Water A Flower Day – Wow, I'm
getting it from all sides today. My husband is always on my case
because I remember to water my vegetable garden but I never think
about the poor flowers. Usually because I'm in a hurry to get to
work or get away from the mosquitos so I only water the “important”
things. I know, I know, flowers are important too. Sheesh, I'll
water them already.
Loomis Day – This is a day
dedicated to people who think outside the box like Mahlon Loomis, a
dentist and the inventor of artificial teeth in 1854, was also the
earliest inventor of a wireless telegraph in 1872. His idea worked,
but not for the reasons he thought. He was using kites with metal
wires instead of string as antennas and thought that if the kites
were flown at the same level in the atmosphere, the messages could be
transmitted between them. It worked, but it worked because of the
length of the wire, not the height of the kite. I don't understand
it all, but I do know that Congress wasn't buying the whole concept
so even though he got a patent for his idea, it didn't end up going
anywhere. He may not have been totally successful, but his ideas
sparked a trend that led to the technology we have today.
http://www.carnetdevol.org/Wireless/loomis.html
To celebrate today, water some flowers
and then spend the rest of the day coming up with a crazy idea that
just might work. See what you can do to make it happen.
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