On 24 Jan 06  05:40:00, James Bradley got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: BW help

 DC> ... Loevenhoek out, and someone will bite.
 
 JB> I'll bite, who's Leovenhoek?
 
 DC> He used a telescope as a microscope.

 JB> Fascinating how far we've come, isn't it? 
 
We may have been much farther ahead had not Archimedes works 
been lost.  

 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...

Scot, not Scott!  

 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. 

I know them, but never ripped on apart.  


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

 JB> Do you mean "Eli"?

That's what I wrote...  (furious editing)  See:  




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