Reading this list just gives me a head-rush of joyous giddiness. Take that, craven old conservatives and naysayers! "Men might as well project a voyage to the

Reading this list just gives me a head-rush of joyous giddiness. Take that, craven old conservatives and naysayers! "Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean." - Dr. Dionysus Lardner (1793-1859), Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at University College, London.