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Hi Ian and all,
You mentioned a lot of movies and a few tech developers and interestingly
many names are familiar. Film writers take a lot of literary license so not
surprisingly persons are portrayed quite differently than they were or are.
Then there are events based on a true story but that's where the similarity
ends. Case in point Unstoppable, a recent movie based on a real runaway
train. It started out factual in a rail yard where it started and folloed the
actual route but became so absurd as to make me think the title should have
been Unbelievable. Oh and BTW being a rail fan I have several puctures of the
filming all done on location with real locomotives repainted in the livery of
the ficticious company.
True, Einstein never had a university degree yet the taught at Princeton, now
funny you should mention Logie Baird who only recently was given credit in
the US for inventing television.That reminded me of a movie I watched last night
where a couple of mechanics one with a book on invenetors who mentioned Marconi
inventing radio. The older gentleman corrected him and the book explaining it
was Tesla, Marconi was the one who got credit by using several of Tesla's
patents.
"As the general in another comedy war film used to say "Baaaaaa,Baaaaa.Baaa"
You lost me on that one but it brought to mind an old TV show; Black Sheep
Squadron. It was based on the story of "Pappy" Boington (sp?) and his fliers
in the Pacific that had in the opener an unseen chorus sining soto voce "We
are poor little lambs who have lost their way, baaa baaa baaa."
James Dyson a great inventor? Not the one I know, he "invented" the Dyson vacuum
cleaner using existing technology made smaller. Basically his vacuum is the
home version of an industrial dust collector but the ball swivel design may be
his,
never seen it before nor on any other such product, most likely patented.There
for a moment I thought of the Dyson sphere originally proposed by Freeman Dyson
but that evolved into some interesting science fiction like the Star Trek Next
Generation episode Relics.Oh Google it just for fun.
73 de Warren
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