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Evolution Of The Golf Shoe
To be sure, other inventions have progressed more impressively than the golf shoe. Airplanes and automobiles, for instance, or the modern computer. That said, be grateful the golf boot is an extinct species.
You can thank Field and Flint for that. In 1923, the company took William Park's patented, 1917 version of the golf boot, lopped off the top and voila – the American golf shoe was born. Not just any shoe, mind you, but the FootJoy golf shoe.
Name ring a bell?
Actually, golf-specific footwear dates to at least 1857, when "The Golfer's Manual," a Scottish publication, referred to shoes "roughed with small nails or sprigs" that enabled golfers to "march comfortably and safely over the most slippery ground that can be turned out by the meridian sun in the dog days."
(That same year, the Burt and Packard Shoe Company was founded in Brockton, Mass. It would later become, you guessed it, Field and Flint.)
In 1891, the removable metal spike was born, to the chagrin of greenskeepers everywhere. Not to mention golfers, who sometimes felt the prongs poking through their heavy soles. Talk about a death march.
Skip forward to 1927, when Field and Flint's FootJoy was named the official shoe of the very first U.S. Ryder Cup team, helmed by the fashionable Walter Hagen. Still, the stylish spikes of Johnston & Murphy were preferred by statement-making country clubbers in the Roaring '20s.
In 1940, FootJoy introduced its first line of ladies shoes. Unfortunately, there was little to distinguish them from those made for men. The decade also saw the rise of FootJoy and Charles Eaton – later known as Etonic – as the leading brands among golf professionals and amateurs.
Not much happened over the coming decades, as golfers were content to wear Oxford-style shoes and manufacturers were happy to crank them out. Finally, in 1970, R&D caught up with the times and developed rubber soles for shoes – a quantum leap in comfort and flexibility. Etonic would pioneer waterproof treated leather, another important innovation, in the 1980s.
The next decade brought the golf shoe ever closer to its athletic cousins built for tennis, jogging and basketball. Breathable fabrics and lightweight polymers replaced thicker, heavier materials and made golf shoes more comfortable and durable than ever.
As the 20th century turned, the metal spike met its demise in the form of the plastic cleat -- to the delight of greenskeepers everywhere. Companies that had long dominated the athletic shoe trade, like Nike and adidas, applied their existing technologies to golf shoes and made a serious dent in the market share of the entrenched manufacturers.
The increased competition sparked an explosion of innovation as companies jockeyed to make shoes ever lighter, more comfortable and – no small step – more aesthetically varied. Today, consumers can choose styles ranging from conventional saddle oxfords to golf shoes that resemble athletic models, or even sandals.
And female golfers no longer are stuck with manly footwear.
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Ground outlet to copper baseboard heater pipe?
Hello,
I rent an old house that does not have ground to any of the outlets. All outlets are 2 prong and not 3 prong.
I really only need sufficient grounding in one bedroom housing computer equipment. House is heated by copper baseboard heaters with a boiler downstairs.
My question is, can I ground a outlet directly to the copper baseboard pipe so I have a grounded outlet? I was reading and it sounds like a GFI outlet only provides short protection and not surge/spike protection which is what I need.
Thanks!
Brad
You can as long as it is grounded at the boiler . often times it isn't or has lost some connection to ground .
I would check to make sure the pos terminal is actually pos (the smaller or shorter slot. using a AC volt meter and grounding to the pipe. grounding to a water pipe can and often does cause the pipe to corrode quickly then you have a water leak to deal with.
being a rental house I
myself I would use a GFI outlet and a 2 prong plug with a short cord 3 wire (at least 2 ft) a plastic receptacle box . Connect the green and white wires at the plugs silver or wide terminal (assuming the wall outlet is wired right reverse if not) and the black wire to the yellow terminal . wire the GFI as per instructions green to ground white to common silver term and blk to feed in . This should get you a protected circuit for shorts now get a surge protector and plug it into the GFI . The common and ground are tied together at the meter
The surge is supposed to dump the overload voltage into the ground until it burns up or the overload ends , When the GFI senses the pos voltage and shuts off the circuit on both common and pos saving the surge protector and an added protection for the computer
And the nice thing with this set-up is when you move it goes with you and you can put a three prong plug on instead of the two and still be able to have the GFI protection
Spike Mendelsohn: 2010 National Book Festival