User:Leonard G.

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A selected image from my contributions - for the week of June 8thTrolley bus insulated poles and pull-ropes
A selected image from my contributions -
for the week of June 8th
Trolley bus insulated poles and pull-ropes
This user lives in the
San Francisco Bay Area.


This user is a member of WikiProject San Francisco
Bay Area.


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For your high quality photos and breath-taking panoramas, I award you this Photographer's Barnstar. •Zhatt• 17:39, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
For your high quality photos and breath-taking panoramas, I award you this Photographer's Barnstar. •Zhatt• 17:39, July 29, 2005 (UTC)


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[edit] Favorite quotes:

  • "The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry"[1]
  • "[Leonard], you worry too much! " [2]
  • "Don't worry - be happy." [3]
  • "What, me worry? " [4]
  • "Don't worry, my dog found the chainsaw " [5]


  1. William F. Buckley, Jr.
  2. Grandmaster Byong Hong Yu, my taekwando master.
  3. Meher Baba - spiritual leader of my late and beloved next door neighbors.
  4. Alfred E. Neuman - the gapped toothed mascot of Mad Magazine, a periodical reflective of (and reenforcing) the cultural reaction against post-war conformity that ultimately enabled the massive protests against the Viet Nam War and the downfall of United States Presidents Lyndon Baines Johnson and (as a consequence of the Watergate scandal and the bombing of Cambodia) Richard Millhouse Nixon.
  5. From the animated film Lilo & Stitch


A recently refined and completed major articleHayward Fault Zone
A recently refined and completed major article
Hayward Fault Zone
A recent complete article - Chinese copy method
A recent complete article - Chinese copy method
A recent stub (a work in progress) - Trains in art
A recent stub (a work in progress) - Trains in art
A recent complete minor articleMachine Age
A recent complete minor article
Machine Age
A recent complete minor articleUtah Road 400 with related creation of the minor articles Cottonwood Canyon, Utah and Grosvenor Arch and contributions to Kodachrome Basin State Park
A recent complete minor article
Utah Road 400
with related creation of the minor articles Cottonwood Canyon, Utah and Grosvenor Arch and contributions to Kodachrome Basin State Park
A recent complete minor articleSolar tracker
A recent complete minor article
Solar tracker
A featured article San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge(with User:SamuelWantman)
A featured article
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
(with User:SamuelWantman)

[edit] Topics of interest and some knowledge

  • Aviation - light aircraft and sailplanes.
  • Battery electric automobiles and light trucks and their construction and conversion from ICE vehicles.
  • Energy conservation and alternative sources.
  • Mount Diablo (in central CA).
  • Photovoltaic on-grid (net metering) household solar power.
  • Roof water recovery and storage for two season climate regions.
  • Top bar hives for beekeeping in developed countries.
  • U.S. Naval aircraft of the 1950's and 1960's. Have historic info and pictures.

I am willing to take and submit requested photographs in my area (greater San Francisco Bay area and Contra Costa county).

[edit] Did you know... main page featured new articles

Steam clock
13 April 2006 - subsquently expanded by others

Table bridge
7 September 2006
(with User:Carlos0253)

[edit] Major articles created or with substantial expansion or rewrite

The fireboat Guardian
The fireboat Guardian
Red-cyan anaglyph image
Red-cyan anaglyph image

[edit] Minor articles created or enhanced with substantial expansion or rewrite

At Wuhan
At Wuhan
Pressure gauge - Indicator Side
Pressure gauge - Indicator Side
Mechanical Side
Mechanical Side
Mechanical Details
Mechanical Details
A moon bridge
A moon bridge
A step-stone bridge
A step-stone bridge
Slotted waveguide antenna (highlighted)
Slotted waveguide antenna (highlighted)

[edit] Works in progress:

A floatplane
A floatplane

[edit] Major contributions:

View of Mt. Diablo and part of the Diablo Valley from Dinosaur Hill Park
View of Mt. Diablo and part of the Diablo Valley from Dinosaur Hill Park


Handcar
Handcar

[edit] Substantial article enhancements:

The West Wind, a marble sculpture
The West Wind, a marble sculpture

[edit] Disambiguation enhancements:

