THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.”

― Orville Wright

BIRTHDAYS:

1580 Pierre Vernier, French mathematician, inventor of the vernier caliper used for taking accurate measurements.

1621 Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter.

1808 James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer and inventor of the steam hammer.

1848 Gustave Caillebotte, French painter.

1851 Charles E. Hires, American pharmacist and an early promoter of commercially prepared root beer.

1871 Orville Wright, Orville Wright, together with his brother Wilbur Wright, revolutionized transportation with the invention of the airplane.

1881 George Enescu, Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher and is regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history. Romanian Rhapsodies no. 1 op. 11, and Konzertstück for Viola and Piano

1902 Ogden Nash, American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces.

1906 Philo T. Farnsworth, American inventor (created electronic television, video camera tube)

1919 Malcolm Forbes, American entrepreneur and politician most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, which was founded by his father B. C. Forbes.

1921 Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter and producer, best known as the creator of the Star Trek franchise.

MISCELLANY:

WOW! TESLA HAS SOME COMPETITION. First RFA launch in a “matter of weeks”

SOME RECREATIONAL READING FOR THE NEXT LOCKDOWN:

IN 2006. Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

RELATED. Nuremberg Code.