Re: Re[2]: Scientist of the Millennium?

[brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>]

At 22:17 1/7/98 EST, you wrote:
>
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> I love your list, but Watt didn't invent anything according to the fable
> I learned.  A physics professor essentially handed him the economizer. 
> Lycoming already had a steam engine.   - TLW
Hehehe...Here comes the flight of the iconoclasts - and I can clast 
icons with the best of 'em...
....my favorite is about Edison learning of the incandescent lamp
 by reading Swann's article in the Scientific American.

(And Watt was indeed an instrument maker at the U of Glasgow where
he listened to Physics profs, before his descent to Birmingham 
and the Soho Manufactory, whence Priestley escaped the mob's
 disfavor for his Revolutionary sympathies, later
where the Lunar Society fermented scientific discussion.)

Regards

brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK