Re: solution to the world's energy needs

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 10:58 9/12/99 -0700, Bill Beaty wrote:
> ...
> If the Wright Brothers had encountered too big a barrier, and if all
> lesser inventors had an even smaller chance of bringing Powered Flight
> into the world, then "flying machines" might even now be in the same
> situation.
...
> William J. Beaty

Given that my appetite for nit-picking is legion, I
need to note that the proposition that the Wrights
(who are of course personal heroes of mine) invented
the first 'flying machines' or 'powered flying machines'
or 'powered heavier-than-air flying machines' is an
American tradition of the same kind
as 'Lindberg was first to fly the Atlantic'.


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK