I lost my original, but here is what I remember:
Famous detective. Sherlock Holmes
Famous explorer: Sir Edmund Hillary
And some wag asked why Sir Edmund climbed all of those mountains? He was
looking from new places to put his bees.
Famous movie star:
Henry Fonda (who wrote letters to the American Bee Journal)
Peter Fonda, who portrayed a beekeeper in this year's critically acclaimed
movie, Ulyee's Gold.
Famous Ship Captain: (One of the big passenger ships that sank - can't
remember how to spell it, starts with L) I remember joking that he
obviously didn't go down with the ship and got a spam that ship's captains
are the last to depart, nothing says they have to go down with the ship.
Oldest record of a beekeeper (appears to be a young woman):
Cave painting in La Arana Spain, believed to be 8000 yrs old.
Ancient Greek and Roman beekeepers (writers, philosophers).
Greek: Aristotle (writes about bees, but didn't know some basics of
biology, suggesting he did not directly observer bees)
Roman: The following wrote about the "commercial side of the business"
Cato, Varro, Columella, and Palladius.
Inventors:
This could go on for pages, but some of the equipment that we currently use
is of relatively recent origin:
Revd Dr. H.C.J. Dzierzon, Silesia, father of modern central European
beekeeping,
91811-1906)
Lorenzo Lorrain Langstroth, USA, modern beekeeping practices, 1852,
Langstroth Hive
Johannes Mehring, Germany, 1857, comb foundation
Major Hruschka, Austria, 1865, extractor
Moses Quinby, USA, 1866, large frame leading to Dadant frame
1875, modern smoker
Abbe Collin, France, 1865, queen excluder
E.C. Porter, USA, 1891, bee escape
Charles Dadant family (Charles (1817-1902) moved to the USA from France).
The family holds numerous patents, including crimp wired foundation.
Elton J. Dyce, USA, 1935, Dyce process to produce granulated honey.
Jerry J. Bromenshenk, Ph.D.
Director, DOE/EPSCoR & Montana Organization for Research in Energy
The University of Montana-Missoula
Missoula, MT 59812-1002
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel: 406-243-5648
Fax: 406-243-4184
http://www.umt.edu/biology/more
http://www.umt.edu/biology/bees
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