>Roger Bailey wrote: > >> Some really smart person could automate this. Mount the moon dial on a well >> connected to the sea. The height of water in the well would vary with the >> tides. This could be used to drive a mechanism to shift the dial to correct >> for the lunar equation of time. Do I have an invention here? Rube Goldberg >> probably beat me to the patent office.
Rube Goldberg? Is he the US equivalent of William Heath Robinson? (inventor/illustrator of fantastic machines - in UK). Off topic I know but this gives me a slender (very) excuse to ask if any list member knows a comprehensive source of Heath Robinson quotations? For some time now I've been trying to confirm him as the originator of the design dictum "Simplicate and add more lightness!" but the book I'm sure I found it in years ago defies all searches. Tony Moss.
