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   From: nonscrivetemi@pboxmix.winstonsmith.info   
      
   Bruce R. Robinson and his company are now pointing to a newspaper   
   story written by Jacques Kelly titled It's Belfort - for good measure!   
   Poor Jacques only wrote what somebody told me... he didn't check his   
   facts! He relied on somebody who had something to gain at his expense.   
      
   The story depicts yet another company president from the 1990s who   
   talked out his ass like the other company president from year 2001   
   going forward who boldly, but falsely claimed "The Wright Brothers   
   Relied on Us" when nothing could be further from the truth!   
      
   What is it about Belfort Instruments company presidents (plural) and a   
   Belfort owner named Bruce R. Robinson who talk out their asses   
   repeatedly with no definitive historical facts, files or archives to   
   back up their wild assertions?   
      
      
   For the record Mr. Robinson:   
      
   Here is what the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY (NMAH) at   
   12th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20560   
   notes:   
      
   JULIEN PIERRE FRIEZ PAPERS, 1887-1894, 1896-1898   
      
   Julien Pierre Friez (1852-1916) was born in France and came to the   
   United States at the age of 15. He worked with Robert Henning in   
   Ottawa, Illinois on telegraphy equipment, circa 1868; later he was a   
   foreman for Ottomar Mergentheler, circa 1880-1890. After leaving   
   Mergentheler, Friez moved to Baltimore where he set up Belfort   
   Laboratories and began a manufacture of scientific instruments. He   
   later acquired an interest in meteorology and did important work on   
   the   
   design and manufacture of meteorological recording instruments.   
      
   Reference: http://www.colby.edu/sts/97guide/sm_nmah.html   
      
      
   The Belfort/Friez weather company was not found in 1876 as reported   
   on Belfort's company website since Mr. Julian Friez never made it to   
   Baltimore to set up shop until sometime in the 1890s.   
      
   Mr. Robinson: WON'T YOU PLEASE STOP PUBLISHING YOUR LIES!!!   
      
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