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| PTsideshow:
As to the notice about steam powered air planes, I have know knowledge of the incident mentioned I can post this link. http://www.stanleysteamers.com/papers/Besler-aviation.pdf Their was at one time a u tube vid the location is now private. It was about the Besler-aviation. there also for a time back in the day a large body of published info and planes on model steam air planes. Most were in the hobby magazines of the day, a number are in the current reprints of some of the older steam hobby books. |
| dsquire:
Glen I think that I may have found the video that you are talking about or it is something else related to the same subject. Cheers :beer: Don |
| S. Heslop:
Aspartame, the sweetener, is another one. "Aspartame was discovered in 1965 by James M. Schlatter, a chemist working for G.D. Searle & Company. Schlatter had synthesized aspartame as an intermediate step in generating a tetrapeptide of the hormone gastrin, for use in assessing an anti-ulcer drug candidate.[18] He accidentally discovered its sweet taste when he licked his finger, which had become contaminated with aspartame, to lift up a piece of paper.[7][19][20]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame#Discovery_and_approval I guess he's lucky he didn't accidentally discover it was highly toxic instead. |
| PTsideshow:
Don close enough for government work! The other didn't have the snappy music :ddb: |
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