It was some time in 1958, when I thought of upgrading my qualifications that I read a book 'Ideas That Changed the World'. This colloection of essays had ever been STUCK on my mind, being the struggle people undergo, who have the mind to reform or change things, asking: WHY things are as they appear?
I had not realised I shall have to be in their SHOE.
Regards,
Brij B. Vij TIME: to think Metric!<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <And Calendar too>
From: "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:24430] RE: the U.S., etc. Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:52:51 -0500Following on from the postings of Carl Sorenson, Terry Simpson and Stephen Davis, I am reminded that, as a boy, I was a regular reader of Popular Science. I learned that the inventions that have transformed the world were American. When I went to England I found that no, they were made by Britons. I then visited the Deutsches Museum in M�nchen and learned that most of the modern inventions had been made by Germans. In Paris I found in the Palais de la D�couverte, on the contrary, that the inventions had been made by Frenchmen. I have not visited Russia. It was commonly said in England in the 1930 "The Japanese are good copiers, but they have no originality". -- Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Telephone 416-486-6071
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