Then and now

[Nimnim]

Thought of another one, William Banting. I'd like to see what he would have thought of the current state of dieting in our culture.

 

[ajblakejr]

Marie Curie

 

[bbsam]

Harold Lloyd and Groucho Marx. Too funny!

 

[Big Babooba]

Edison so that he could see our technological advances.

Curie so that she could see our medical advances.

Ray Bradbury so that he could see just how intuitive he was with 1984.

Muhammad Ali vs Mike Tyson when both were in their prime.

Babe Ruth hitting against Steven Strasburg.

On a somber note, any of the Founding Fathers so that they could tearfully see just how far away we have strayed from the principles upon which this nation was founded.

I'm sure that you meant George Orwell.

 

[brown bomber]

Jim Casey...........he's rolling in his grave

 

[rod]

Jim Casey...........he's rolling in his grave

I can hear his reaction: W-T-friend!!!!!!!! happened to my company?

 

[fxdwg]

Dr. Richard Gatling

Alfred Hitchcock

 

[ajblakejr]

Dr. Richard Gatling

Alfred Hitchcock

I will revolve around the idea.
And I think Alfred would love the special effects.

 

[DS]

In 1867, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin printer-publisher-politician named Christopher Latham Sholes, with assistance from Carlos Glidden and Samuel Soule, patented what was to be the first useful typewriter. He licensed his patent to Remington & Sons of Ilion, New York, a noted American gun maker. In 1874, the Remington Model 1, the first commercial typewriter, was placed on the market.


Based on Sholes’ mechanical typewriter, the first electric type