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...turn their mind to practical things. In some centuries the tinkerers are more influential. The 15th, for example, was important for Gutenberg building his printing press and Columbus setting sail; the 19th for Fulton and his steamboat, Morse and his code, Bell and his telephone, Edison and his light bulb. But in other centuries the pure thinkers were more influential. The 17th, for example, boasted Newton, Galileo, Descartes and Locke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinkers vs. Tinkerers, and Other Debates | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Both authors offer elegantly literary tales of disintegration and the irretrievable alienation of affection, putting their relationships under the equivalent of a fluorescent bulb that makes every detail off-color, a little bit dirty--but very, very visible, for better and for worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bittersweet Sorrows | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...many Harvard girls does it take to screw in a light bulb? First of all, it's Radcliffe. Second of all, it's women. And third of all, it's a theater festival. The Boston Women On Top Theater Festival features multiple acts every night. Through Sunday. Black Box Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., Boston. 426-0320. Thursday-Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 7 p.m., Saturday late-night cabaret 10:30 p.m. Individual admissions $12 students, festival pass $35, staged readings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRIDAY MAR 19 | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...Linsey Marr '96, senior project inspiration stood right in her common room. Working with a Boston design firm, she refitted a halogen lamp (not yet the bane of the FDO) with a fluorescent bulb and a more efficient reflector. The result used one-third the power and produced more light than the original, but you still couldn't dry your clothes...

Author: By Debra P. Hunter and Richard Parr, S | Title: IN THE MEANTIME Patent No. 02138 | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...Linsey Marr '96, senior project inspiration stood right in her common room. Working with a Boston design firm, she refitted a halogen lamp (not yet the bane of the FDO) with a fluorescent bulb and a more efficient reflector. The result used one-third the power and produced more light than the original, but you still couldn't dry your clothes...

Author: By With DEBRA P. hunter and Richard Parr, S | Title: Patent No. 02138: A Brief History of Undergraduate Inventions | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

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