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Works

 * At the works: a study of a manufacturing town (1907)
 * The Way the Money Goes: a play in three acts (1910)
 * Fairy Tale Plays and how to Act Them (1910)
 * Theatre de la Jeunesse. Twelve Little French Plays for Schoolroom and Drawing-room.
 * Chamber Comedies: a Collection of Plays and Monologues for the Drawing-Room
 * Petit Theatre des Enfants. Twelve Tiny French Plays for Children
 * Nursery Comedies. Twelve Tiny Plays for Children.
 * The Cat and the Fiddle Book; eight dramatised nursery rhymes for nursery performers (1922)


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 —Tread lightly on his ashes, ye men of genius,—for he was your kinsman:

Weed his grave clean, ye men of goodness,—for he was your brother.—Oh corporal! had I thee, but now,—now, that I am able to give thee a dinner and protection,—how would I cherish thee! thou should'st wear they Montero-cap every hour of the day, and every day of the week,—and when it was worn out, I would purchase thee a couple like it:—But alas! alas! alas! now that I can do this, in spight of their reverences—the occasion is lost—for thou art gone;—thy genius fled up to the stars from whence it came;—and that warm heart of thine, with all its generous and open vessels, compressed into a clod of the valley!

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 —But what—what is this, to that future and dreaded page, where I look towards the velvet pall, decorated with the military ensigns of thy master—the first—the foremost of created beings;—where, I shall see thee, faithful servant! laying his sword and scabbard with a trembling hand across his coffin, and then returning pale as ashes to the door, to take his mourning horse by the bridle, to follow his hearse, as he directed thee;—where—all my father's systems shall be baffled by his sorrows; and, in spight of his philosophy, I shall behold him, as he inspects the lackered plate, twice taking his spectacles from off his nose, to wipe away the dew which nature has shed upon them—When I see him cast in the rosemary with an air of disconsolation, which cries though my ears,—O Toby! in what corner of the world shall I seek thy fellow?


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 —Gracious powers! which erst have opened the lips of the dumb in his distress, and made the tongue of the stammerer speak plain—when I shall arrive at this dreaded page, deal not with me, then, with a stinted hand.

corporal, who the night before had resolved in his mind, to supply the grand desideratum, of keeping up something like an incessant firing upon the enemy during the heat of the attack,—had no further idea in his fancy at that time, than a contrivance of smoaking tobacco against the town, out of one of my uncle Toby's six field pieces, which were planted on each side of his sentry-box; the means of effecting which occurring to his fancy at the same time, though he had pledged his cap, he


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 thought it in no danger from the miscarriage of his projects.

Upon turning it this way, and that, a little in his mind, he soon began to find out, that by means of his two Turkish tobacco-pipes, with the supplement of three smaller tubes of wash-leather at each of their lower ends, to be tagg'd by the same number of tin pipes fitted to the touch holes, and sealed with clay next the cannon, and then tied hermetically with waxed silk at their several insertions into the Morocco tube,—he should be able to fire the six field pieces all together, and with the same ease as to fire one.

—Let no man say from what taggs and jaggs hints may not be cut out for the advancement of human knowledge. Let no man who has read my father's first and second beds of justice, ever rise up and say again, from collision of what


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 kinds of bodies, light may, or may not be struck out, to carry the arts and sciences up to perfection.—Heaven! thou knowest how I love them;—thou knowest the secrets of my heart, and that I would this moment give my shift—Thou art a fool, Shandy, says Eugenius,—for thou hast but a dozen in the world,—and 'twill break thy set.

No matter for that, Eugenius; I would give the shirt off my back to be burnt into tinder, were it only to satisfy one feverish enquirer, how many sparks at one good stroke, a good flint and steel could strike into the tail of it.—Think ye not that in striking these in,—he might, peradventure, strike something out? as sure as a gun.

—But this project, by the bye.

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 and having made a sufficient proof of his cannon, with charging them to the top with tobacco,—he went with contentment to bed.

corporal had slipped out about ten minutes before my uncle Toby, in order to fix his apparatus, and just give the enemy a shot or two before my uncle Toby came.

He had drawn the six field-pieces for this end, all close up together in front of my uncle Toby's sentry box, leaving only an interval of about a yard and a half betwixt the three, on the right and left, for the convenience of charging, &c.—and the sake possibly of two batteries, which he might think double the honour of one.

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 Sacheverell, Robert (Saycheverell); B.A. 19 Jan., 1523-4, B.C.L. supd. 28 Jan., 1528-9, B.Can.L. 18 July, 1530.  Sacheverell, Thomas, of co. Leicester, arm. , matric. entry under date 1572, aged 17; perhaps B.C.L. 24 Nov., 1579, vicar of Eynsham, Oxon, 1585. See Foster's Index Eccl.  Sacheverell, Timothy, s. John, of East Stoke, Dorset, sac. ., matric. 19 May, 1637, aged 17; B.A. from. 25 Feb., 1640-1; nonconformist divine, rector of Tarrant Hinton, Dorset, until ejected in 1662, removed to Winterburn, thence to Enford, Wilts, and finally to Devizes; died in 1680; brother of John 1633. See Calamy, ii. 157.  Sacheverell, William, s. Th(omas), of Bolscott, Oxon, gent. ., matric. 3 Nov., 1674, aged 20; possibly bar.-at-law, Gray's Inn, 1679, as of Morley, co. Derby. See Foster's Judges and Barristers.  Sackett, John; B.A. from ., Cambridge, 1617-18, M.A. 1621 (incorporated 9 July, 1622), B.D. 1628, rector of Betteshanger 1626-8, of Great Mongeham 1628, and of Eastbridge (all Kent) 1628-46. See Foster's Graduati Cantab. & Foster's Index Eccl.  [5]

Sacket, Stephen; B.A. 25 June, 1631, vicar of St. Cosmos in Blean, Canterbury, 1631, and of WestHythe, Kent, 1633. See Foster's Index Eccl.  Sackville, Edward, born in London, baronis fil. , matric. 26 July, 1605, aged 15; M.A. Cambridge 1612; incorporated 9 July, 1616, 4th earl of Dorset (s. Robert, baron Buckhurst, afterwards 2nd earl of Dorset), K.B. at the creation of Charles, Prince of Wales, 4 Nov., 1616, M.P. Sussex, 1621-2, K.G. 1625, P.C. 1626, lord chamberlain of the king's household at Oxford 1644-6; died 17 or 18 July, 1652; brother of Richard 1605. See Fasti, i. 320; & Ath. iii. 312.  Sackvyle, Henry, born in London, baronis fil. , matric. entry dated 22 June, 1582, aged 14; son of Thomas. Earl of Dorset (1604), and brother of Thomas 1582, and of William, and Robert 1576.

