words.  Not 
uch of this has anything to do with military radios but I 
uspect people who are interested in them and their history 
re also interested in a lot of other stuff.

-
ichard Knoppow
os Angeles
B6KBL
ickburk at ix.netcom.com 
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