  • Loge (theater seating)
  • Slip (woman's clothing, ceramics, aeronautics)
  • Sundowner (vehicle, herder, resthome resident)

[edit] Image with associated text contributions to the following articles:

Diagram of a Crookes tube apparatus
Diagram of a Crookes tube apparatus
Schematic cross section of a caisson
Schematic cross section of a caisson
Diana and Pomona grace a Beaux Arts facade
Diana and Pomona grace a Beaux Arts facade
A garden pool at the mansion Filoli
A garden pool at the mansion Filoli
Imperial roof decoration
Imperial roof decoration
Jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Youth learn to sail at the Mystic Seaport
Youth learn to sail at the Mystic Seaport
Platybelodon skeleton, mounted, Wuhan, China
Platybelodon skeleton, mounted, Wuhan, China
Shay locomotive accessories annotated
Shay locomotive accessories annotated
Vancouver's 9 O'Clock Gun
Vancouver's 9 O'Clock Gun

[edit] Minor contributions

[edit] Text added to image descriptions

Image:Forbidden_Planet_poster.jpg

[edit] English translations of technical diagrams found on commons

Sewage treatment process diagram

Movie projector display sequence

Prague Astronomical Clock functions

Melde's Experiment

[edit] Quotation contributions:

[edit] Some more images

Bumpass Hell in Lassen Volcanic National Park
Bumpass Hell in Lassen Volcanic National Park
Vancouver's Urban Skyline
Vancouver's Urban Skyline
Toronto's Urban Skyline
Toronto's Urban Skyline
A concert of Tang Dynasty Music at Wuhan
A concert of Tang Dynasty Music at Wuhan
Cruising the Kiel canal
Cruising the Kiel canal
A riverboat of the Yangtze river
A riverboat of the Yangtze river
Personal Weapons at the Great Wall of China
Personal Weapons at the Great Wall of China

[edit] Featured selected images gallery by week

(Images include those uploaded directly to Commons, but all have been incorporated into English Wikipedia articles)

[edit] 2005

Sept 11th
A floatplane
Sept 18th
NYC Public Library
Sept 25th
A Shay locomotive
Oct 2nd
A Beaux Arts façade
Oct 9th
A garden at Filoli
Oct 16th
Jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Oct 23rd
The customs house at Monterey, California
Oct 30th
A nian at the Ming Dynasty Tombs
Nov 6th
A schematic for electric vehicle conversion
Nov 13th
A bridge taxononmy
Nov 20th
Ancient and modern at Wuhan
Nov 27th
San Francisco War Memorial Opera House
Dec 4th
Father Duffy monument
December 11th
Steam engine model
December 18th
A novelty battery electric vehicle
December 25th
The West Wind, a marble sculpture

[edit] 2006

January 1st
The West Wind, a marble sculpture
January 8th
Reproduction personal weapons
January 15th
A Bogen enlarger
January 29th
A Caisson (engineering)
February 4thth
A relay
February 11th
An inertial switch
February 18th
A surface supplied diver
February 25th
Cloisonne headress
March 11th
A step-stone bridge
March 19th
View of Mt. Diablo and the Diablo Valley
March 26th
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall interior
April 2nd
A Moon Bridge
April 9th and 16th
Great Wall of China
April 23rd
A Danish offshore wind farm
April 3rd - May 21st
A concert of Tang Dynasty Music
May 28th
The Navajo Bridges
June 4th
A view of Utah Road 400
June 11th
A weigh bridge
June 18th
Antique snow coach
June 25th
The Vermilion Cliffs
July 2nd
The Rocky Mountaineer
July 9th
An Ariel Atom sports car
July 16th
Erie Canal locks
July 23rd
VIA Rail Dining car interior
July 30th
Solar tracker headworks detail
August 6th
VIA Rail locomotives and cars
August 13th
Portrait sculpture of Robert Fleming Gourlay
August 20th
A model yacht
August 27th
Highway 24
Seismic retrofit
September 3rd
A California Condor
September 10th
Paleoseismology pit
September 17th
Paleoseismology surface, annotated
September 24th
Wrightspeed X1 battery electric vehicle
October 1st
Painted Desert, Arizona
October 8th
Sulphur piles at Vancouver, British Columbia
October 15th
Railroad hand car
October 22nd
Primitive railcar
October 29th
railcar
November 5thth
Slotted waveguide antenna
November 12thth
Gastown
steam clock
November 19th
Vancouver's
9 O'Clock Gun
November 26th
Fossilized hadrosaur (partial)
December 3rd
Kodachrome Basin State Park
December 10th
Eyebar detail of a truss bridge
December 17th
Laced ties and struts
December 24th
Qing dynasty Qilin
December 31th
Grand Canyon Railway locomotive

