"Stan Sieler" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
news:3e24bd8a$1@skycache-news.fidnet.com...
> Re:
> > Because I'm more sensitive to the situation now, I've been looking for
some
> > indication of the impact of science fiction on "real" science. I've
mentioned
> > before that in 40 years of attending scientific meetings, I've never
once
> > heard of a science fiction author being quoted, other than Arthur C.
Clarke's
> > communications satellites, HAL, and Carl Sagan's Ellie Arroway. I may
have to
> > slightly revise that statement now.
>
> If you're reading this on a CRT, thank your lucky stars that Hugo
Gernsback
> wrote science fiction.
>
> He described television (and coined the word, apparently) in short stories
in
> his radio/scientific magazines.  Later, one was found by a young kid ...
> by the name of Philo T. Farnsworth.  It inspired him, and a couple of
years

My wife is a 6th cousin to Philo T Farnsworth. Lots of other celebrities and
personalities are descended from his ancestors Robert White and Bridget
Allgar.

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