[SEL] happy birthday

[John Culp]

Yesterday was Les Paul's 90th birthday. He's still doing gigs at 8:00 
and 10:00 every Monday night at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City.

The world's a better place for Otto engines and Les Paul guitars. :-)

John

On Jun 10, 2005, at 8:49 AM, derek wrote:

> Nikolaus August Otto   Born 10 June 1832; died 26 Jan 1891.
> German engineer who developed the four-stroke internal-combustion 
> engine, which offered the first practical alternative to the steam 
> engine as a power source. A French engineer, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, 
> formulated the basic design for the four-stroke internal combustion 
> engine and patented it in 1862, but never built a working model. In 
> 1876, Otto used principles from Beau de Rochas and others to construct 
> the prototype of today's automobile engines, often called the 
> Otto-cycle engine. He sold thousands of copies before Beau de Rochas 
> sued him and invalidated Otto's patent. But light, efficient 
> Otto-cycle engines largely enabled the creation of automobiles, 
> powerboats, motorcycles and even airplanes.


John Culp
Bristol, Tennessee, USA