THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Advances since the takeoff of industrial society (which took hold in Britain around 1800) have multiplied the developed world’s productive capacity by a factor of one hundred or more, if one can compare products as different as wagons and aircraft, or books and computers.”

— K. Eric Drexler

BIRTHDAYS:

1704 John Kay, English inventor (developed the flying shuttle).

1722 Joseph Wilton, English sculptor (known for works in Westminster Abbey).

1723 Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter.

1746 Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (discovered the first asteroid, Ceres).

1796 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter.

1822 Luigi Arditi, Italian violinist and composer. Il bacio

1918 George Mueller, NASA systems engineer (key role in managing the 1969 Moon landing).

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