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Alfred Beach
(1 Sep 1826 - 1 Jan 1896)
American inventor and publisher who bought the six-month-old Scientific American and as its editor was responsible for its rapid growth..
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Science Quotes by Alfred Beach (1 quote)
Mr. Thomas A. Edison recently came into this office, placed a little machine on our desk, turned a crank, and the machine enquired as to our health, asked how we liked the phonograph, informed us that it was well, and bid us a cordial good night. These remarks were not only perfectly audible to ourselves, but to a dozen or more persons gathered around.
— Alfred Beach
Scientific American (22 Dec 1877). Quoted in By John Henry Pepper, The Boy's Playbook of Science, Revised (1881), 251.
See also:
- 1 Sep - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Beach's birth.
- New York Pneumatic Tunnel - The Broadway Tunnel - Alfred Beach
- 26 Feb - short description, births, deaths and events on date of the opening of the Pneumatic Transit.
- Labyrinths of Iron: A History of the World's Subways, by Benson Bobrick. - book suggestion.
- New York's Secret Subway, by Oliver E. Allen, American Heritage Invention & Technology magazine (Winter 1977), 12, No. 3.
- Alfred Ely Beach And His Wonderful Pneumatic Underground Railway, by Robert Daley, American Heritage magazine (June 1961), 12, No. 4.
- Secret Subway: The Fascinating Tale of an Amazing Feat of Engineering, by Martin W. Sandler. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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