Sackvile, (Sir) John, of Sussex, arm. fil. ., matric. 21 Oct., 1608, aged 17; (2s. John, of Selscomb, Sussex), knighted 16 April, 1628; perhaps M.P. Rye 1625 and 1626; brother of Thomas 1608. See Foster's Parliamentary Dictionary.

Sackeville, John, s. Thomas, of Bibury, co. Gloucester, militis. ., matric. 9 Nov., 1632, aged 16; student of Middle Temple1635. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.
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Sackvill, John, 1s. Thomas, of Selscombe, Sussex, knight of the bath. , matric. 3 Nov., 1637, aged 17; brother of Thomas 1637.

Sackvill, Richard, born in London, baronis fil. , matric. 26 July, 1605, aged 16; student of Inner Temple 1609, as Lord Buckhurst, 3rd Earl of Dorset (son of Robert, 2nd earl), born 28 March, 1590, chief butler of England 1609; died 28 March, 1624; brother of Edward 1605. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.

Sackvyle, Robert, born in Sussex, s. Baron Buckhurst. , matric. entry under date 17 Dec., 1576, aged 15, B.A. and M.A. 3 June, 1579; 2nd Earl of Dorset 1608, and chief butler 1608, student of Inner Temple 1580, M.P. Sussex 1585-6, Lewes 1588-9, Sussex 1593, 1597-8, 1601, 1604-8; died 27 Feb., 1608-9; brother of Henry, Thomas, and William, 1582, and father of Edward and Richard 1605. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.

Sackvill, Samuel, B.A. from ., Cambridge, 1607-8, M.A. 1611, B.D. 1619; incorporated 13 July, 1619, rector of Hatfield Regis, Essex, 1617, vicar of Bottisham, co. Cambridge, 1620, of Blythe, Notts, 1621, of Trumpington, co. Cambridge, 1622, and of Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland, 1624. See Foster's Graduati Cantab. & Foster's Index Eccl.

Sackville, Thomas, o.s. Sir Richard; traditionally of, Oxford, and of ., Cambridge, created M.A. 30 Aug., 1571, and incorporated at Oxford about 6 Jan., 1591-2, chancellor of this university 17 Dec., 1591, until 1608; a student of the Inner Temple 1555; M.P. Westmorland 1558, East Grinstead 1559, Aylesbury 1563, until knighted and created baron of Buckhurst, Sussex, 8 June, 1567, P.C. 1585, k.g. 1589, high treasurer 1599, and created Earl of Dorset 13 March, 1603-4; died suddenly at the council table at Whitehall, 18th or 19th April, 1608, buried 26 May, in Westminster abbey; father of Thomas, Henry, and William 1582, Robert 1576. See Ath. ii. 30; Cooper, ii. 484; Foster's Parliamentary Dictionary; & Fasti, i. 256.
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Sackvyle, Thomas, born in London, baronis fil. , matric. entry dated 22 June, 1582, aged 11; B.A. 18 Feb., 1584-5; born 25 May, 1571 (4s. Thomas, afterwards Earl of Dorset), student of Inner Temple 1585, distinguished himself against the Turks in 1585, and died 28 Aug., 1646; brother of Henry and William 1582, and Robert 1576. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.

Sackvill, Thomas, of Sussex, arm. ., matric. 21 Oct., 1608, aged 18; probably son of John, of Selscomb, Sussex; knight of the bath; perhaps knighted 6 March, 1617; brother of John 1608, and father of John and Thomas 1637.

Sackvill, Thomas, 2s. Thomas, of Selscombe, Sussex, knight of the bath. , matric. 3 Nov., 1637, aged 15; M.P. East Grinstead 1689-90, and 1690, until his death shortly before 18 Jan.,1692-3; brother of John 1637. See Foster's Parliamentary Dictionary.

Sackeville, (Sir) William, born in London, baronis fil. , matric. entry 22 June, 1582, aged 12, B.A. 18 Feb., 1584-5; student of Inner Temple 1585, knighted in France by Henry IV. Oct., 1589, slain in the French wars 1591; brother of Henry and Thomas 1582, and Robert 1576. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.

Sadbery, Christopher, of Wilts, pleb. ., matric. 28 June, 1616, aged 16; B.A. 10 May, 1620, M.A. 23 Jan., 1622-3; rector of Weston-super-Mare 1632, and vicar of Congresbury, Somerset, 1662, canon of Wells 1667-8. See Foster's Index Eccl.
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Sadler, Adam, s. Adam, of Kendall, Westmorland, pleb. ., matric. 21 June, 1662, aged 18; B.A. from. 26 Jan., 1666-7.

Sadler, Antony, s. Thomas, of Chilton, Wilts, pleb. , matric. 21 March, 1627-8, aged 17, B.A. 22 March, 1631-2; curate of Bishopstoke, Hants, presented to rectory of Compton Haywas or Abbas, Dorset, but refused "by the triers" 1654, vicar of Mitcham, Surrey, 1660-9, "in much trouble," D.D. and chaplain extraordinary to the king, rector of Barwick St. James, Wilts, 1671. See Ath. iii. 1267; & Foster's Index Eccl.

Sadler, Edward; B.A. from 26 March, 1591.

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18 The NACA staff completed a program outline for conducting the manned satellite program. At that time, NACA was already actively engaged in research and study of several phases. For example, in the basic studies category effort had been expended on the study of orbits and orbit control, space physical characteristics, configuration studies, propulsion system research, human factors, structures and materials, satellite instrumentation, range requirements, and noise and vibration during reentry and exit. In addition, NACA outlined the complete program covering full-scale studies of mockups, simulators, and detail designs; full-scale vertical and orbiting flights involving unmanned, animal, and manned flights and recovery; and exploitation of the program to increase the payloads. As to the design concepts for such a program, NACA believed that the Atlas launch vehicle was adequate to meet launch-vehicle requirements for manned orbital flights; that retrograde and vernier controllable thrust could be used for orbit control; that heat-sink or lighter material could be used against reentry heating; that guidance should be ground programed with provisions for the pilot to make final adjustments; that recovery should be accomplished at sea with parachutes used for letdown; that a network of radar stations should be established to furnish continuous tracking; and that launchings be made from Cape Canaveral. It was estimated that with a simple ballistic shape accelerations would be within tolerable limits for the pilot. Temperature control, oxygen supply, noise, and vibration were considered engineering development problems, which could be solved without any special breakthroughs.

The NACA Special Committee on Space Technology held its second meeting at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, and preliminary reports were presented by the committee working groups on objectives and vehicular programs. The committee as a whole was briefed on the work that had been accomplished by the former NACA Committee on Aerodynamics over the past 6 years. It was stated that between 1952 and 1956, approximately 10 percent of NACA’s research efforts were applicable directly or indirectly to astronautics. In 1957, the percentage of space-flight research rose to 28; and at the time of the meeting, 30 percent of the aerodynamic effort and 20 percent of propulsion research was applicable to astronautics problems. The committee also heard special papers on research being conducted in fluid mechanics, satellite studies, spacecraft design proposals, boost-glide and hypersonic vehicle studies, and missiles.

