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To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (11017)	1/30/1998 9:27:00 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Respond to of 17305

Edison Tried to edit that post but SI locked up on me. I wanted to include the mention that there were enough volatile explosives to take out a city block....the entire lab area, the Black Maria, the works. They did say at the time that "most" of the explosives were out of reach...but what that means is that there was a silk cord strung between two waist high posts to stop anyone. Also it might have been almost 20 years ago. Whatever. I remember when I heard about it it was one of those moments that one never forgets.

To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (11017)	1/30/1998 11:16:00 AM
From: Andrew Vance	Respond to of 17305

AV -- FedEx would not have been fast enough. You have kids and know what I mean. It's not as if I had much advance notice on this project. The note came home from the teacher right after New Year's and made it to us (the parents), you guessed it, very soon after(NOT). So with 4 PC connected to the web and hundreds of search results, we went through some printer cartridges printing out useful stuff. And Heaven forbid, she actually walked over to the World Book Encyclopedia for information. What a shock!!! "Dad, this is neat. I thought you had to do this stuff on the PC with Compton's and Encarta". After looking through the books you informed me how inefficient these "book form" encyclopedia were. No point and click and no search engine. you have to know how to spell and how to flip pages. But at least she did say, "On my way to finding Thomas Edison, I came across some neat stuff in the "E" book." And to think, this is a 1983 set of World Book Encyclopedia that I have been buying the Yearbook AND Science Yearbook each and every year for the past 15 years. The huge 2 book dictionary has been placed on its side and acts like bookends for the massive World Book Set. Just out of curiosity, can anyone claim to have an older set with EVERY yearly annual from its purchase date. My update outnumber the original set in both numbers and width on the shelf. And to think, all that stuff plus videos and voice supposedly fit on one damn CD these days, "with more efficient search engines".<GGG> Anyway, while they were doing the literature search, I was cutting out plastic and wood to make the trophy pieces she could paint and glue together. It was her idea to paint the light bulb yellow to make it as if it were turned on. My son, of course, stated he could wire this puppy for battery operation. But that's another story. Andrew