legelegel
08-02-2009, 06:58 PM
Can anyone answer it, especially you Mechanical Engineers out there? It involves the United States 46 Star flag. Personally, I'm having a hard time counting those stars on the wall.
Please note there is no middle row on any of the 46 Star US Flags that I know of. There are several versions of the US 46 Star Flag, and there is one that does have two middle rows of 8 Stars.
A 1903 Riddle?
A discrepancy in the date of this meeting is posed ...: There are 46 stars on the US flag, and after Oklahoma was made the 46th state in 1907, the 46-star flag flew officially from 1908 to 1912. At the time this photograph was supposedly take in 1903, the 45-star flag (official 1896-1908) had every other row as eight stars alternating with seven across, for six rows. The middle row here has eight, as does the center row in the 46-star flag.
This photograph was published three times by ASME, in its 1915 and 1980 history books and its centennial anniversary issue of the monthly magazine. The first issuance was captioned as "Past Presidents at a Council Meeting in Auditorium, 12 West 31st Street." The second issuance identified the many presidents at a 1903 Council meeting. The caption provided above uses names provided along the bottom of the photograph, as it is reprinted in the October 1980 issue of Mechanical Engineering.
Read more here: http://www.asme.org/Communities/History/ASMEHistory/1903_Council_Meeting_Photo.cfm
Please note there is no middle row on any of the 46 Star US Flags that I know of. There are several versions of the US 46 Star Flag, and there is one that does have two middle rows of 8 Stars.
A 1903 Riddle?
A discrepancy in the date of this meeting is posed ...: There are 46 stars on the US flag, and after Oklahoma was made the 46th state in 1907, the 46-star flag flew officially from 1908 to 1912. At the time this photograph was supposedly take in 1903, the 45-star flag (official 1896-1908) had every other row as eight stars alternating with seven across, for six rows. The middle row here has eight, as does the center row in the 46-star flag.
This photograph was published three times by ASME, in its 1915 and 1980 history books and its centennial anniversary issue of the monthly magazine. The first issuance was captioned as "Past Presidents at a Council Meeting in Auditorium, 12 West 31st Street." The second issuance identified the many presidents at a 1903 Council meeting. The caption provided above uses names provided along the bottom of the photograph, as it is reprinted in the October 1980 issue of Mechanical Engineering.
Read more here: http://www.asme.org/Communities/History/ASMEHistory/1903_Council_Meeting_Photo.cfm