In message <caa-f0u_nods3pyr384php4-v53qo7cjnmzd0ostapmgo9gw...@mail.gmail.com>
, Pete Lancashire writes:

>Curious who came up with the SC cut first ?

I think I saw that mentioned in a BSTJ article I read recently.

I'm reading them all, end to end, so don't ask me which one...

Go here: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/

Search for "quartz" or any other interesting word, but only if you
have nothing important to do for a couple of hours...

My favorite so far:

The incredible short timespan from somebody noticed that a diode
with a scratch in the black coating produced a voltage when light
hit it, until the launched a satellite covered in solar cells...

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