[rescue] The Age of Things [was: Re: my point]

[Michael Free]

Can't forget the ancient Egyptian's wet cell electroplating batteries... or
the mechanical calculator some archaeologists pulled out of a roman
shipwreck.

Mike Free

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods at weird.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] The Age of Things [was: Re: my point]


> [ On Wednesday, June 26, 2002 at 10:54:24 (-0400), Sheldon T. Hall
wrote: ]
> > Subject: [rescue] The Age of Things [was: Re:  my point]
> >
> > A lot of stuff is much older than you think; Farnsworth's first patents
on
> > television are from 1927.  People had car phones in the early 50s, etc.
>
> Indeed!
>
> Eg. alternating current generators and motors and a lot of the other
> stuff Tesla created a hundred years ago or so......  :-)
>
> (Thanks for changing the subject line, BTW!  ;-)
>
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