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To: KLP who wrote (152099)	10/5/2007 1:43:54 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 225578

Electricity could be counted as a new discovery, and harnessing it was one of the greatest human achievements in history. Neil Armstrong, the man who walked on the moon, headed a panel that identified the most important technological achievements of the 20th Century. Number one was the electrification of rural America. Walking on the moon was something like number ten. I agree with you that everything we need is available if we just learn how to use it. One of my ancestors isolated some of the things we use every day, two hundred years ago. Aluminum, sodium, laughing gas, and so forth. His lab assistant, Michael Faraday, was instrumental in harnessing electricity. A child wrote a poem about him that I found on the internet. It's pretty funny (to me, at least). Sir Humphry Davy Abominated Gravy He suffered the odium Of having discovered sodium. en.wikipedia.org Sir Humphry also wrote poetry and books on fly fishing. He partied with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley, and Robert Burns, but they sniffed too much Nitrous Oxide and had a short life. My blood grandfather, his descendant, was an utter jerk who left my grandmother when my mother was born.