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Rh with their great discoveries. The first demand made should be—Mr. Moses, before I allow you to lead me over the Red Sea, I must have you show that you are learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians upon your own subject. The plea that it is unlikely that this or that unknown person should succeed where Newton, etc. have failed, or should show Newton, etc. to be wrong, is utterly null and void. It was worthily versified by Sylvanus Morgan (the great herald who in his Sphere of Gentry gave coat armour to `Gentleman Jesus,` as he said), who sang of Copernicus as follows (1652):

Newton, etc. were once unknown; but they made themselves known by what they knew, and then brought forward what they could do; which I see is as good verse as that of Herald Sylvanus. The demand for previous knowledge disposes of twenty-nine cases out of thirty, and the thirtieth is worth listening to.

I have not set down Copernicus, Galileo, etc. among the paradoxers, merely because everybody knows them; if my list were quite complete, they would have been in it. But the reader will find Gilbert, the great precursor of sound magnetical theory; and several others on whom no censure can be cast, though some of their paradoxes are inadmissible, some unprovoked, and some capital jokes, true or false: the author of Vestiges of Creation is an instance. I expect that my old correspondent, General Perronet Thompson, will admit that his geometry is part and parcel of my plan; and also that, if that plan embraced politics, he would claim a place for his Catechism on the Corn Laws, a work at one time paradoxical, but which had more to do with the abolition of the bread-tax than Sir Robert Peel.

My intention in publishing this Budget in the Athenæum is to enable those who have been puzzled by one or two discoverers to see how they look in a lump. The only question is, has the selection been fairly made? To this my answer is, that no selection at all has been made. The books are, without exception, those which I have in my own library; and I have taken all—I mean all of the kind: Heaven forbid that I should be supposed


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6 to have no other books! But I may have been a collector, influenced in choice by bias? I answer that I never have collected books of this sort—that is, I have never searched for them, never made up my mind to look out for this book or that. I have bought what happened to come in my way at show or auction; I have retained what came in as part of the undescribed portion of miscellaneous auction lots; I have received a few from friends who found them among what they called their rubbish; and I have preserved books sent to me for review. In not a few instances the books have been bound up with others, unmentioned at the back; and for years I knew no more I had them than I knew I had Lord Macclesfield's speech on moving the change of Style, which, after I had searched shops, etc. for it in vain, I found had been reposing on my own shelves for many years, at the end of a summary of Leibnitz's philosophy. Consequently, I may positively affirm that the following list is formed by accident and circumstance alone, and that it truly represents the casualties of about a third of a century. For instance, the large proportion of works on the quadrature of the circle is not my doing: it is the natural share of this subject in the actual run of events.

[I keep to my plan of inserting only such books as I possessed in 1863, except by casual notice in aid of my remarks. I have found several books on my shelves which ought to have been inserted. These have their titles set out at the commencement of their articles, in leading paragraphs; the casuals are without this formality. ]

Before proceeding to open the Budget, I say something on my personal knowledge of the class of discoverers who square the circle, upset Newton, etc. I suspect I know more of the English class than any man in Britain. I never kept any reckoning; but I know that one year with another—and less of late years than in earlier time—I have talked to more than five in each year, giving more than a hundred and fifty specimens. Of this I am sure, that it is my own fault if they have not been a thousand. Nobody knows how they swarm, except those to whom they naturally resort. They are in all ranks and occupations, of all ages and characters. They are very earnest people, and their purpose is bonâ fide the dissemination of their paradoxes. A great many—the mass, indeed—are illiterate, and a great many waste their means, and are in or approaching penury. But I must say that never, in any one instance, has the quadrature of the circle, of


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Rh the like, been made a pretext for begging; even to be asked to purchase a book is of the very rarest occurrence—it has happened, and that is all.

These discoverers despise one another: if there were the concert among them which there is among foreign mendicants, a man who admitted one to a conference would be plagued to death. I once gave something to a very genteel French applicant, who overtook me in the street, at my own door, saying he had picked up my handkerchief: whether he picked it up in my pocket for an introduction, I know not. But that day week came another Frenchman to my house, and that day fortnight a French lady; both failed, and I had no more trouble. The same thing happened with Poles. It is not so with circle-squarers, &c.: they know nothing of each other. Some will read this list, and will say I am right enough, generally speaking, but that there is an exception, if I could but see it.

I do not mean, by my confession of the manner in which I have sinned against the twenty-four hours, to hold myself out as accessible to personal explanation of new plans. Quite the contrary: I consider myself as having made my report, and being discharged from further attendance on the subject. I will not, from henceforward, talk to any squarer of the circle, trisector of the angle, duplicator of the cube, constructor of perpetual motion, subverter of gravitation, stagnator of the earth, builder of the universe, &c. I will receive any writings or books which require no answer, and read them when I please: I will certainly preserve them—this list may be enlarged at some future time.

There are three subjects which I have hardly anything upon; astrology, mechanism, and the infallible way of winning at play. I have never cared to preserve astrology. The mechanists make models, and not books. The infallible winners—though I have seen a few—think their secret too valuable, and prefer mutare quadrata rotundis—to turn dice into coin—at the gaming-house: verily they have their reward.

I shall now select, to the mystic number seven, instances of my personal knowledge of those who think they have discovered, in illustration of as many misconceptions.

1. Attempt by help of the old philosophy, the discoverer not being in possession of modern knowledge. A poor schoolmaster, in rags, introduced himself to a scientific friend with whom I was talking, and announced that he had found out the composition of the sun. 'How was that done?'—'By consideration of the four elements.'—'What are they?'—'Of course, fire, air, earth, and


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Rh cut up this hartebeest. Its flesh moves, its flesh snatches itself out of our hand. If of itself places itself nicely.”

They take up the flesh of the mantis; they say to the child: “Carry the hartebeest's head, that father may put it to roast for you.” The child slung on the hartebeest's head, she called to her sisters: “Taking hold, help me up ; this hartebeest's head is not light.” Her sisters taking hold of her help her up.

They go away, they return (home). The hartebeest's head slips downwards, because the mantis's head wishes to stand on the ground. The child lifts it up (with her shoulders), the hartebeest's head (by turning a little) removes the thong from the hartebeest's eye. The hartebeest's head was whispering, it whispering said to the child: “O child! the thong is standing in front of my eye. Take away for me the thong; the thong is shutting my eye.” The child looked behind her; the mantis winked at the child. The child whimpered; her elder sister looked back at her. Her elder sister called to her: “Come forward quickly ; we return (home).”

The child exclaimed : “This hartebeest's head is able to speak.” Her elder sister scolded her: “Lying come forward; we go. Art thou not coming deceiving (us) about the hartebeest's head?”

