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They didn’t specially mention NASA in their comment. You know of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, but have you heard of Lewis Latimer? Probably not.
by danielg6 7y ago
They didn’t specially mention NASA in their comment. You know of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, but have you heard of Lewis Latimer? Probably not.
- throwaway39AZ 7y ago> You know of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, but have you heard of Lewis Latimer? His work was not as significant. Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Howard_Latimer#Technical_work_and_inventions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Howard_Latimer#Technical... to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Edison_patents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Edison_patents and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nikola_Tesla_patents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nikola_Tesla_patents
- danielg6 7y agoOk. You know of Sally Ride but not Mae Jemison. Their work is equivalent. You know of Watson and Crick, but not Rosalind Franklin. By you, I mean the general you.
- throwaway39AZ 7y agoI do know of Mae Jemison and Rosalind Franklin. Mae Jemison and Sally Ride, and Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick have a similar number of page views on Wikipedia, so I think they are all generally known about as well as each other. Maurice Wilkins less so.