On-line resources

<BODY BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" LINK="#FFCC99" ALINK="#FF9966" VLINK="#FF9966">  <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#CC3300" FACE="Arial" ><B>History & Homes of the Sunbeam One Design</B></FONT>     |   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="History Homes of the Sunbeam One Design"><B>home</B></A></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14">        <A HREF="id147.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Yachting Monthly"><IMG SRC="0430e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A>    <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14">        <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="04658020.png" border=0 width="600" height="2" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> On-line resources</div> <div> An increasing number of on-line resources are becoming available. This page is to illustrate same, especially where associated information helps to provide background information of interest to readers and related to Sunbeams or their owners' familiy history.</div> <bR> <div> For example, the  <A NAME="hon__evelyn_boscawen__family_history_refs_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >Hon. Evelyn Boscawen</FONT> recently purchased and restored <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="V21 Maranui (1924) "><I>Maranui.</I></A></FONT>  His family has a long and most interesting history, some of which is illustrated by news cuttings included in pages on this site.  Where appropriate, references are abbreviated, (hopefully remaining accurate!) and of as much interest to Sunbeam-orientated site visitors as casual, or chance visitors with specific interest in local, maritime or familiy history.</div> <bR> <div> The British Library Newspaper Library has commenced digitisation of selected microfilmed newspapers. At this stage, although 40,000 pages of five newspapers were scanned from microfilm, the purpose was to trial some extraordinary OCR software which has proved capable of intelligent and (97%) accurate character recognition.  For the first time, readers can view a newspaper page, select shaded articles, word-search articles, headers, subtiles and even advertisements, then preview the hits and see an <I>image</I> of each 'hit' - a boon which overcomes fears of misinterpretation by OCR software.</div> <bR> <div> At the moment, the  <A NAME="british_library_test_site"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#33FFFF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/">British Library site offering test searches</A></FONT> is quite limited, with five publications from selected years bewteen 1880 and 1922.  The trial was intended to illustrate how news was reported by different publications covering identical periods during which there were significant events.  </div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="my_particular_interest_is___telco_billing"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>My particular interest is to see if micropayments billed to user's telephone accounts could be the appropriate mechanism of cost-efficient, multi-currency billing for viewing or downloaing content <I>at nominal, photocopy rates</I>, to generate sustainable revenue for information providers.  If this proves to be the case, then the cost of digitising vast untapped resources of news (textual and graphc data) could be capitalised, <U>creating an accessible resource to a worldwide audience.</U> </div> <bR> <div> Results of a search for "<I>Falmouth</I>" included the following:</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="5f068070.jpg" border=0 width="360" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Reference to arrival of   <A NAME="1851___indefatigable_arrives_at_falmouth_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><I>Indefatigable </I></FONT>at Falmouth, in 1851</div> <div> [<I>Daily News</I>, 30 Aug. 1751. Courtesy of the British Library Newspaper Library]</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" > <A NAME="1851_reference_to_earl_falmouth__"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT>1851 reference to <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >Earl Falmouth</FONT>. (The Earldom ended in 1851)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="5f467a50.jpg" border=0 width="359" height="421" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I>Daily News</I>, 28 April, 1851, continued...</div> <div> <IMG SRC="5f568550.jpg" border=0 width="360" height="341" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 1841-51: <A HREF="id134_1851___the_earldom_became_extinct_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News Cuttings Falmouth">George Henry Boswawen</A> 2nd Earl, 5th Viscount Falmouth</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="1886_refs_to_evelyn_edward_boscawen_6th__racing__viscount"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >References to Evelyn Edward Boscawen,</FONT> 6th Viscount Falmouth</div> <div> <IMG SRC="5f26bb70.jpg" border=0 width="363" height="439" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I>Daily News</I> 1886 - Newmarket 1000 Guineas </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="5f668590.jpg" border=0 width="360" height="345" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I>Daily News,</I> 20 April, 1886</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Re-formatted composite of columns highlighting the remarkable  <A NAME="1886___record_of_6th_viscount_falmouth_s_jockey"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>record of the 6th Viscount Falmouth's jockey, Fred Archer.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="5f70c4e0.jpg" border=0 width="780" height="334" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I>Daily News,</I> 28 April, 1886. [Courtesy of the British Library Newspaper Library, and <A HREF="http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/archive/skins/bl/navigator.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/archive/">Olive Software's intelligent OCR & search trials</A>, 2001]</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="5f968460.jpg" border=0 width="360" height="326" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>  <A NAME="1886___fred_archer_at_madame_tussaud_s_in_lord"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>Fred Archer at Madame Tussaud's in Lord Falmouth's colours </div> <div> <I>News of the World, </I>22 November, 1886</div> <div> [Courtesy of the British Library Newspaper Library]</div> <bR> <bR> </BODY>