The child said to her elder sister: “The hartebeest has winked at me with the hartebeest's eye; the hartebeest desired that I should take away the thong from his eye. Thus it was that the hartebeest's head lay looking behind my back.” The child looked back at the hartebeest's head, the hartebeest opened and shut its eyes. The child said to her elder sister: “The hartebeest's head must be alive, for it is opening and shutting its eyes.”

The child, walking on, unloosened the thong; the child let fall the hartebeest's head. The mantis scolded the child, he complained about his head. He scolded the child: “Oh! oh! my head! Oh! bad little person! hurting me in my head.”

Her sisters let fall the flesh of the mantis. The flesh of the mantis sprang together, it quickly joined itself to the lower part of the mantis's back. The head of the mantis quickly joined (itself) upon the top of the neck of the mantis. The


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An "NACA Conference on High-Speed Aerodynamics" was held at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, California, to acquaint the military services and industrial contractors interested in aerospace projects with the results of recent research conducted by the NACA laboratories on the subject of space flight. The conference was attended by more than 500 representatives from the NACA, industry, the military services, and other appropriate government agencies. Some 46 technical papers were presented by NACA personnel, and included specific proposals for manned space-flight vehicle projects. One of these was presented by Maxime A. Faget. (See March 18, 1958, entry.) Other papers within the category of manned orbital satellites included: “Preliminary Studies of Manned Satellites, Wingless Configuration, Lifting Body” by Thomas J. Wong and others; "Preliminary Studies of Manned Satellites, Winged Configurations" by John V. Becker; "Preliminary Aerodynamic Data Pertinent to Manned Satellite Reentry Configurations” by Jim A. Penland and William O. Armstrong; and "Structural Design Considerations for Boost-Glide and Orbital Reentry Vehicles" by William A. Brooks and others.

At the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, a working committee studied various manned satellite development plans and concluded that a ballistic-entry vehicle launched with an existing intercontinental ballistic missile propulsion system could be utilized for the first manned satellite project.

Robert R. Gilruth, Clotaire Wood, and Hartley A. Soulé of NACA transmitted a document to the Air Research and Development Command, which listed the design concepts NACA believed should be followed to achieve manned orbital flights at the earliest possible date. These were: (1) design and develop a simple ballistic vehicle, (2) use existing intercontinental ballistic missile propulsion systems, and (3) use the heat sink method for reentry from orbital conditions.

President Eisenhower submitted to Congress a special message calling for the creation of a special civilian space agency, with NACA serving as a nucleus, to conduct federal aeronautic and space activities.


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8 water.'—'Did you not know that air, earth, and water, have long been known to be no elements at all, but compounds?'—'What do you mean, sir? Who ever heard of such a thing?'

2. The notion that difficulties are enigmas, to be overcome in a moment by a lucky thought. A nobleman of very high rank, now long dead, read an article by me on the quadrature, in an early number of the Penny Magazine. He had, I suppose, school recollections of geometry. He put pencil to paper, drew a circle, and constructed what seemed likely to answer, and, indeed, was—as he said—certain, if only this bit were equal to that; which of course it was not. He forwarded his diagram to the Secretary of the Diffusion Society, to be handed to the author of the article, in case the difficulty should happen to be therein overcome.

3. Discovery at all hazards, to get on in the world. Thirty years ago, an officer of rank, just come from foreign service, and trying for a decoration from the Crown, found that his claims were of doubtful amount, and was told by a friend that so and so, who had got the order, had the additional claim of scientific distinction. Now this officer, while abroad, had bethought himself one day, that there really could be no difficulty in finding the circumference of a circle: if a circle were rolled upon a straight line until the undermost point came undermost again, there would be the straight line equal to the circle. He came to me, saying that he did not feel equal to the statement of his claim in this respect, but that if some clever fellow would put the thing in a proper light, he thought his affair might be managed. I was clever enough to put the thing in a proper light to himself, to this extent at least, that, though perhaps they were wrong, the advisers of the Crown would never put the letters K.C.B. to such a circle as his.

4. The notion that mathematicians cannot find the circle for common purposes. A working man measured the altitude of a cylinder accurately, and—I think the process of Archimedes was one of his proceedings—found its bulk. He then calculated the ratio of the circumference to the diameter, and found it answered very well on other modes of trial. His result was about 3.14. He came to London, and somebody sent him to me. Like many others of his pursuit, he seemed to have turned the whole force of his mind upon one of his points, on which alone he would be open to refutation. He had read some of Kater's experiments, and had got the Act of 1825 on weights and measures. Say what I would, he had for a long time but one answer—'Sir! I go upon Captain Kater and the Act of Parliament.' But I fixed him at last. I happened to have on the table a proof-sheet of the Astronomical


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Maxime A. Faget and associates conceived the idea of using a contour couch to withstand the high g-loads attendant to acceleration and reentry forces of manned space flight. Fabrication of test-model contour couches was started in the Langley shops in May 1958, and the concept was proved feasible on July 30 (see entry) of that same year.

After serving as a liaison officer of NACA and as a participating member of an Advanced Research Projects Agency panel, Maxime A. Faget reported to Dr. Hugh Dryden on resulting studies and attending recommendations on the subject of manned space flight. He stated that the Advanced Research Projects Agency panel was quite aware that the responsibility for such a program might be placed with the soon-to-be-created civilian space agency, although they recommended program management be placed with the Air Force under executive control of NACA and the Advanced Research Projects Agency. The panel also recommended that the program start immediately even though the specific manager was, as yet, unassigned. Several of the proposals put forth by the panel on the proposed development were rather similar to the subsequent evolvement. The system suggested by the Advanced Research Projects Agency was to be based on the use of the Atlas launch vehicle with the Atlas-Sentry system serving as backup; retrorockets were to be used to initiate the return from orbit; the space- craft was to be a nonlifting, ballistic type, and the crew was to be selected from qualified volunteers in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

NACA personnel discussed the proposed space agency budget, including the manned satellite project, with Bureau of Budget officials.

Meetings were held with NACA, AVCO, and Lockheed representatives in attendance to consider materials for thermal protection of satellite reentry vehicles.

