In
an era of monumental political stupidity at an unprecedented
presidential height, of racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia in
Europe and the United States, of hatred and wholesale butchery and
slaughter on an abattoir-scale of Christians and their fellow Muslims throughout the Arab
world of North Africa - especially in Libya, Egypt, Nigeria, The
Sahel, across the Levant Syria, Iraq and elsewhere – and where the
flames of democracy, justice, civil rights, freedom of thought,
expression and sexuality are being extinguished by exhortations from
what was once regarded as the leadership of the free world, I could
not resist to include the article below, as encouragement and support
to all whose disabilities may now be mocked openly – with sanction
from the highest political authority you can imagine – that the
struggle must continue:
'
A Luta Continua!'
[The
motto of the story below is that it is not the money – but knowing
where to leave the chalk mark. Henry Ford no doubt learned a valuable lesson from the encounter.]
Patrick
Emek
now
read
on...............................................................................................................
Important
Quotes
“There
are no foolish questions, and nobody becomes a fool until they stop
asking questions.”
“Money
is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only
universal measure we have.”
Charles
Steinmetz
1865
– 1923
Charles
Steinmetz stood four feet tall with a humped back. Now virtually
unknown, he was a brilliant German mathematician and engineer in the
1890’s and early 1900’s. A devout socialist with capitalist
tendencies, he had no problem charging huge fees for his services. A
friend of Albert Einstein, he rode to work every day on a bicycle
wearing a suit and a top hat. Steinmetz moved to America at age 24.
His
work with electricity was monumental. His calculations and
experiments allowed electricity to become safer, stable and more
widely used.
Henry
Ford enlisted his help with electrical problems, hiring Steinmetz to
fix a troubled generator.
Steinmetz
arrived without tools and began staring at and listening to the
generator, doing it for two days. He finally climbed up a ladder and
made a chalk mark on the side of the generator. He told Ford
employees to replace certain parts at the chalk mark. The generator
was fixed.
Henry
Ford was happy, but almost fell on the floor when he got a bill for
what he considered a simple task – $10,000. Ford, at first
refused to pay, saying he wanted Steinmetz to itemize his bill.
Steinmetz
did just that. He told Ford that the chalk mark was one dollar.
The other $9,999 was for knowing where to put the mark.
A
rare 1921 photo taken at a tour of an RCA wireless station in New
Jersey. Steinmetz is in the middle with Albert Einstein to the
left.
The
above article and photograph are courtesy of
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