The village has no shop or post office but does have two public houses – The Thimble and The European, The nearest shop is in Piddletrenthide where locally grown fruit and vegetables, among other miscellaneous items are sold.

Initially, high-level bridges were contemplated to cross over the two main shipping channels on the selected route, Thimble Shoals Channel, which leads to Hampton Roads, and the Chesapeake Channel, which leads to points north in the Bay, notably the Port of Baltimore.

Two parallel north-south streets, Main Street and Back Street were first joined by Station Street, Stirling Street, Burns Street, Thimble Street, Market Street and Red Row.

Early Sunday strips, such as Thimble Theatre and Little Orphan Annie, filled an entire newspaper page, a format known to collectors as full page.

It also gave impetus to the never-ending treasure hunts conducted on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, in Suffolk County, Long Island in New York where Gardiner's Island is located, Charles Island in Milford, Connecticut ; the Thimble Islands in Connecticut and on the island of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy.

* 1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.

* January 17 – First appearance of comic strip hero Popeye in Thimble Theatre.

* The fictional character Ham Gravy debuts in Thimble Theatre Comics.

* November 2 – A giant squid, 6. 1 meters long, washes ashore at Thimble Tickle Bay in Newfoundland.

; Thimble: The part that one's thumb turns.

The town of Branford includes the Thimble Islands.

Cruises of the Thimble Islands depart from the Stony Creek dock, and seal-watch cruises take place in March.

* Bud Sagendorf, cartoonist of the Thimble Theater comic strip and the Popeye comic books.

Olive Oyl is a cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar in 1919 for his comic strip Thimble Theatre.

J. Wellington Wimpy, generally referred to as Wimpy, is one of the characters in the long-running comic strip Popeye, created by E. C. Segar and originally called Thimble Theatre, and in the Popeye cartoons based upon the strip.

Popeye started out as a secondary character in 1929 in the newspaper feature Thimble Theater, and made his film debut in July 1933, introduced in the Betty Boop short Popeye the Sailor.

In 1915-1916 he operated the one hundred seat " Little Thimble Theater " with Greenwich Village figure Guido Bruno.

Austria introduced ca 1868 a set of cancellations of small diameter (< 20 mm ), so that they could be seen entirely on all stamps: ( de ) Fingerhut, ( en ) Thimble.

Elzie Crisler Segar ( 8 December, 1894 – 13 October, 1938 ) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of Popeye, a character who first appeared in 1929 in his comic strip Thimble Theatre.

He began by drawing Thimble Theatre for the New York Journal.

Thimble artists would also utilize enameling, or the Guilloché techniques advanced by Peter Carl Fabergé.

The popular TV show and comic strip Popeye was originally called Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye.

He was warned by his good friend from Oxford, Thomas Thimble, that she will eventually break his heart and he would be better off without her.

Many printers are local peripherals connected directly to a nearby personal computer.

Individual printers are often designed to support both local and network connected users at the same time.

Multifunction printers ( MFPs ) include a scanner and can copy paper documents or send a fax ; these are also called multi-function devices ( MFD ), or all-in-one ( AIO ) printers.

Consumer and some commercial printers are designed for low-volume, short-turnaround print jobs ; requiring virtually no setup time to achieve a hard copy of a given document.

However, printers are generally slow devices ( 30 pages per minute is considered fast, and many inexpensive consumer printers are far slower than that ), and the cost per page is actually relatively high.

However, as printers have improved in quality and performance, many jobs which used to be done by professional print shops are now done by users on local printers ; see desktop publishing.

Local printers are also increasingly taking over the process of photofinishing as digital photo printers become commonplace.

The following printing technologies are routinely found in modern printers:

Solid ink printers, also known as phase-change printers, are a type of thermal transfer printer.

Solid ink printers are most commonly used as colour office printers, and are excellent at printing on transparencies and other non-porous media.

Acquisition and operating costs are similar to laser printers.

Dye-sub printers are intended primarily for high-quality colour applications, including colour photography ; and are less well-suited for text.

While once the province of high-end print shops, dye-sublimation printers are now increasingly used as dedicated consumer photo printers.

Although nearly all inkjet, thermal, and laser printers also print closely spaced dots rather than continuous lines or characters, it is not customary to call them dot matrix printers.

The heating elements are usually arranged as a matrix of small closely spaced dots — thermal printers are actually dot-matrix printers, though they are not so called.

And while it was one of the largest producers of mainframe computers in the world, Burroughs also produced related equipment as well, including typewriters and printers.

Closely related to the X. 25 protocol are the protocols to connect asynchronous devices ( such as dumb terminals and printers ) to an X. 25 network: X. 3, X. 28 and X. 29.

Main products: MFPs, Copiers, printers, facsimile machines, microfilm systems and related supplies.

, commonly known as Epson, is a Japanese electronics company and one of the world's largest manufacturers of computer printers, information and imaging related equipment.

Home Networked Device Interoperability Guidelines v1. 5 was published in March 2006 and expanded in October of the same year ; the changes included the addition of two new product categories — printers and mobile devices — as well as an " increase of DLNA Device Classes from two to twelve " and an increase in supported user scenarios related to the new product categories.