On or about 01-24-06 14:37, Dan Ceppa did engage James Bradley

 JB> Fascinating how far we've come, isn't it?

 DC> We may have been much farther ahead had not Archimedes works
 DC> been lost.

I think that was up for debate, wasn't it? Sure we saw a real lull in the
action following his death, but the speculation to what he was working on -
even optimistically - was not terribly advanced beyond his day. This is only
what I recall from years ago contained on a PBS show. 

 JB> ... H.Ford did NOT invent the assembly line.T/middle-class+union
 DC> Didn't Remmington do that first?
 JB> Nope... Some Scott FWIR. Unless Remington started his career there...

 DC> Scot, not Scott!

YIKES! It being Robby Burns Day, no less. I'll likely get a haggis fly through
my front window. 

 JB> BTW, d'ya ever see the original facsimile machine? It has one large
 JB> wire, with both terminals connected to ground. A spark gap, and heat
 JB> sensitive paper interrupt the electricity on a pendulum arrangement. I
 JB> forget now what the reader invoked, but that system was also invented
 JB> by a Scott.

 DC> I know them, but never ripped on apart.

This one was so large, and made of cast iron - besides all the workings were
right out in the open anyway. The bugger invented heat sensitive paper coating,
and the means to synch the two behemoths. You couldn't use the same contraption
to do both jobs. One had to send, and the other always had to receive.

 JB> Do you mean "Eli"?
 DC> That's what I wrote...  (furious editing)  See:




 DC> ... Eli Whitney discovered that gin could be made from cotton.

Maybe I just need glasses. 


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