Johann von Robais, Baron de Kalb (June 19, 1721 – August 19, 1780), born Johann Kalb , was a Franconian -born French military officer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War . He was mortally wounded while fighting against the British Army during the Battle of Camden .
40-805: DeKalb or De Kalb may refer to: People [ edit ] Baron Johann de Kalb (1721–1780), major general in the American Revolutionary War Places [ edit ] Municipalities in the United States [ edit ] DeKalb, Illinois , the largest city in the United States named DeKalb DeKalb High School (Illinois) , in that city De Kalb, Mississippi , Kemper County De Kalb, Missouri , Buchanan County De Kalb, New York , St. Lawrence County DeKalb, Ohio , Crawford County De Kalb, Texas , Bowie County De Kalb, West Virginia , unincorporated community Counties in
80-449: A conception. One of them is the mutual jealousy of almost all the French officers, particularly against those of higher rank than the rest. These people think of nothing but their incessant intrigues and backbitings. They hate each other like the bitterest enemies, and endeavor to injure each other wherever an opportunity offers. I have given up their society, and very seldom see them. La Fayette
120-565: A home in space. In the story, these devices became popularly known as "waldos". In reference to this story, the real-life remote manipulators that were later developed also came to be called waldos, some even by NASA . Later, an American company, The Character Shop, which creates animatronic devices and objects (often for motion pictures), obtained the trademark to Waldo for "data-capture input devices". Waldo's personality can best be described as arrogance combined with misanthropy . He does not think of himself as crippled. In his mind he
160-477: A slow weakening of the human physique, and he blames the radiant power industry. Stevens returns to Earth, to find that McLeod, one of his engineers who had experienced a power failure in his personal craft, has returned. He tells Stevens that he fixed the deKalbs. McLeod broke down in Pennsylvania Dutch country, where he grew up. Visiting an old hex doctor known as Gramps Schneider, McLeod let him look at
200-403: A specialty in fine motor skills. Once Grimes reveals Stevens' purpose, Waldo turns hostile. Nothing would persuade him to help NAPA. Stevens leaves, but Grimes has a few words with Waldo, pointing out where his food comes from and so forth. Waldo reluctantly takes the case, but Grimes insists on one more condition: Waldo must figure out what effect broadcast power has on humans. Grimes is seeing
240-400: A spoon. Far from destroying him, this channeled his intellect, and his family's money, into the development of the device patented as "Waldo F. Jones' Synchronous Reduplicating Pantograph". Wearing a glove and harness, Waldo could control a much more powerful mechanical hand simply by moving his hand and fingers. This and other technologies he develops make him a rich man, rich enough to build
280-728: A stop on the Fourth Avenue and Brighton lines at Flatbush Avenue DeKalb Avenue Line , now the B38 DeKalb/Lafayette Avenues bus route De Kalb Dr., Calabasas, CA Montgomery County, Pennsylvania [ edit ] E. Dekalb Pike, W. Dekalb Pike and Dekalb Street are names of US Route 202 in Montgomery County in Pennsylvania. DeKalb Street station , near US 202, a SEPTA commuter train station that connects to Philadelphia and Norristown, PA. Townships in
320-451: Is causing vehicles driven by broadcast power to cease functioning. Society has harnessed cheap atomic power, broadcast by NAPA, to run homes, factories, ground vehicles, and even personal aircraft which can travel into space. If the failures continue, not only will he lose his job but the entire power system of the country could collapse. The heart of the technology is the "deKalb receptor". The deKalbs are failing, and no one can identify
360-569: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Johann de Kalb Kalb was born in Hüttendorf, a German village near Erlangen , Principality of Bayreuth , the son of Johann Leonhard Kalb and Margarethe Seitz. He learned French, English, and the social skills to earn a substantial military commission in the Loewendal German Regiment of
