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Time Magazine: Man of the Millennium

Gerry Quinn gerryq at indigo.ie
Tue Sep 29 05:52:35 EST 1998


In article <MPG.107905ecb9b1e91d9896e5 at nntp.mindspring.com>, qed at pobox.com (Paul Hsieh) wrote:

>
>I mean who are you going to compare against?  Edison?  According to some 
>history books, he spent a few years searching for what ended up being 
>Tungsten.  But the truth is, he commissioned lots of people to do that 
>actual hunting, and he did not envision that amount of time it would take 
>to find it from the outset.  Furthermore, I don't think he expended a lot 
>of mental energy looking for it.
>

That leads me to another nominee: Henry Ford, generally considered to 
be the father of mass production.  But again, this may be the recency 
effect.

- Gerry

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