Humorous CRT story

[zenith2134]

Haven't you heard? It's all magic.

Weak horizontal drive? Forgot to feed the troupe for a while.....

[steerpike2]

We had a teacher at school who used to remind us that Evangelista Torricelli was the greatest scientist to have nothing named after him.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by steerpike2

Evangelista Torricelli was the greatest scientist to have nothing named after him.

No, there was a US congressman from New Jersey named Torricelli.

[TubeType]

Originally Posted by steerpike2

We had a teacher at school who used to remind us that Evangelista Torricelli was the greatest scientist to have nothing named after him.

Let's see, there's Torricelli's Law and the Torr, a unit of pressure, were named in honor of Evangelista Torricelli.

Terry Cheek

[leadlike]

I don't know-the poor Torr is usually an orphaned unit, as most books seem to use millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). They are basically equivalent units, so it is a little excessive to have two units of measurement that do the same thing...

Which brings us back to our original subject-crts! Yeah!