400-640: Is right. Then he gets a call from NAPA's head of research, Dr. Rambeau, who seems to have come unhinged. Having seen the wiggling deKalbs, he announces that he knows what is happening. "Magic is loose in the world!" he tells Waldo. He shows Waldo some seemingly impossible tricks he can do now that he understands magic. Waldo calls Stevens to have Rambeau brought to him, but Stevens reports that Rambeau somehow escaped from his restraints without actually unfastening them. Not only that, he has made another set of deKalbs behave as strangely as McLeod's. Waldo asks to have Rambeau's notes and equipment shipped up to him. Seeing
440-423: Is superior to all other humans because of his weakness. He reasons that if a chimpanzee is ten times as strong as a man, and a Waldo is ten times as strong as a man, then waldos are as far above men as men are above chimpanzees. He calls the rest of humanity "overmuscled canaille, smooth chimps". His home's location, which he calls Freehold , is located in orbit high above Earth and is symbolic of his relation to
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#1732844343883480-512: Is the sole exception; I always meet him with the same cordiality and the same pleasure. He is an excellent young man, and we are good friends ... La Fayette is much liked, he is on the best of terms with Washington. Kalb was assigned to command a division of Maryland and Delaware troops, and he was ordered south to the Carolinas in command of these reinforcements. During the British southern campaign, he
520-879: The French Army in 1743. Kalb served with distinction in the War of the Austrian Succession in Flanders . During the Seven Years' War , he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and made assistant quartermaster general in the Army of the Upper Rhine, a division created by the disbanding of the Loewendal Regiment. He was awarded the Order of Military Merit in 1763 and elevated to the nobility with
560-567: The French Revolution without children. In 1768, Kalb traveled to North America on a covert mission from the Duc de Choiseul , the Foreign Minister of France , to determine the level of discontent among colonists towards Great Britain, a major French adversary. During his four-month trip, Kalb gained respect for the colonists and their "spirit of independence", producing detailed reports for
600-642: The Knights of Columbus , a Catholic fraternal order, established the Baron DeKalb Council #1073 in 1906. His portrait was painted posthumously by Charles Willson Peale , who was best known for his paintings of leading figures of the American Revolution. In 1886, a monument to Kalb was erected on the grounds of the Maryland state house to honor his contributions to the American Revolution. Two warships of
640-714: The U.S. Navy were named after him: the Civil War river ironclad USS Baron DeKalb and the World War I troop transport USS DeKalb . An American elementary school run by the U.S. Department of Defense in Nuremberg , Germany was named for him; it closed in the 1990s. Since 2006, the Major General Baron DeKalb Army Reserve Center hosts the headquarters of the 200th Military Police Command at Fort Meade , Maryland. In Camden, South Carolina, outside
680-541: The "Jones-Schneider deKalb", a Rube Goldberg contraption which appears to draw power from nowhere. He tells them that with this he can put NAPA out of business. Of course, NAPA offers a settlement from which Waldo profits hugely, even though the new deKalb is a repaired one with a lot of distracting technology attached. Eventually Waldo realizes that he himself can draw strength from the Other World. Tricking Grimes and Stevens into taking him to Earth again, he walks out of
720-788: The "impossible" thing he has just seen, decides to twit Stevens with Rambeau's words: "Magic is loose in the world!" Waldo realizes that Stevens' and Grimes' problems are related. Radiant power is affecting the human nervous system. People feel weak, rundown, fretful, and somehow transfer their malaise to the deKalbs. He also realizes something that Stevens has not noticed. The repaired deKalbs work without broadcast power. Apparently they draw energy from Schneider's "Other World". Waldo uses this to exact his revenge. Summoning NAPA's representatives to his home, he demonstrates that he can fix deKalbs and can train others to fix them. The repairs are 100% reliable, he asserts. Having received their formal acknowledgment that he has fulfilled his contract, he unveils
760-508: The French government; upon his return to Europe, he expressed a strong desire to go back to colonial America and join their nascent fight against the British. In July 1777, Kalb returned to North America with his protégé, the Marquis de Lafayette , and joined the Continental Army. He was disappointed and angry to learn that he would not be made a major general, but with Lafayette's influence
