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Henry Blair (child Actor)
Henry Blair may refer to: * Henry Blair (child actor), featured star of Sparky's Magic Piano ''Sparky's Magic Piano'' is the second in a series of children’s audio stories featuring Sparky, an original character created for Capitol Records in 1947. (Sparky also appeared in comic books as a sidekick to Capitol’s other famous creation, ... * Henry Blair (inventor) (1807–1860), second African American inventor to receive a patent * Henry W. Blair (1834–1920), U.S. Representative and senator from New Hampshire See also * Harry Blair (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Blair, Henry ...
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Henry Blair (child Actor)
Henry Blair may refer to: * Henry Blair (child actor), featured star of Sparky's Magic Piano ''Sparky's Magic Piano'' is the second in a series of children’s audio stories featuring Sparky, an original character created for Capitol Records in 1947. (Sparky also appeared in comic books as a sidekick to Capitol’s other famous creation, ... * Henry Blair (inventor) (1807–1860), second African American inventor to receive a patent * Henry W. Blair (1834–1920), U.S. Representative and senator from New Hampshire See also * Harry Blair (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Blair, Henry ...
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Sparky's Magic Piano
''Sparky's Magic Piano'' is the second in a series of children’s audio stories featuring Sparky, an original character created for Capitol Records in 1947. (Sparky also appeared in comic books as a sidekick to Capitol’s other famous creation, Bozo the Clown.) Sparky is a little boy with an overactive imagination. His adventures involve inanimate objects which magically come to life and talk to him. List of recordings featuring Sparky *''Sparky And The Talking Train'' (1947) was Sparky's first adventure on Capitol Records. It was a fantasy story, without the musical or educational element which marked three of the following stories. *''Sparky's Magic Piano'' (recorded in Hollywood, October 1947; released 1948) became the best-known of all the Sparky stories. It was voiced by Henry Blair, and featured musical accompaniment by noted Hollywood studio and session pianist Ray Turner. *''Sparky's Music Mix-up'' (1949) was the last Sparky record to be voiced by Henry Blair, and fea ...
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Henry Blair (inventor)
Henry Blair (1807–1860) was the second African American inventor to receive a US patent. He was born in Glen Ross, Maryland, United States in 1807. His first invention was the Seed-Planter, patented October 14, 1834, which allowed farmers to plant more corn using less labor and in a shorter time. On August 31, 1836 he obtained a second patent for a cotton planter. This invention worked by splitting the ground with two shovel-like blades which were pulled along by a horse. A wheel-driven cylinder followed behind which dropped the seed into the newly plowed ground. Blair had been a successful farmer for years and developed the inventions as a means of increasing efficiency in farming."The Black Inventor On-line Museum." Accessed December 4, 2012. http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/henry-blair.html . In the patent records, Blair is listed as a "colored man," making this identification the only one of its kind in early patent records. Blair was illiterate, therefore he signed his ...
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Henry W
Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal (father of Portugal's first king) ** Prince Henry the Navigator, Infante of Portugal ** Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra (born 1949), the sixth in line to Portuguese throne * King of Germany **Henry the Fowler (876–936), first king of Germany * King of Scots (in name, at least) ** Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545/6–1567), consort of Mary, queen of Scots ** Henry Benedict Stuart, the 'Cardinal Duke of York', brother of Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was hailed by Jacobites as Henry IX * Four kings of Castile: **Henry I of Castile **Henry II of Castile **Henry III of Castile **Henry IV of Castile * Five kings of France, spelt ''Henri'' in Modern French since the Renaissance to italianize the name and to ...
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