Preliminary specifications of the first manned satellite vehicle were drafted by Langley Aeronautical Laboratory personnel under the supervision of Maxime Faget and Charles W. Mathews. After a number of revisions and


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Abbott, Ira H.,

Ablation heat protection,, , ,

Abort test, 44, 53

Aborted mission, 14, 50

Adapters, spacecraft-booster, 41

Aden, 178, 195

Aerobee rocket, 3

Aerodynamic heating, 4, 5, 17, 19, 20, 36, 48

Aerodynamic stability and control, 4, 17

Aeromedical personnel, 30, 33

Aeromedical selection team, 33

Aeronutronics, 14, 39, 51, 62

Aerospace Writers' Association, 194

Agena (see also Hustler), 8

Aircraft:

B- 70 Valkyrie, 168

C- 130, 29, 73

T- 33, 54

X- 2,5

X- 15, 6, 9, 11, 15, 17, 21

X- 20 (see also Dyna Soar), 11, 108, 166

XS- 1 rocket plane, 2

X series research, 1, 5, 9

Airdrop progr.am, 28-30

"Airglow," 168

Air lock, spacecraft, 188

Albuquerque, N. Mex., 30, 40

Allen, H. Julian, 4

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics,

Second Manned Space FJ.ight Meeting, 188

American Rocket Society, 11-13

Ames Aeronautical Laboratory (see also Ames Research Center), 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 18, 19

Ames Research Center, Calif. (see also Ames Aeronautical Laboratory), 41, 42, 97, 147, 176

Amundsen, Roald, 162

Analog computing facility, 93, 133

Animal program, 18, 34, 35, 39, 50

Antimissile missile, 13, 15

Apollo (see Project Apollo, Apollo program)

Apollo guidance and navigation system, 178

Apollo program (see also Project Apollo), 141, 196

Apollo spacecraft, 171, 188

Armstrong, Neil, 63, 182

Armstrong, William 0., 19

Arnold Engineering Development Center, Tenn., 32,39,41,43,52,64,83,85,111

Artificial satellite, 10, 15

Astronautical Research and Development Agency, 11, 12

Astronauts, 70, 72, 94, 114, 153, 161, 183, 189

disorientation flights, 70

human factors, 29

initial orientation, 50

"mechanical," 148

medical ex.amination, 40, 42

NASA policy toward, 57

qualifications for selection, 35, 36

receive pressure suits, 82

selection, 20, 29, 30, 33, 35-37, 39, 40, 42, 50, 182

specialty assignments, 71, 182

training, 4, 30, 33, 48, 54, 56, 71, 86, 94, 96, 105, 109, 114, 121, 124, 131, 141, 145, 154, 161, 187

Atlantic Fleet, 42

Atlantic Missile Range, 3, 10, 42, 49, 50, 52, 57, 67, 88, 92,103,111,143,195

Operations Coordination Group, 92

Evaluation Summary and Management meeting, 111

Atlas flight control system, 164

Atlas-Hustler launch vehicle combination, 14

Atlas launch vehicles, 3, 7, 8-10, 13, 14, 20, 28, 32, 33, 42, 43, 50, 65, 80, 86, 88, 103; 111-114, 120, 125, 126, 143, 144, 148-150 153, 154, 158, 160, 163

Atlas launch vehicle control system, 182

Atlas C, 32

Atlas D, 32

Atlas-Sentry system, 20

Atomic Energy Commission, 11, 258

Attitude control system, spacecraft, 18, 22, 44, 123, 137,192

automatic stabilization and control, 70, 86, 93, 158, 192

fiy-by-wire, 158

manual control. 142, 158, 192

manual mechanical control, 158

reaction control, 39, 86, 119, 142, 158, 167, 169, 174, 180, 183, 185

Augerson, William, 33

Aurora 7, 164

Australia, tracking site, 93, 148

Auxiliary flotation collar (see Inflatable flotation collar)

AVCO, 15, 20, 34

Ballistic missile boosters, 9

Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, 149


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additions, these specifications were used for the Project Mercury spacecraft contract with McDonnell Aircraft Corporation. A working group of representatives from the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory and the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory was formed for the purpose of outlining a manned satellite program.

NACA representatives were assigned to the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Manned Satellite Committee.

General Electric Company personnel presented a briefing at NACA headquarters on studies related to manned space flight. The company held contracts let by the Wright Air Development Center for study and mock-up of a manned spacecraft. NACA made no official comment.

Cooke Electric Company submitted a proposal to the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation as a part of a preliminary study and design effort by McDonnell for a manned satellite. McDonnell, prior to being awarded the Mercury prime development contract in February 1959, spent 11 months under a company research budget working on a manned orbital spacecraft concept.

Congress passed the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958.

In a memorandum to Dr. James R. Killian, Jr., Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, Director of NACA, pointed out that NASA would inherit from NACA a rich technical background, competence, and leadership in driving toward the objective of a manned satellite program. For years NACA groups had been involved in research on such items as stabilization of ultra-high speed vehicles, provision of suitable controls, high temperature structural designs, and all the problems of reentry. In fact, a part of this work had been directed specifically toward the problem of designing a manned satellite. Also, the X-15 program had provided much experience in human factors applicable to the orbital flight of man. Therefore, Dr. Dryden concluded, in consonance with the intent of the Space Act of 1958, the assignment of the program to the NASA would be consistent.


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22 The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 was signed into a law by President Eisenhower.

By using the development model of the Mercury contour couch designed by Maxime A. Faget and associates, Carter C. Collins withstood a 20g load on the centrifuge at Johnsville, Pennsylvania. This test proved that the reentry accelerations of manned space flight could be withstood.

Republic Aviation representatives briefed NACA Headquarters personnel on the man-in-space studies in which the company had been engaged since the first of the year. They envisioned a four-stage solid launch-vehicle system and a lifting reentry vehicle, which was termed a sled. The vehicle was to be of triangular shape with a 75° leading-edge sweep. Aerodynamic and reaction controls would be available to the pilot. For the launch vehicle, Republic proposed a Minuteman first stage, a Polaris first stage, a Minuteman upper stage, and a Jumbo rocket fourth stage. Other details relative to reentry and recovery were included in the briefing.

The initial concept of the use of a tractor rocket for an escape device was suggested by Maxime A. Faget—an idea which developed into the Mercury escape rocket. (see fig. 1.)

Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, NACA Director, presented a program on the technology of manned space flight vehicles to the Select Committees of Congress on Astronautics and Space Exploration.

A memorandum from the Secretary of the Army to the Secretary of Defense recommended Project Adam for a manned space flight program. This plan proposed a ballistic suborbital flight using existing Redstone hardware as a national political-psychological demonstration. This memo proposed that funds in the amount of $9 million and $2.5 million for fiscal years 1959 and 1960, respectively, be approved for program execution.


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was soon to pass into a winter day as I looked out of the window to see what kind of a world it was that had been, since I began to read, shutting me off effectually from everything but my book.

The words were still fresh in my brain.

But, outside, the trees and barns and shed were quiet and dim, and as much submerged and hidden from the air in which I had been living as the green streets of motionless lily and weed at the bottom of some lonely pool where carp and tench go slowly. The road went straight away from the window to the invisible beyond; hard and dry, it was trying to shine, as if it recalled the sunlight. Half way along, at one side, under a broad oak, there was a formless but pregnant shadow. The farm buildings that lay about the road were huddled, dark, colourless and indistinguishable because of their shadows; they might have been heaped up by a great plough, of which the road was the shining furrow; they were not so much the vague wreckage of what I had

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President Eisenhower assigned the responsibility for the development and execution of a manned space flight program to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. However, NASA did not become operational until October 1, 1958.