800-499: The Other World, this is important. McLeod, according to Schneider, was "tired and fretful", and found one of the "bad truths", causing the deKalbs to fail. Schneider simply looked for the other truth, and the deKalbs worked again. At first Waldo thinks the journey wasted. He tries Schneider's methods on a failed deKalb. To his astonishment, they begin to work in just the same fashion as McLeod's. Stevens calls him to say that things are getting much worse. Waldo, thrown off balance by
840-743: The Revolutionary War Visitor Center, is a statue of de Kalb to commemorate his bravery in the Battle of Camden . Waldo (short story) " Waldo " (1942) is a short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein , originally published in Astounding Magazine in August 1942 under the pseudonym Anson MacDonald. It is available in the 1950 book Waldo & Magic, Inc. (as well as other collections). Both stories in that collection involve magic but are otherwise unrelated. The essence of
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#1732844343883880-517: The United States [ edit ] DeKalb County, Alabama DeKalb County, Georgia DeKalb County, Illinois DeKalb County, Indiana DeKalb County, Missouri DeKalb County, Tennessee Street names [ edit ] Interrelated locations in New York City [ edit ] DeKalb Avenue , Brooklyn DeKalb Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line) , a stop on the L train at Wyckoff Avenue DeKalb Avenue (BMT Fourth Avenue Line) ,
920-557: The United States [ edit ] DeKalb Township, DeKalb County, Illinois Ships [ edit ] USS Baron DeKalb , an American Civil War ironclad river gunboat formerly known as USS Saint Louis and used by the United States Army USS DeKalb , a decommissioned U.S. Navy ship previously known as Prinz Eitel Friedrich USS DeKalb County , a twice-decommissioned U.S. Navy ship Other [ edit ] DeKalb High School (disambiguation) ,
960-400: The cause. In desperation, Stevens approaches Doc Grimes, a physician who has known Waldo since birth, to try to persuade Waldo to help. Waldo has a grudge against NAPA after losing a legal battle with them some years before. Waldo lives on a space station in high orbit, where microgravity allows him to move around despite his weakness. He makes his living as a consulting engineer , with
1000-465: The cellular scale. There are three main factors involved in Heinlein's description of the tools: The time in which the story is set is not mentioned, but is clearly decades ahead of the 1940s when it was written. When Waldo visits Gramps Schneider, whom McLeod described as being older than anybody even when McLeod was a child, he notices a campaign button on the wall of Schneider's house. The slogan on
1040-507: The craft, almost causing Grimes to have a heart attack . Flash-forwarding back to the dancer, who is Waldo, we see him depart the dressing room with great bonhomie . His principal assistant is the former chairman of the board at North American Power-Air. L. Sprague de Camp praised "Waldo" for reflecting Heinlein's typical virtues: "his prodigality of invention, his shrewd grasp of human nature and his versatile knowledge of law, politics, business and science." However, he noted that although
1080-428: The deKalbs. Schneider announced that "now the fingers will make", meaning the antennas on the deKalbs will work. McLeod finds to his surprise that the deKalbs are indeed functional. However he has a surprise for Stevens. In operation, the antennas now flex and wiggle like fingers reaching for something. Waldo, meanwhile, having satisfied himself that the deKalbs really are having basic problems, also realizes that Grimes
1120-439: The death I always prayed for: the death of a soldier fighting for the rights of man." He died three days later. Upon visiting de Kalb's grave several years after his death, George Washington is reported to have said: So, there lies the brave de Kalb. The generous stranger, who came from a distant land to fight our battles and to water with his blood the tree of liberty . Would to God he had lived to share its fruits! De Kalb
1160-408: The eccentric deKalbs, Waldo realizes that he must learn what happened to them. Schneider will not leave his home, so Waldo has to go back to Earth, an experience he dreads. Shipped down in a medical craft, with Grimes in attendance, he lies in his waterbed while Schneider examines him. Schneider thinks he should get up and walk, but Waldo protests he cannot. Schneider tells him he must "reach out for
