-True, Edward Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine.
Rural folk understood the principle much earlier. A former milkmaid, in fact, told Jenner she couldn't get smallpox because she'd had cowpox. That showed him the way to go.
-A Georgia belle named Mrs. Catherine Littlefield Greene conceived of the idea for the cotton gin, designed it, perfected it , financed it and marketed it. Such is now known.
That she got Eli Whitney to help her put the thing together is also in the record.
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Otto, you have a bit of what we in NYC call "chutzpah" in you!
l.l.
A friend explained Chutzpah, thanks
and as far as i know, it was truly mary anderson who invented windshield wipers in 1903. :o)
And do you see how you have it?
Kirsten,
You are funny.
l.l.,
Chutzpah is a new word to me. It will take time for meaning to sink in.
Thanks for the conpliment. Sometimes it gets me in trouble.
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