[edit] 2007

January 7th
Falco sparverius (American Kestrel)
January 14th
Sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh
January 21st
Penjing at Wuhan
January 28th
Fountains at Peterhof
Feburary 4th
Chapel at Peterhof
Feburary 11th
A music room at Peterhof
Feburary 18th
Danish resistance movement armored car
Feburary 25th
Terra cotta decoration
March 4th
Cyclotron magnet
March 11th – April 8th
Great Wall of China - Storehouse
April 15th
Steering rack in Wrightspeed X1
April 22th
fresco at Knossos
April 27th
Unique grapevine training (Santorini)
May 6th
Town and caldera, Santorini
May 13th
Detail of marble repair, Parthenon
May 20th
Late Cycladic gold ibex sculpture
May 27th
Acropolis of Athens at dawn
June 3rd
Tankship Clipper Lady in drydock
June 10th
Early Cycladic figurines on isle of Santorini
June 17th
Cycladic terra cotta fire dogs
June 24th
Cycladic terra cotta oven
July 1st
Volcanic ash cavity cast
July 8th
Happy Hippo amphibious bus
July 15th
United States Military Academy at West Point
July 22nd
Ruins of Bannerman's Arsenal near West Point, N.Y.
July 29th
Terra cotta utilitarian objects from Akrotiri
August 5th
A lock of the Erie Canal at the Niagara Escarpment
August 12th
Case backhoe loader used for pipe transport to an excavated ditch
August 19th
Crawler-backhoe with a narrow sheepsfoot roller
August 26th
Loader-excavator with concrete pipe
September 2nd
SkycamHD video suspension unit
September 9th
Model showing operation of a ship's capstan
September 16th
A stressed ribbon footbridge
September 23rd
Smart Fortwo instruments
A deck Truss railroad bridge over the Erie Canal
October 7th
A capstan on a sailing ship
October 14th
A Streamline Moderne building (1937)
October 21st-28th
Streamline Moderne judge's tower (1937)
November 4th
Bumpass Hell in Lassen Volcanic National Park
November 11th
Lava tube at Lava Beds National Monument
November 17th
California's third capitol building at Benecia
Restored California Senate chamber in the Benicia capitol
December 9th
Effigy of the Sun God Ah Kin
December 16th
Effigy image of Rain God Chaac
December 23rd
ZENN neighborhood electric vehicle
December 30th
ZENN neighborhood electric vehicle

[edit] 2008

January 6th
Dynasty EV neighborhood electric vehicle
January 13th
Dynasty EV (utility version)
January 20th
Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City
January 27th
Gridiron pendulum diagram
February 3rd
Radio control escapement (used ca. 1950-65)
February 10th
Imperial guardian lion (ca. 1886-1902)
February 17th
Imperial guardian lion (cub)
February 24th
Dynasty NEV utility model
March 2nd
Ariel Atom front suspension
March 9th
Acropolis of Athens
March 16th
Toxicodendron diversilobum
March 23rd
model yachts racing
March 30th
Cloisonné work in progress
April 6th
Kiel canal North Sea locks
April 13th
Stainless steel art deco sculpture
April 20th
An electric vehicle conversion
April 27th
An electric scooter
May 4thth
San Francisco's fireboat Phoenix
May 11thth
Anaglyph image stereogram
3D red_cyan glasses recommended for your viewing pleasure
May 18thth
Monochrome anaglyph image
3D red_cyan glasses recommended for your viewing pleasure
May 25th
Cyclotron "Dees"
May 31st
Trolley bus pole headworks