Comments on: Can your designs help the other 90% of the planet? http://blog.ponoko.com/2007/05/07/can-your-designs-help-the-other-90-of-the-planet/ The world's easiest making system Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:01:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Clarissa Barnes http://blog.ponoko.com/2007/05/07/can-your-designs-help-the-other-90-of-the-planet/comment-page-1/#comment-5837 Clarissa Barnes Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:42:03 +0000 http://www.ponoko.com/blog/2007/05/07/can-your-designs-help-the-other-90-of-the-planet/#comment-5837 I'm back again - just to clear up the fact that my husband, Gunnar Barnes, was working with ONLY Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service in BANGLADESH when he invented the treadle pump in 1980. He was also back in Bangladesh 1989-1992, at which time RDRS did collaborate with IDE. The description of the pump at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, as I understand it, was intended to say that the pump ON DISPLAY, came from the IDE program in Nepal, and was constructed in 2006. Thanks! Clarissa Barnes I’m back again – just to clear up the fact that my husband, Gunnar Barnes, was working with ONLY Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service in BANGLADESH when he invented the treadle pump in 1980. He was also back in Bangladesh 1989-1992, at which time RDRS did collaborate with IDE.

The description of the pump at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, as I understand it, was intended to say that the pump ON DISPLAY, came from the IDE program in Nepal, and was constructed in 2006.

Thanks!

Clarissa Barnes

]]> By: Clarissa Barnes http://blog.ponoko.com/2007/05/07/can-your-designs-help-the-other-90-of-the-planet/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Clarissa Barnes Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:59:03 +0000 http://www.ponoko.com/blog/2007/05/07/can-your-designs-help-the-other-90-of-the-planet/#comment-116 Thank you for your kind remarks about the bamboo treadle pump. I would just like to mention, for the record, that my husband, Gunnar Barnes, was working for the Lutheran World Federation program in Bangladesh (Rangpur/Dinajpur Rural[previously Rehabilitation] Service) when he came up with the treadle pump. IDE came along later and did a great job of marketing it in Bangladesh, and introducing it to other countries. Other groups, like Enterprise Works, have also been working with the pump. Many modifications to the basic design have been made along the way. The original pump did include a smaller cylinder for wells, a bigger one for lifting from open water, and a spout for household use. No patent was taken out at the time of invention, so as to not inhibit all the small local shops who were turning out the mild-steel cylinders and help the spread. And it has spread! Thanks for the chance to comment! Thank you for your kind remarks about the bamboo treadle pump.

I would just like to mention, for the record, that my husband, Gunnar Barnes, was working for the Lutheran World Federation program in Bangladesh (Rangpur/Dinajpur Rural[previously Rehabilitation] Service) when he came up with the treadle pump. IDE came along later and did a great job of marketing it in Bangladesh, and introducing it to other countries.

Other groups, like Enterprise Works, have also been working with the pump. Many modifications to the basic design have been made along the way. The original pump did include a smaller cylinder for wells, a bigger one for lifting from open water, and a spout for household use.

No patent was taken out at the time of invention, so as to not inhibit all the small local shops who were turning out the mild-steel cylinders and help the spread. And it has spread!

Thanks for the chance to comment!

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