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This is a classic 1958 spanish film. 30 glorious seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-w7JCTOpwU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-w7JCTOpwU "Do I owe y
by pantulis 5y ago
This is a classic 1958 spanish film. 30 glorious seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-w7JCTOpwU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-w7JCTOpwU
"Do I owe you something?" "That's 100 pesetas". "100 pesetas just for tightening a screw?" "No, that's free. It's 100 pesetas for knowing which screw needed to be tightened".
- mc32 5y agoI think that’s a riff in Steinmetz’s bill[1] to the Ford Motor company for fixing a generator. “ According to Scott, Steinmetz listened to the generator and scribbled computations on the notepad … Then he told Ford’s skeptical engineers to remove a plate at the mark and replace sixteen windings from the field coil. They did, and the generator performed to perfection. Henry Ford was thrilled until he got an invoice from General Electric in the amount of $10,000. Ford acknowledged Steinmetz’s success but balked at the figure. He asked for an itemized bill. Steinmetz, Scott wrote, responded personally to Ford’s request with the following: Making chalk mark on generator $1. Knowing where to make mark $9,999. Ford paid the bill.” [1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinmetz-the-wizard-of-schenectady-51912022/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-stein...
- dtech 5y agoThis story/joke is so old and I've heard it in so many contexts that I doubt it really happened.
- mc32 5y agoThis story probably happened —maybe not exactly as told here; however, the framework of someone making something ordinary valuable through precise application of knowledge is likely older than Steinmetz.