From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Frank Haber wrote:
> An uncle had one of those illicit copies of Smith's chart* on his wall.
> It was on bad 1880's paper, and fell apart before I could covet it.
>
> The poor bastard barely made a living util late in life. The Royal
> Society toffs tried to steal his stuff in quite shameless fashion, and
> published said layer chart in pirated versions, which every engraver in
> the Western world then, in turn, stole for his own.
>

Yup but at least we have a museum to him:

http://www.rotundamuseum.org.uk/home.html

& fittingly it's built from hackness stone:

http://www.rotundamuseum.org.uk/home.html#derwent


"Still in his twenties, Sir John was an intellectual leader in
Scarborough in the 1820s and a staunch supporter of Smith and his ideas. He
donated the Hackness stone of which the Rotunda Museum is built.

Sir John Johnstone became Smith’s patron and employed him as his Land
Steward at Hackness"

> So now Yorkshire has invented the airplane and the geological layer cake
> both? You going into competition with the Russkys?

Nope....& not Yorkshire m'boy...the east coast o yorkshire....wot ave
the westers & southers ever done fer us.....? 

Oh wrt invented the airplane ee also invented the caterpillar track &
the spoked bicycle wheel (i.e. spokes working via tension & not
compression).


Oh & then there woz that Cook bloke (oz, Hawaii & the Pacific in general).



Adam

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