The New World Calendar
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After a lifetime study of physics, ergonomics, politics, religion and calendars I have come to the conclusion that the next millennium deserves a new version of the old Gregorian, (formerly Julian), two thousand and forty six years old Roman calendar of Julius Caesar. He did mankind a great service in sorting out the chaos of calendars.
As we move into the 3rd Millennium where we can communicate at the speed of light, it seems appropriate that we take this opportunity to upgrade the calendar to fit modern standards, indeed we can simplify it considerably to ease its use in the computer driven decimal world.
In Caesar s time, clocks, books, electricity and speed of light communications did not exist. Even a century ago electricity was still a novelty. Few people would have favored changing the Calendar. Now it is different, rapid change is the norm, now is the time to do it.
In revising the calendar it was found that with a few simple changes it could be reduced from 336 pages of the 28 year cycle to a 1 page perpetual calendar, thus offering much in the way of economy. In fact this version is now so simple that small children will be able to memorize it so that for any date in the future it will be easy to forecast what day any date falls on.
I have been more than surprised at the enthusiasm with which people have greeted my new design of calendar. I had expected a lot of opposition. It has not happened.
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This book marks the Millenium! It contains the new simplified perpetual calendar that will replace the old 336 page Roman calendar of 2046 years, with one single permanent oage. If you want to give a friend a useful book forever, this is it. The new calendar will simplify all business and social life and even small children will be able to memorize it. This is a revolution in calendars. Designed by a rocket scientist born in the same English town as St. Bede, whose announcement in 730 A.D. gave rise to the Gregorian calendar. Coincidence? Certainly strange. No more Y2K problems! No more unanswered calls from our men Mars to an office on earth closed for the weekend! A calendar for the space age, the computer age, any age!
About the Author
ERIC P DONALD was "born near a green hill without a city wall"; i.e., on the southern boundary of Sunderland, N. E. England. Feb. 23rd 1930. Outside the house the snow lay deep. On the other side of the green hill, (Tunstall Hills) lay Washington, George Washington s ancestral home, now part of Sunderland. Sunderland is known for its 1000yr history of shipbuilding, glassmaking (Pyrex), coalmining and the introduction of railways.
The Venerable St Bede lived and died at the Saxon Church still standing at the mouth of the river Wear He created a great centre of learning for northern Europe. He wrote the first history of England. He also called for the change to The Roman Julian calendar in 730AD which led to the Gregorian version 850 years later.
The author attended Technical school for three years where he was top student in 1945. After surviving a two ton parachute mine explosion and fire bomb raid on his home, part of which he had turned into a photolab, he went on to attended Bede School to take the Oxford School Certificate. While there he was invited as an Air Cadet to accompany the King & Queen and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to South Africa. The following year he was invited to tour Canada with the RCAF. He was active in civic affairs, building the first postwar model of the town centre; also gliding, church choirs, model making ships and aircraft. His model Sunderland Flying Boat is in The Sunderland Museum. He built a lab onto his home where he grew tobacco for his father.
In 1948 he entered Durham University to read applied science, reviving the dormant Engineering Society with his lecture on Jet Engines. During summer vacations he fitted instruments in ships on the River Wear, 1948, (then the biggest shipbuilding centre in the World). He made tools at the Coles Mobile Crane factory in 1949, developed a successful Flame Detection apparatus from V2 rocket parts to help planes land in thick fog at The Royal aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, 1950.
In 1950 Britain & America entered the Korean War. He joined the Royal Air Force, Signals Branch, serving until 1952.
In 1953 he joined the Technical Office of The Fairey Aviation Co for six years lab testing and later stress analyzing parts of Gannett, FD1 & FD2 (the first jet to exceed 1000mph), the Gyrodyne, Ultra Light & Rotodyne jet helicopters. In 1959 he moved to The English Electric Co at Warton, near Preston to do R&D on the Lightning mach2 fighter, Canberra and TSR2 supersonic bomber where he was able to develop rapid test techniques for high temperature structures.
In 1964 he sailed for America, starting on Madison Ave as a management consultant but by 1966 he was working on Lockheed s SST & C5a. In 1967 he moved to the 747 at Boeing in Seattle after getting married to Juliet Allen in England. After successfully developing the designs of the 747 doors, floors, 40ft containers, flaps etc he moved to Grumman to analyze the two-dimensional, external compression, supersonic inlets of the F14 Tomcat.
Returning to England in 1970 to solve a few Airbus 300 problems, he later took his Masters degree in Air Transport Engineering at The College of Aeronautics, Cranfield. Appointed as Chief Stress Analyst to BAe. Guided Weapons in 1973 he developed a Metal Fatigue Detection System at home which gained him a Gold Medal from The Inst. of Patentees & Inventors, at The Royal Society for the Arts, London. This attracted world attention as the DC10 Chicago crash had just occurred. The British Govt., made a movie about the invention. Boeing has used the same principle to save hundreds of helicopters from fatigue failures.
Invited to join Douglas Aircraft in 1979 by Tom Swift the world & FAA expert on fatigue he stayed for many years, retiring in 1993. As a last fling he designed the F18E/F complex inlet.
Since "retiring" he divorced in 1995 and has formed Donald-Hathaway Associates with Madelyn Hathaway, consulting on quality, ergonomics, training, statistics. He has proposed a High Speed Monorail for America which is being studied, and has developed a new simplified business calendar (which has earned him a Nobel Prize nomination) to replace the 2000 year old Roman Calendar of Julius Caesar, which St Bede redesigned in 730AD. He has been considered for The Poet Laureate title. His hobbies include writing poetry (4 books), short stories (2 books), technical papers, music, ballroom dancing, archery, genealogy, photography & TV production.