paleonet On a lighter but not unrelated note

[Roy Plotnick <plotnick@xxxxxxx>]

In the most recent issue of  American Heritage of Invention and 
Technology (Fall 2005), there is an article about the history of the 
humble toaster.  It contains the following sentence "As with many 
immature but promising technologies, toaster evolution saw a Cambrian 
explosion of diverse and sometimes bizarre configurations and designs."

- Roy

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Roy E. Plotnick
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University of Illinois at Chicago
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"The scientific celebrities, forgetting their molluscs and glacial  periods, gossiped about art, while devoting themselves to oysters  and ices with characteristic energy.." -Little Women, Louisa  May Alcott