At an Army Advanced Research Projects Agency conference, the Army was advised there was little chance for approval of Project Adam.

A joint National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Advanced Research Projects Agency Manned Satellite Panel was formed. This panel, with the aid of technical studies prepared by the Langley and Lewis Research Centers and assistance from the military services, drafted specific plans for a program of research leading to manned space flight.

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 known yesterday, as a chaos out of which perhaps something was to be born. Yet the outside world was vaster than it had seemed when I could see three ranges of hills and guess at the sea beyond; and strange it was when the words—

came back to me. How frail and perilous and small was the poet's shielded world! The outside world threatened it as the smooth escarpment of tall, toppling water threatens the little piping sea-bird. And yet this poet's world was for the time being my life. Beyond his words there were, perhaps, the gay, the dear, the beautiful persons whom I knew; Nobby, the tinker, and many more; but probably they slept; they were vain if they were not fictitious; if they could be supposed to live, my only proof of it was that somehow they were connected with a very distant light that refused to go out among the westward copses. They were hardly more credible than the words of a stale preacher talking of charity, or an artful poet writing of love.

So I clung to Keats, the reality, until the road grew almost white, and under that broad oak some rational, nay, beautiful outlines begin to appear, which the shadow enveloped like a cocoon. The outlines were hardly built until they were seen to be a waggon, and its birth out of the shadow was a mighty thing that shared the idiom of stately trees and the motions of great waters and of cliffs that look on sunset and a noble sea. Dimly, uncertainly,

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22 Study was started on the tracking and ground instrumentation networks for the manned satellite project.

A series of meetings were held in Washington, with Robert R. Gilruth serving as chairman to draft a manned satellite program and provide a basic plan for meeting the objectives of this program. Others attending included 8. B. Batdorf, A. J. Eggers, Maxime A. Faget, George Low, Warren North, Walter C. Williams, and Robert C. Youngquist.

NASA was activated in accordance with the terms of Public Law 85-568, and the nonmilitary space projects which had been conducted by the Advanced Research Projects Agency were transferred to the jurisdiction of the NASA. Concurrently, NACA, after a 43-year tenure, was inactivated, and its facilities and personnel became a part of NASA.

The Navy space proposal to the Advanced Research Projects Agency, during the tenure of that organization’s interim surveillance over national space projects, was known as Project Mer. This plan involved sending a man into orbit in a collapsible pneumatic glider. The glider and its occupant would be launched in the nose of a giant launch vehicle. After the glider had been placed in orbit, it would be inflated, and then flown down to a water landing.


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 does not care—whether his body had any burial at all, but can say that he left behind him the reputation among the wise of having lived a life worthy of a man,—loftier monument, base Carian slave, than yours, and built on a far safer foundation.

In another dialogue Diogenes talks in the same strain to Alexander, and recommends the waters of Lethe as the only remedy for the sad regrets which those must feel, who have exchanged the glories of earth for the cold and dreary equality which reigns among the dead below—a passionless and objectless existence, in which none but the bitterest Cynic, who rejoices in the discomfiture of all earthly ambitions, can take any pleasure. So also Achilles, in a dialogue with the young Antilochus—a premature visitor to these gloomy regions—repeats the melancholy wish which Homer has put into his mouth in the Odyssey—

Such is the tone of these Dialogues throughout,—a grim despair disclosing itself through their cynical levity. Whatever the "Elysian Fields" of the poets might be, the satirist gives us no glimpse of them. All whom the new visitors meet are in tears,—except the infants. In one scene, Diogenes remarks a poor decrepit old man weeping bitterly. To him, one


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 would think, the change could have been not so very sad. Was he a king on earth? No. Or a man of rank and wealth? "No," is the reply; "I was in my ninetieth year, and miserably poor; I had to earn my bread by fishing. I had no children to succour me, and I was lame and blind." "What!" says the philosopher, "in such a case, could you really wish to have life prolonged?" "Ay," replies the old fisherman, echoing the thought of the great Achilles—"Ay, life is sweet, and death terrible."

Although this is not classed amongst the "Dialogues of the Dead," there seems no reason why it should not find a place among them. Charon and his ghostly freight are a favourite subject for Lucian's satire, and he has here introduced them again in a dramatic scene of considerably more length than any of the preceding. The sparkling humour of the introduction gives additional force to the serious moral of the close.

Charon. Well, Clotho, here's the boat all a-taut, and everything ready for crossing; we've pumped out the water, and stepped the mast, and hoisted the sail—the oars are in their row-locks, and, so far as I am concerned, nothing hinders us from weighing anchor and setting off. And that Mercury is keeping me waiting—he ought to have been here long ago. The boat lies here empty still, you see, when we might have made three trips already to-day; and now it's almost evening, and


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 large portion of their days in this ecstatic stupor, which explains their high composure and endurance. A pity to go to the expense of laudanum, when here is a better paradise for nothing!

This frame of mind was the great exploit of our voyage, take it all in all. It was the farthest piece of travel accomplished. Indeed, it lies so far from beaten paths of language, that I despair of getting the reader into sympathy with the smiling, complacent idiocy of my condition; when ideas came and went like motes in a sunbeam; when trees and church spires along the bank surged up, from time to time into my notice, like solid objects through a rolling cloudland; when the rhythmical swish of boat and paddle in the water became a cradle-song to lull my thoughts asleep; when a piece of mud on the deck was sometimes an intolerable eyesore, and sometimes quite a companion


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 for me, and the object of pleased consideration;—and all the time, with the river running and the shores changing upon either hand, I kept counting my strokes and forgetting the hundreds, the happiest animal in France.


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made our first stage below Compiègne to Pont Sainte Maxence. I was abroad a little after six the next morning, The air was biting and smelt of frost. In an open place, a score of women wrangled together over the day's market; and the noise of their negotiation sounded thin and querulous like that of sparrows on a winter's morning. The rare passengers blew into their hands, and shuffled in their wooden shoes to set the blood agog. The streets were full of icy shadow, although the chimneys were smoking overhead in golden sunshine. If you wake early enough at this season of the year, you may get up in December to break your fast in June.


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 I found my way to the church; for there is always something to see about a church, whether living worshippers or dead men's tombs; you find there the deadliest earnest, and the hollowest deceit; and even where it is not a piece of history, it will be certain to leak out some contemporary gossip. It was scarcely so cold in the church as it was without, but it looked colder. The white nave was positively arctic to the eye; and the tawdriness of a continental altar looked more forlorn than usual in the solitude and the bleak air. Two priests sat in the chancel, reading and waiting penitents; and out in the nave, one very old woman was engaged in her devotions. It was a wonder how she was able to pass her beads when healthy young people were breathing in their palms and slapping their chest; but though this concerned me, I was yet more dispirited by the nature of her exercises. She went from


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 chair to chair, from altar to altar, circumnavigating the church. To each shrine, she dedicated an equal number of beads and an equal length of time. Like a prudent capitalist with a somewhat cynical view of the commercial prospect, she desired to place her supplications in a great variety of heavenly securities. She would risk nothing on the credit of any single intercessor. Out of the whole company of saints and angels, not one but was to suppose himself her champion elect against the Great Assizes! I could only think of it as a dull, transparent jugglery, based upon unconscious unbelief.

