Re: Paul Wing is going to be 84!!

[P3D Greg Erker <erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> Paul Wing was born in Sandwich, Massachusetts on March 9, 1913. There
>were no
>> world wars, no computers, no email, no fax machines, no television sets, no
>> microwaves, no jet planes, no lasers, no scanning electron microscopes, no
>> color film, no one hour processing, no McDonalds, no Motel 6, no PSA, no NSA,
>> no ISU, no PHSNE, no color film, no direct dial long distance - and no cheap
>> long distance   telephone rates. The world was a different place than we know
>> it today. And then Paul entered the world.
>
>Please permit me to pit a nit: color film did exist. In France, the
>Lumieres were producing Autochrome. If I had my books handy I'd tell you
>more about it. But I'm visiting my brother in Boston...

  And wasn't the facimile machine invented in the late 1800's?
I seem to recall that from the great British show "How Things
Work".

Greg E.



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