On 26 April 2012 11:08, <time-nuts-request@febo.com> wrote: > Send time-nuts mailing list submissions to >        time-nuts@febo.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >        https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >        time-nuts-request@febo.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at >        time-nuts-owner@febo.com > Ed Palmer wrote: > but I don't think pop rivets had been invented when > they built this thing! :-D Just as a matter of interest, the humble pop-rivet was first patented in 1917 by Hamilton Neil Wylie, a Royal Navy Reservist and an improved version in 1927 when he was working for Armstrong-Whitworth, then a UK aircraft manufacturer. I don't think that the Quartz Crystal standard had been invented in 1917........ Geoff -- ################################################# Geoff Blake,   G8GNZ    JO01fq:   Chelmsford,  Essex,  UK <geoff@palaemon.co.uk>    or   <melecerties@gmail.com> Using Linux: Ubuntu 11.04 on Intel or Debian on UltraSparc and even on the NAS.     Avoiding Micro$oft like the plague. #################################################

Wow! I stand corrected. I had no idea that they were that old. Thanks, Ed On 4/26/2012 3:20 PM, Geoff Blake wrote: > Ed Palmer wrote: > >> but I don't think pop rivets had been invented when >> they built this thing! :-D > Just as a matter of interest, the humble pop-rivet was first patented > in 1917 by Hamilton Neil Wylie, a Royal Navy Reservist and an > improved version in 1927 when he was working for Armstrong-Whitworth, > then a UK aircraft manufacturer. > > I don't think that the Quartz Crystal standard had been invented in 1917........ > > Geoff >