She was as dead an old woman as ever I saw; no more than bone and parchment, curiously put together. Her eyes, with which she interrogated mine, were vacant of sense. It depends on what you call seeing, whether you might not call her blind. Perhaps she had known love: perhaps borne children, suckled


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 them and given them pet names. But now that was all gone by, and had left her neither happier nor wiser; and the best she could do with her mornings was to come up here into the cold church and juggle for a slice of heaven. It was not without a gulp that I escaped into the streets and the keen morning air. Morning? why, how tired of it she would be before night! and if she did not sleep, how then? It is fortunate that not many of us are brought up publicly to justify our lives at the bar of three score years and ten; fortunate that such a number are knocked opportunely on the head in what they call the flower of their years, and go away to suffer for their follies in private somewhere else. Otherwise, between sick children and discontented old folk, we might be put out of all conceit of life.

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 An Inland Voyage. throat sorely. But I was soon in the seventh heaven of stupidity; and knew nothing but that somebody was paddling a canoe, while I was counting his strokes and forgetting the hundreds. I used sometimes to be afraid I should remember the hundreds; which would have made a toil of a pleasure; but the terror was chimerical, they went out of my mind by enchantment, and I knew no more than the man in the moon about my only occupation.

At Creil, where we stopped to lunch, we left the canoes in another floating lavatory, which, as it was high noon, was packed with washerwomen, red-handed and loud-voiced; and they and their broad jokes are about all I remember of the place. I could look up my history books, if you were very anxious, and tell you a date or two; for it figured rather largely in the English wars. But I prefer to mention a girls' boarding-school, which had an interest for


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 us because it was a girls' boarding-school, and because we imagined we had rather an interest for it. At least—there were the girls about the garden; and here were we on the river; and there was more than one handkerchief waved as we went by. It caused quite a stir in my heart; and yet how we should have wearied and despised each other, these girls and I, if we had been introduced at a croquet party! But this is a fashion I love: to kiss the hand or wave a handkerchief to people I shall never see again, to play with possibility, and knock in a peg for fancy to hang upon. It gives the traveller a jog, reminds him that he is not a traveller everywhere, and that his journey is no more than a siesta by the way on the real march of life.

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 of the Dolorous Way. But there was one oddity, in the way of an ex voto, which pleased me hugely: a faithful model of a canal boat, swung from the vault, with a written aspiration that God should conduct the Saint Nicolas of Creil to a good haven. The thing was neatly executed, and would have made the delight of a party of boys on the waterside. But what tickled me was the gravity of the peril to be conjured. You might hang up the model of a sea-going ship, and welcome: one that is to plough a furrow round the world, and visit the tropic or the frosty poles, runs dangers that are well worth a candle and a mass. But the Saint Nicolas of Creil, which was to be tugged for some ten years by patient draught horses, in a weedy canal, with the poplars chattering overhead, and the skipper whistling at the tiller; which was to do all its errands in green, inland places, and never got out of sight of a village


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 belfry in all its cruising; why, you would have thought if anything could be done without the intervention of Providence, it would be that! But perhaps the skipper was a humourist or perhaps a prophet, reminding people of the seriousness of life by this preposterous token.

At Creil, as at Noyon, Saint Joseph seemed a favourite saint on the score of punctuality. Day and hour can be specified; and grateful people do not fail to specify them on a votive tablet, when prayers have been punctually and neatly answered. Whenever time is a consideration, Saint Joseph is the proper intermediary. I took a sort of pleasure in observing the vogue he had in France, for the good man plays a very small part in my religion at home. Yet I could not help fearing that, where the Saint is so much commended for exactitude, he will be expected to be very grateful for his tablet.


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Studies and plans of the manned satellite project were presented to Advanced Research Projects Agency on October 3 and to Dr. T. Keith Glennan, NASA Administrator, on October 7. On October 7, 1958; Dr. Glennan approved the project by saying, in effect, "Let’s get on with it." (See fig. 2)


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 This is foolishness to us Protestants; and not of great importance anyway. Whether people's gratitude for the good gifts that come to them, be wisely conceived or dutifully expressed, is a secondary matter, after all, so long as they feel gratitude. The true ignorance is when a man does not know that he has received a good gift, or begins to imagine that he has got it for himself. The self-made man is the funniest windbag after all! There is a marked difference between decreeing light in chaos, and lighting the gas in a metropolitan back-parlour with a box of patent matches; and do what we will, there is always something made to our hand, if it were only our fingers.

But there was something worse than foolishness placarded in Creil Church. The Association of the Living Rosary (of which I had never previously heard) is responsible for that. This association was founded, according to the printed


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 powerfully, never quite expressing itself in any known language—as was natural in what seemed to belong to an early brood of the giant earth—the waggon emerged, with ponderous wheels and slender, curving timbers and trailing shafts. The chariot of Dis coming up to Persephone looked thus majestic. Yet the waggon suggested nothing definite, at least no history. It had no such articulate power. But antiquity played about it as, an hour before, it had played about my shelves and books. It was simply the richer for its long life, like a violin or a wise man; and, like them, it neither carried its legend on its exterior nor encouraged anything more than joyful surmise.

It was the one clearly visible piece of man's work among all those potent shadows and uncertain forms of roof and wall; it was crowned by the last stars. Becoming clearer as morning came, it was an important part of the recreation of the world, and involved in it, just as a brazen image may seem to be part of the good fortune or calamity which follows prayer to it. It filled the white road with emotion. It was more intelligible than some men are when they say "I worship" or "I love." Keats left my mind. From my memory, I added melodies of voice and harp and reed, and noise of seas and winds in forests and houses by night, and organ music, with its many demons blithe and terrible, exploring the skiey roof of some cathedral and knocking at the clerestory to get out, floating, sad or happy, about the aisles, and settling at last to make the old purples and greens and blues in the glass more solemn than before; and yet I could not reproduce the melody or anything like it, with which the old waggon pervaded the farm-

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 yard. Slowly the light came, and the world was filled with it as imperceptibly as the brain with a great thought. It fell upon the spokes of the waggon wheel, and they seemed to move. Then all was over.

The clear face of things which it is so hard to enjoy was back again. The determined starlings flew swift and straight overhead. The clouds about the risen sun went stately upon their errands through the sky.

