On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:56:04 -0700, with neither quill nor qualm,
"Roger Shoaf" quickly quoth:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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Smart man, that Tom guy.

He was also known for outsmarting himself. He got mad that his engineers
were pilfering from his cigar box on his desk so he had his tobacconist make
up some real nasty stogies with bits of string etc.

Evidently the word got around pretty quick because the story goes that
Edison ended up smoking most of them himself before he realized that the
cigars he had been smoking were the nasty ones he had ordered.

ROTFLMAO!


I made it a point in high school to read all the biographies of all the
great inventors. Here is a link to a free e-book that is real good. It is
the biography of several movers and shakers in England's industrial
revolution.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/404

Ancient History ca. 1863, eh? Excellent! Thanks, Roger.

The online book thing is a great idea, making entire libraries
available to the public everywhere. Now if it weren't so bloody
hard to read an entire book onscreen... Praise goes to the gods
for the ability to raise the size of screen text in browsers!

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