1200-706: The name of several high schools in the United States DeKalb–Peachtree Airport (PDK), Chamblee, DeKalb County, Georgia DeKalb School of the Arts , a magnet school in DeKalb County, Georgia near Atlanta DeKalb receptor, a fictional device in the science fiction story " Waldo " by Robert A. Heinlein DeKalb Genetics Corporation , a hybrid corn seed producer See also [ edit ] Kalp (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
1240-420: The power". According to Schneider, the "Other World is close by and full of power", waiting only for someone to grab it. In Schneider's hands, Waldo does indeed experience a sense of well-being, and is able to lift up a coffee cup one-handed for the first time in his life. Schneider explains an old philosophy, how something which can be true for this world might not be for the Other World. Since our minds sit in
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1280-425: The rest of humanity. As the story opens, a dancer is performing feats of astonishing virtuosity on stage. Afterward, in the dressing room, while preparing to depart for his other job as a neurosurgeon , the dancer reminisces to a reporter about what made him take up dancing. The rest of the story is told as a flashback . James Stevens, Chief Engineer of North American Power-Air (NAPA), is desperate to discover what
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1360-410: The story is the journey of a mechanical genius from his self-imposed exile from the rest of humanity to a more normal life, conquering the disease myasthenia gravis as well as his own contempt for humans in general. The key to this is that magic is loose in the world, but in a logical and scientific way. Waldo Farthingwaite-Jones was born a weakling, unable even to lift his head up to drink or to hold
1400-399: The story was "fast-moving," it "peter[ed] out at the end instead of rising to a climax." A typical illustration of the tools in the story is Waldo's handling of his need to perform micro-dissection on the scale of cellular walls. He uses human-sized waldos to make smaller waldos, then uses those to make even smaller waldos, and continues the series until he has waldos small enough to work at
1440-635: The title of baron . In 1764, Kalb resigned from the army and married Anna Elizabeth Emilie van Robais, the French heiress to a fortune from cloth manufacturing. He bought the Milon-la-Chapelle chateau near Versailles , where he took up a quiet life of farming. He had three children: Élie, Frederic, and Caroline; Eli later married Elise Signard d'Ouffières and have a daughter, Nicette de Kalb, who married Raymond de Vandière de Vitrac d'Abzac, and continued to live in Milon la Chapelle; Frederic would die during
1480-456: Was appointed to the rank on September 5, 1777, which he learned of as he was on the road to return to France. Kalb was at Valley Forge for most of the winter between 1777 and 1778, commanding a division of Patterson's and Learned 's Brigades. During this time, he wrote letters of introduction for John Adams to the French court, expressing a poor opinion of French forces: On the whole, I have annoyances to bear, of which you can hardly form
1520-455: Was disappointed to learn that Horatio Gates had been appointed to command instead of him. Gates led the army to a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Camden on August 16, 1780. De Kalb's horse was shot from under him, causing him to tumble to the ground. Before he could get up, he was shot three times and bayonetted repeatedly by British soldiers. His friend and aide, the Chevalier du Buysson,
1560-602: Was greatly revered by his contemporaries and is still regarded as a hero of the American Revolution. Numerous towns and counties in the U.S. bear his name , including in Alabama , Georgia , Illinois , Indiana , Mississippi , Missouri , New York , Tennessee and Texas . Streets include DeKalb Avenue in Brooklyn , New York City , and Merrick, New York , DeKalb Pike ( U.S. Route 202 ) between King of Prussia and Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania , and others. In Brooklyn, New York,
1600-511: Was seriously wounded blocking additional blows with his own body. Upon seeing Kalb, Cornwallis told him, "I am sorry, sir, to see you, not sorry that you are vanquished, but sorry to see you so badly wounded." It is reported that Cornwallis supervised the dressing of Kalb's wounds by his own surgeons in Camden, South Carolina . As he lay dying, Kalb was reported to have said to a British officer, "I thank you sir for your generous sympathy, but I die
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