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...hundred and twenty-six years ago this year, the bicycle was conceived and invented by Mac Millan Kirkpatrick, a Scottish blacksmith...
Shacho-San Is Oya)!. The man behind the company's success is 60-year-old Shacho-san (President) Soichiro Honda, who thinks of his racing-car engines as "moving laboratories." Honda, the eldest of seven sons of an impoverished blacksmith, grew up in a tiny village 140 miles southwest of Tokyo, dropped out of school at 13, developed an early interest in engines. He opened his own auto repair shop at 22, raced cars, set national speed records, then quit the track at 31 after a serious smashup. Recuperating from his injuries, Honda conceived plans for his own motor...
...George Rice, 21, Louisiana State, 6 ft. 3 in., 255 lbs. Barnes, some scouts insist, is the nation's No. 1 college player: "If Jimmy Brown could get through him, he'd really be earning his pay." Rice is "a kid with the arms of a blacksmith. He knocks enemy guards flat on their butts with just a flick of his elbow...
Today, many Nigerians of the region practice the deadly juju; some still swear only on hunks of iron in fealty to their blacksmith god, Ogun. But the tradition and skills that created the masterpieces are lost. What remains in Africa is enshrined in Nigeria's museums, a testament to past perfection and proud accomplishment illuminating what for centuries was considered the very heart of darkness...
...scientific lectures, and at 21 he suffered a fateful stroke of luck. He caught the eye of Sir Humphrey Davy, the greatest chemist in England, who hired him as an assistant and whisked him off to the Continent on a Grand Tour that lasted 18 months and introduced the blacksmith's boy to many of the greatest intellects of the era. Back in England, Davy established Faraday as superintendent of apparatus in the laboratory of the Royal Institution...