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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48361)	4/23/2005 5:44:51 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Comment in the New York Times- one week before the successful flight of the Kitty Hawk by the Wright brothers: "...We hope that Professor Langley will not put his substantial greatness as a scientist in further peril by continuing to waste his time and the money involved, in further airship experiments. Life is short, and he is capable of services to humanity incomparably greater than can be expected to result from trying to fly....For students and investigators of the Langley type there are more useful employments." Source: New York Times, December 10,1903, editorial page.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48361)	4/24/2005 7:45:56 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Chirpy thoughts-Proposal to light English cities by gas (early 1800's) The idea was ridiculed in the following popular rhyme: "We thankful are that sun and moon Were placed so very high That no tempestuous hand might reach To tear them from the sky. Were it not so, we soon should find That some reforming ass Would straight propose to snuff them out, And light the world with Gas." Further ridicule came from William H. Wollaston, English chemist and natural philosopher, who said: "[They] might as well try to light London with a slice from the moon." Source: Murdock, Alexander. Light Without a Wick, a Century of Gas- Lighting, 1792-1892. Glasgow, Scotland, University Press, 1892. p. 45.