 So, I've become fascinated with his contributions to libraries and education, especially here in the Bay Area. And I'm working on a book about him, but there's no word on when that will be finished. So, I appreciate the opportunity to share my research so far. Mr. Halladies' life was crammed with action, invention, and selfless service to the causes that he cared about. I will only be able to touch on some of them, but by the end of his life in 1900, he had established himself as California's premier wire rope manufacturer. He was a leader of the state's industrial endeavors and a champion of the region's libraries and schools. He was instrumental in the development of the University of California, the San Francisco Public Library, the Mechanics Institute, the San Francisco Art Association, the Lick Observatory, and what is now known as the Lick Wilmerding High School. And those are just the organizations that are still around today. So, I'm going to organize this talk by subject rather than strict chronology. First, I'll talk about Halladies' youth and the development of his wire rope business, and then I'll discuss his role with the Mechanics Institute and the San Francisco Public Library and the University of California, and then I'll talk about his portrait. And then, if we're still friends, I'll be able to take your questions. All right, so the father of San Francisco's cable cars was born Andrew Halladie Smith on March 16, 1834. He was the sixth child of civil engineer Andrew Smith and Julian Johnstone, and he was born in London, near Lester Square, in a building that served double duty as home and also a factory for his father's business. He was named for Sir Andrew Halladie, who was a kinsman of the family. Dr. Halladie was a physician who studied at the University of Edinburgh. He was involved in the Napoleonic Wars, serving as a doctor. And I think his last tour was in the Battle of Waterloo. He was a surgeon for the British Army. He also helped establish King's College in London and was the royal physician to William IV and Queen Victoria. His connection to the Smith family I haven't quite figured out, but it must have been very strong because the Smiths would name two of their children after him. Now Halladie's father, Andrew Smith, was born in Dumfries, Scotland, in 1799. He came to London in his youth and quickly made a name for himself as an engineer, taking out scores of patents for a variety of technologies, including windows and doors, propelling mechanisms, steam generators, a suspension bridge, and even a machine gun. Most importantly though, he was the first person in the English-speaking world to patent the concept of wire rope. And his first patent was taken out in January 1835, when Halladie, his son, was barely a year. Several more patents followed, and this started a line of work that the Smith family would pursue in London and also in California for the next 60 years. Smith was heavily involved in the local scientific community that blossomed in London. He was a member of the local mechanics institutes as well as the Royal Institution and the Royal Society of Arts. And he was in regular contact with the most exalted names in science of the day, including Marie Ampere, John Walker, James Marsh, and Michael Faraday. Unfortunately, since wire rope was a hot technology and several other people were playing around with it at the same time, that environment bred some very wicked patent lawsuits and an eventual bankruptcy for Andrew Smith in 1849. Luckily, by the time the bankruptcy hearings were over, Smith had already lined up another career as engineer for Colonel John Charles Fermant at his estate in Mariposa, California. In order to sweeten the deal, Colonel Fermant granted Andrew Smith an unmarked land grant so he could pursue mining as well. So Andrew Smith, being the entrepreneurial sort, started up a joint stock company called the Golden Mountain Mining Company of Mariposa and headed out to California with his oldest son and his middle son, namesake Andrew. And they left in February of 1852. After a rough passage across the ocean on the steamship Pacific and a harrowing trip across the Isthmus of Panama, they would arrive in San Francisco on May 24th, 1852. And there's how San Francisco looked when they arrived. They didn't stay long though. They quickly left for Mariposa. And once they got there, it was immediately clear that there was no land set aside for them and as had been promised by Colonel Fermant. And to make matters worse, Fremont's title to the land was in jeopardy. And so things were disappointing for the Smith family. But to make the best of the situation, Smith took on a couple of small engineering jobs for other mining companies, but ultimately went back to England in 1854 hoping to pursue some inventions that he was cooking up related to mining. And he left his young son Andrew to fend for himself. Young Andrew at this time for private reasons would change his name from Andrew Hallidy-Smith to Andrew Smith Hallidy, though it would not officially be recorded with the state until 1864. Now our Andrew had a lot of adventures with mining, but eventually figured out that the utilization of his engineering skills was more lucrative than panning for gold or cradling or even tunneling. So Andrew spent a great deal of time on the middle fork of the American River. And as you can see, it was very crowded. In the summer of 1856, he found himself working for a quartz mill, constructing a ditch which would move water to power the mill. The quartz seam itself was 1,100 feet above the mill on a hillside, and there was a track that was used to bring cars down, full of ore, down to the mill. The loaded car that was descending would at the same time bring up an empty car by means of a manila rope, so manila is that fiber rope that we're all so used to. The rope itself was about 1,200 feet long, so it was a big rope way up on the hillside. Because the rope typically...