Bruce writes:

> >As an interesting aside, the Beetles funded the development of the CT
>  >scanner, albeit not directly.
>
>  Actually, EMI is a British company. Beetles are German :-). (I think Wirt
>  means "Beatles".)

As long as we're correcting one misspelling of mine, we ought to correct the
other. Albert Michaelson's name is correctly spelled "Michelson," without the
"a." My apologies.

I discovered my error (and failing memory) when I went to verify my dates
about his Virginia City story. In that regard, a little bit of his life story
can be gotten from these sites, one of which is in Poland (in that region
that was once called Prussia):

     http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/ph/sci/aam.htm
     http://physics.uwstout.edu/sotw/michelsn.htm

and there is this particularly interesting page containing a great deal of
information about Michelson I did not know:

     http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/lectures/spedlite.html

Wirt Atmar


Wirt Atmar