7-Ring Binder Mystery...
Aug. 31st, 2017 12:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pheloniusfriarWell, I have received some emails back from some of the organizations I have written to trying to track down the origins of the 7-ring binder system. Both answers were quite sincere and very helpful in their own ways. The first was from Jeppesen:
Unfortunately, after speaking with my colleagues and management, we were unable to come up with an answer as to where one would locate history of the 7 ring binder system. There’s also no one within the company that we were able to speak with that would know who/where to answer the questions.
It is pretty cool that they asked around! The second was from the Curator at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum:
I must say I have no idea of where one could find information on the history of binders.
They did, however, suggest a couple of potential avenues for further research:
https://www.nacacollectors.com/contact.aspx
http://www.ephemerasociety.org/contact.html
So maybe I'm not at a dead end, but I was hoping for a "oh, it was developed for the biffletron program of the US worms in space initiative of 1937... everybody knows that" answer ;).
A friend pointed out to me that these posts are public and I may be known in the future as that nutbar guy and the 7-ring binder thing. History can be so unkind, lol.
I played this on my show yesterday instead of the Cohen original (the song had been requested by my guest, Dr. David W.O. Rogers, a medical physicist specializing in making sure the models used for radiation treatment of cancers correspond to the way it really affects humans when used). I got his go ahead for the substitution before I did it, although he commented that the visual image of a 7 foot clown singing a song so powerful and doing it so well was troublingly incongruous. Fyi, all my shows are available "on demand" for about a year after they air.
Edit: Heh, just visited the nacacollectors site... I was thinking National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, which became NASA), not the North American Collectibles Association. Oh, well, NACA (the NACA/NASA one) may very well be the source of the system... who knows. I will check out the collectibles societies, they may have a subject matter expert on binders ;).
Unfortunately, after speaking with my colleagues and management, we were unable to come up with an answer as to where one would locate history of the 7 ring binder system. There’s also no one within the company that we were able to speak with that would know who/where to answer the questions.
It is pretty cool that they asked around! The second was from the Curator at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum:
I must say I have no idea of where one could find information on the history of binders.
They did, however, suggest a couple of potential avenues for further research:
https://www.nacacollectors.com/contact.aspx
http://www.ephemerasociety.org/contact.html
So maybe I'm not at a dead end, but I was hoping for a "oh, it was developed for the biffletron program of the US worms in space initiative of 1937... everybody knows that" answer ;).
A friend pointed out to me that these posts are public and I may be known in the future as that nutbar guy and the 7-ring binder thing. History can be so unkind, lol.
I played this on my show yesterday instead of the Cohen original (the song had been requested by my guest, Dr. David W.O. Rogers, a medical physicist specializing in making sure the models used for radiation treatment of cancers correspond to the way it really affects humans when used). I got his go ahead for the substitution before I did it, although he commented that the visual image of a 7 foot clown singing a song so powerful and doing it so well was troublingly incongruous. Fyi, all my shows are available "on demand" for about a year after they air.
Edit: Heh, just visited the nacacollectors site... I was thinking National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, which became NASA), not the North American Collectibles Association. Oh, well, NACA (the NACA/NASA one) may very well be the source of the system... who knows. I will check out the collectibles societies, they may have a subject matter expert on binders ;).
