#3 - "Gearing Up II"

#4 was the semiconductor! Well done my semi-conductor friends - Peyton, Michelle, Milt, Joani, and Mike. Elaine claims she never got the blog. . .

"Gearing Up II"

Still in Slater's Mill, I found these gears waiting patiently for me. These gears are quite larger than those from last week but this is what was needed to run these mill devices smoothly - gears of all sizes. I did like the accessibility and the up and down position of these two.


Greatest Inventions of All Time!
Recently I came across an article about the greatest inventions as determined by a large group of scientists, philosophers, educators, and other professions. Their task was to create a list of "the Greatest Inventions of All Time." Conveniently, the final list numbered fifty! so, I'm starting with #50 and working my way down to Numero Uno in December.


#3

#3 was accidentally discovered in 1928, though antibiotics were not widely distributed until after World War II, when they became the silver bullet for any number of formerly deadly diseases.

One of the first and still one of the most widely used antibiotic agents, derived from mold. 

In 1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming first observed that colonies of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus failed to grow in those areas of a culture that had been accidentally contaminated by a green mold. He isolated the mold, grew it in a fluid medium, and found that it produced a substance capable of killing many of the common bacteria that infect humans.

Number Three was among the first medications to be effective against many bacterial infections caused by staphylococci and streptococci. They are still widely used today, though many types of bacterial have developed resistance following extensive use.

Murphy's Laws

O'Reilly's Law of the Kitchen. . .

Cleanliness is next to impossible.

Leaving You with a Laugh, I Hope. . .

"Go for the Juggler!