Global Foodsource Satellite Traditional Cache
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Global Foodsource Satellite
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Did you know…
It all started a little over a hundred years ago. In 1897, at the age of 23, Isaac Van Westenburge started his own business of delivering eggs and butter with a horse and buggy to local grocers in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Isaac wanted to help provide food for people in inventive ways. His first idea was to train his horses to deliver food to individuals in the community by pulling a buggy without a driver being on board. Unfortunately, Isaac lost several horses and buggies this way. His next idea was to have a large wagon with several farm animals riding on it (i.e. cows and chickens). This way, the wagon could be delivered to a homestead, and the patrons would milk the cows themselves for the freshest milk and they could retrieve eggs from the chicken’s nests for the freshest eggs. As you can imagine the wagon with its payload was quite a sight. This invention sadly posed an issue as to how to keep the animals well fed and the wagon free of animal waste.
It wasn’t until Ben Gordon came along, that the inventions became more sophisticated. Isaac was fond of Ben since he had the same inventive visions that he had, but more importantly, since Ben took an interest in his daughter and eventually married her. This, of course, in time led to Ben taking over the family business. Ben poured his heart into the business and he came up with many ideas. The one he thought would be the most promising was his invention of having some means of locating food for people worldwide. His invention was way before his time. He thought up a means of having an object in space that would search for food, and once it located it, a signal would be sent back to the earth to a receiver which could be used to direct an individual to the nearest food source. Amazingly, this invention sounds very much like the Global Positioning System (GPS) that Geocachers are so fond of today. His first satellite was called the Global Foodsource Satellite or GFS.
After finding a group of rouge rocket scientists to make his dream a reality, his first flagship satellite was launched March 23, 1921. Amazingly, it stayed in orbit. The only problem was that he was not able to prevent the satellite from wrongly identifying as food such objects as pinecones found in evergreen trees. After many months of testing, this glitch continued to bring about great dissatisfaction with the system, and many of the test markets quickly quit using it. Hence, after spending much of his life savings on the project, and not able to eliminate this flaw in his satellite, Ben abandoned the project and reentered into the grocery business that his father-in-law had started. He was still able to help people find food, but it would be at a discounted price. He opened his first store in 1942 with the name Gordon Food Service (GFS).
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