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📌The Zulu Tribe🇿🇦

The Zulu tribe is one the largest and most influential ethnic groups in South Africa 🇿🇦. Originally part of the Nguni people, they broke away and formed their own kingdom.

Here are the late Zulu Kings and their first King and founder of Zulu tribe before King Shaka expanded it into a nation with great numbers of people. Wena weZulu🙌

𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗘𝗦 𝗦. 𝗟𝗘𝗪𝗜𝗦 𝗕𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗥 (1859–1926)

An African American inventor, who patented the friction heater. Baker was born into slavery on August 3, 1859, in Savannah, Missouri. His mother, Betsy Mackay, died when he was three months old, leaving him to be brought up by the wife of his owner, Sallie Mackay, and his father, Abraham Baker. He was the youngest of five children, Susie, Peter, Annie, and Ellen, all of whom were freed after the Civil War. Baker later received an education at Franklin College. His father was employed as an express agent, and once Baker turned fifteen, he became his assistant. Baker worked with wagons and linchpins, which sparked an interest in mechanical sciences. friction heater friction heater
Baker worked over the span of decades on his product, attempting several different forms of friction, including rubbing two bricks together mechanically, as well as using various types of metals. After twenty-three years, the invention was perfected in the form of two metal cylinders, one inside of the other, with a spinning core in the center made of wood, that produced the friction. Baker started a business with several other men to manufacture the heater. The Friction Heat & Boiler Company was established in 1904, in St. Joseph, with Baker on the board of directors. The company worked up to 136,000 dollars in capital, equal to nearly 6 million dollars in 2022.

During his patent application, Baker stated that the friction heat could be produced with any mode of power like wind, water and gasoline.

His device, according to him, was set to be the cheapest source of heat production at the time which made him win accolades such as ‘King of Clean Energy and ‘St. Joseph Negro Inventor.’ friction heater

“Mr. Baker claims that the particular mode of power used in creating the friction is not essential. It may be wind, water, gasoline, or any other source of energy.

“The most difficult part of the inventor’s assertions to prove is that his system will light or heat a house at about half the cost of methods now in use,” The Draftsman 1908.

After years of trials, his device was near-perfect at the time it was invented. Baker’s device was made up of two metal cylinders, with one inserted into the other. A wooden spinning core was put in the center to produce the friction.

Any notable newsreels hailed his invention. “On March 27, 1904, the New York Times’ edition identified Baker’s invention as a “Clever Negro Invention”. Other newspapers such as Daily Gazette and News-Press also published his story in 1904 indicating that his invention would “revolutionize the then heating systems.”

Baker then created a factory called The Friction Heat and Boiler Company in 1904 in St. Joseph with him as the head of board of directors.

His company employed 50 skilled and unskilled labour to produce more radiators and had about $136,000 in capital stocks.

At the time, Baker’s capital stock was a lot of money which made him an affluent and honorable man in his hometown. His loyalty to his employees made his business thrive albeit racial prejudice which sometimes posed as a threat to his finances, his business flourished.

Baker was the youngest of five children and got married in 1880 at age 21 to Carrie Carriger and they had a daughter, Lulu Belle Baker. On May 5, 1926, he died in his daughter’s home in St. Joseph.

Baker d.ied of pneumonia on May 5, 1926, in St. Joseph, Missouri.

📸 Photograph showing inventor Charles S.L Baker and his assistant demonstrating heating/radiator system.

Cc: It's important to be nice.
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The Deeper You Dig, The Darker It Becomes

This is Osiris, the founder and the first king of Egypt.
He was the one who brought his people into Egypt. He is the father of Horus, the brother of Seth, the brother and husband of Isis.
The greeks took the Egyptian methodology and worshipped him by changing his name into Aupis(Hades). later the Romans adopted him as one of their gods, changed his name into Dionysus and made him the god of healing.

He is originally Ethiopian, he came from deep south of where the Nile river originated.
The Greek historian Diodorus Siculus wrote this “The Ethiopians say that the Egyptians are settlers from among themselves and that Osiris was the leader of the settlement.
The customs of the Egyptians, they say, are for the most part Ethiopian, the settlers having preserved their old traditions."

he further stated “They say also that the EGYPTIANS ARE COLONISTS SENT OUT BY THE ETHIOPIANS, Osiris having been the leader of the colony. For speaking generally, what is now Egypt, they maintain, was not land but sea when in the beginning the universe was being formed; afterwards, however?, as the Nile during the times of its inundation carried down the mud from Ethiopia, land was gradually built up from the deposit.

Also the statement that all the land of the Egyptians is alluvial silt deposited by the river receives the clearest proof, in their opinion, from what takes place at the outlets of the Nile; for as each year new mud is continually gathered together at the mouths of the river, the sea is observed being thrust back by the deposited silt and the land receiving the increase.

And the larger part of the customs of the Egyptians are, they hold, Ethiopian, the colonists still preserving their ancient manners”. he wrote this 2,000 years ago and it's is still happening. the Nile river still carries down muds from Ethiopia to Egypt. the Egyptian government sell these muds to some deserted Arabian countries. one of the reasons why Ethiopia has been building the dam is to stop the mud from going out anywhere."

he wrote this again, “Egypt itself was a colony of Ethiopia and the laws and script of both lands were naturally the same; but the hieroglyphic script was more widely known to the vulgar in Ethiopia than in Egypt”. Source: Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheke Historica, or Library of History, bk. iii, ch. 3.)

the Ethiopians also know this. in the ancient Ethiopian books they mentioned this same history and said that the ancient Mizras (Egyptians) are their people sent out by their man, Ausis. by the way in Ethiopian history his name is ኦሲስ(Ausis), he is known as Ausis.

One of the well known Ethiopia's historian and philosopher Professor Fikre Tolosa(PHD) said this in his book "the indigenous Egyptians were Ethiopians. Ausis was the leader of the migration, they followed Abay(Nile river) and finally settled there." the book is entitled "from Ethiopia to Egypt" it is not yet been translated into English. if anyone can read Amharic, i will indicate the book.

“The Egyptians are colonists sent out by the Ethiopians, Osiris having been the leader of the colony. . . . Osiris . . . . gathered together a great army, with the intention of visiting all the inhabited lands and teaching the race race of men how to cultivate . . . . for he supposed that if he made men give up their savagery and adopt a gentle manner of life he would receive immortal honors. . . . .

They were the earliest, and say that the proofs of this are clear. That they did not arrive as immigrants but are the natives of the country and therefore rightly are called authochthonous is almost universally accepted. That those who live in the south are likely to be the first engendered by the earth is obvious to all . . . .

They further write that it was among them that people were first taught to honor the gods and offer sacrifices and arrange processions and festivals and perform other things by which people honor the divine.
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