To: Skooz
But he died penniless and insane, still trying to make a phonograph needle out of a peanut. Wrong. You're mixing up Booker T. Washington with George Washington Carver. Carver worked with Booker T. at Tuskegee. But there's nothing to Carver inventing any phonograph needle.
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103 posted on
10/21/2005 1:12:33 PM PDT by
rdb3
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To: rdb3
Dang!
You're right.
That was a long time ago.
Thanks.
105 posted on
10/21/2005 1:13:28 PM PDT by
Skooz
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To: rdb3
But there's nothing to Carver inventing any phonograph needle. Eddie Murphy SNL skit from the 80s.
106 posted on
10/21/2005 1:14:53 PM PDT by
Skooz
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