[plug] Daylight Rubbish [V-OT now]

[Margaret Wood]

Benjamin Franklin may have suggested Daylight Saving but he wasn't the
one who pushed for it, and first got it implemented - that was William
Willett in the UK

On 12/12/06, Shannon Carver <shannon.carver at gmail.com> wrote:
> What's even more interesting is, is he had have died on that fateful night
> how long would it have taken for his ideas to take on?  Or for someone else
> to discover the same thing?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> > Of Alex Polglaze
> > Sent: Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:06 AM
> > To: plug at plug.org.au
> > Subject: Re: [plug] Daylight Rubbish
> >
> >
> > > Wasn't he that silly man who went out and flew a kite in a storm, and
> > > got struck by lightning?
> > He certainly was. He wanted to prove that lightening was electricity,
> > used a silk thread as a kite string and tied a house key near the end.
> > Then he used the back of his hand to get a spark from the key to his hand.
> >
> > Very bloody dangerous if you ask me, and he lived to tell the tale, but
> > then in those days they didn't know.
> >
> > The pursuit of knowledge.
> >
> > What a cause.
> >
> >
> > Alex
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