{"id":495,"date":"2017-01-02T16:53:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T16:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=495"},"modified":"2017-01-02T16:53:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T16:53:20","slug":"macintosh-and-the-google-doodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Macintosh and the Google Doodle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_496\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/charles-macintoshs-250th-birthday-5118142079565824-hp2x.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-496\" class=\"size-full wp-image-496\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/charles-macintoshs-250th-birthday-5118142079565824-hp2x.gif\" alt=\"The Google Doodle marking the 250th birthday of Charles Macintosh.\" width=\"900\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/charles-macintoshs-250th-birthday-5118142079565824-hp2x.gif 900w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/charles-macintoshs-250th-birthday-5118142079565824-hp2x-300x131.gif 300w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/charles-macintoshs-250th-birthday-5118142079565824-hp2x-768x335.gif 768w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/charles-macintoshs-250th-birthday-5118142079565824-hp2x-624x272.gif 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Google Doodle marking the 250th birthday of Charles Macintosh.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On 29 December 2016, Google marked the 250th birthday of William Macintosh&#8217;s nephew, Charles, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/doodles\/charles-macintoshs-250th-birthday\">Google Doodle<\/a>. Charles (1766\u20131843) was the inventor of the fabric waterproofing process that gave rise to the eponymous Macintosh (later Mackintosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/culturalinstitute\/beta\/theme\/SwLSEIbM4qLrIg\">coat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In my research on William, Charles is significant insofar as he was the subject of a useful\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=yd0AAAAAMAAJ\">privately printed biography<\/a>, written by his\u00a0son George, that contains, as <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=yd0AAAAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA159\">an appendix<\/a>, a short account of\u00a0William&#8217;s life. This account is based, in part, on family correspondence that is now lost and is particularly valuable in fleshing out William&#8217;s\u00a0period of exile in Germany towards\u00a0the end of his life. Had William&#8217;s nephew not found fame through his invention, it is unlikely that any of the valuable biographical detail concerning William&#8217;s life would have been recorded in this way.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014 I <a href=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=121\">visited Charles&#8217;s grave<\/a> at Glasgow Cathedral with his descendent, Deirdre Grieve (who was kind enough to alert me to the Google Doodle).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 29 December 2016, Google marked the 250th birthday of William Macintosh&#8217;s nephew, Charles, with a Google Doodle. Charles (1766\u20131843) was the inventor of the fabric waterproofing process that gave rise to the eponymous Macintosh (later Mackintosh) coat. In my research on William, Charles is significant insofar as he was the subject of a useful\u00a0privately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}