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194 doubted; but we should compare their numbers not merely with those that now exist upon the earth, but with a far larger amount. We have no reason for believing that the number of species on the earth at any former period was much less than at present; at all events the aquatic portion, with which geologists have most acquaintance, was probably often as great or greater. Now we know that there have been many complete changes of species; new sets of organisms have many times been introduced in place of old ones which have become extinct, so that the total amount which have existed on the earth from the earliest geological period must have borne about the same proportion to those now living, as the whole human race who have lived and died upon the earth, to the population at the present time. Again, at each epoch, the whole earth was no doubt, as now, more or less the theatre of life, and as the successive generations of each species died, their exuviæ and preservable parts would be deposited over every portion of the then existing seas and oceans, which we have reason for supposing to have been more, rather than less, extensive than at present. In order then to understand our possible knowledge of the early world and its inhabitants, we must compare, not the area of the whole field of our geological researches with the earth’s surface, but the area of the examined portion of each formation separately with the whole earth. For example, during the Silurian period all the earth was Silurian, and animals were living and dying, and depositing their remains more or less over the whole area of the globe, and they were probably (the species at least) nearly as varied in different latitudes and longitudes as at present. What proportion do the Silurian districts bear to the whole surface of the globe, land and sea (for far more extensive Silurian districts probably exist beneath the ocean than above it), and what portion of the known Silurian districts has been actually examined for fossils? Would the area of rock actually laid open to the eye be the thousandth or the ten-thousandth part of the earth’s surface? Ask the same question with regard to the Oolite or the Chalk, or even to particular beds of these when they differ considerably in their fossils, and you may then get some notion of how small a portion of the whole we know.

But yet more important is the probability, may, almost the certainty, that whole formations containing the records of vast geological periods are: entirely buried beneath the ocean, and for ever beyond our reach. Most of the gaps in the geological series may thus be filled up, and vast numbers of unknown and unimaginable animals, which might help to elucidate the affinities of the numerous isolated groups which are a perpetual puzzle to


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Rh Memoirs, in which were a large number of observed places of the planets compared with prediction, and asked him whether it could be possible that persons who did not know the circle better than he had found it could make the calculations, of which I gave him a notion, so accurately? He was perfectly astonished, and took the titles of some books which he said he would read.

5. Application for the reward from abroad. Many years ago, about twenty-eight, I think, a Jesuit came from South America, with a quadrature, and a cutting from a newspaper announcing that a reward was ready for the discovery in England. On this evidence he came over. After satisfying him that nothing had ever been offered here, I discussed his quadrature, which was of no use. I succeeded better when I told him of Richard White, also a Jesuit, and author of a quadrature published before 1648, under the name of Chrysæspis, of which I can give no account, having never seen it. This White (Albius) is the only quadrator who was ever convinced of his error. My Jesuit was struck by the instance, and promised to read more geometry—he was no Clavius—before he published his book. He relapsed, however, for I saw his book advertised in a few days. I may say, as sufficient proof of my being no collector, that I had not the curiosity to buy his book; and my friend the Jesuit did not send me a copy, which he ought to have done, after the hour I had given him.

6. Application for the reward at home. An agricultural labourer squared the circle, and brought the proceeds to London. He left his papers with me, one of which was the copy of a letter to the Lord Chancellor, desiring his Lordship to hand over forthwith 100,000l., the amount of the alleged offer of reward. He did not go quite so far as M. de Vausenville, who, I think in 1778, brought an action against the Academy of Sciences to recover a reward to which he held himself entitled. I returned the papers, with a note, stating that he had not the knowledge requisite to see in what the problem consisted. I got for answer a letter in which I was told that a person who could not see that he had done the thing should 'change his business, and appropriate his time and attention to a Sunday-school, to learn what he could, and keep the litle children from durting their close.' I also received a letter from a friend of the quadrator, informing me that I knew his friend had succeeded, and had been heard to say so. These letters were printed—without the names of the writers—for the amusement of the readers of Notes and Queries, First Series, xii. 57, and they will appear again in the sequel.


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Upon the fourth day morning came two and thirty men

Unto the king’s court riding; and word was carried then

To Gunther, the most mighty, that he was call’d to war.

The lie cost many a woman much grief and sorrow sore.

When leave to them was granted, before the king they went,

And said that they were under King Lud’ger’s government,—

Who vanquish’d was aforetime by doughty Siegfried’s hand,

And brought by him a captive unto King Gunther’s land.

Then greeted he the heralds, and bade them seated be.

But one among them pray’d him: “Sire, let us stand, till we

Our message have deliver’d and errand duly done:

Know then that thou art hated by many a mother’s son!

“King Ludegast and Lud’ger, do challenge you to war,

Of whom you were aforetime the bloody conqueror:

They’re coming with their armies, to ride thy country through.”

At this the king feign’d anger, as if to him ’twere new.

They took these counterfeiters to hostel presently.

How then could Siegfried ware be of any treachery,—

Could he or any other suspect they played a part?

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10 [There are many who have such a deep respect for any attempt at thought that they are shocked at ridicule even of those who have made themselves conspicuous by pretending to lead the world in matters which they have not studied. Among my anonymes is a gentleman who is angry at my treatment of the 'poor but thoughtful' man who is described in my introduction as recommending me to go to a Sunday-school because I informed him that he did not know in what the difficulty of quadrature consisted. My impugner quite forgets that this man's 'thoughtfulness' chiefly consisted in his demanding a hundred thousand pounds from the Lord Chancellor for his discovery; and I may add, that his greatest stretch of invention was finding out that "the clergy" were the means of his modest request being unnoticed. I mention this letter because it affords occasion to note a very common error, namely, that men unread in their subjects have, by natural wisdom, been great benefactors of mankind. My critic says, 'Shakspeare, whom the Pro$r$ (sic) may admit to be a wisish man, though an object of contempt as to learning….' Shakspeare an object of contempt as to learning! Though not myself a thoroughgoing Shakespearean—and adopting the first half of the opinion given by George III, 'What! is there not sad stuff? only one must not say so'—I am strongly of opinion that he throws out the masonic signs of learning in almost every scene, to all who know what they are. And this over and above every kind of direct evidence. First, foremost, and enough, the evidence of Ben Jonson that he had 'little Latin and less Greek'; then Shakespeare had as much Greek as Jonson would call some, even when he was depreciating. To have any Greek at all was in those days exceptional. In Shakespeare's youth St. Paul's and Merchant Taylor's schools were to have masters learned in good and clean Latin literature, and also in Greek if such may be gotten. When Jonson spoke as above, he intended to put Shakespeare low among the learned, but not out of their pale; and he spoke as a rival dramatist, who was proud of his own learned sock; and it may be a subject of inquiry how much Latin he would call little. If Shakespeare's learning on certain points be very much less visible than Jonson's, it is partly because Shakespeare's writings hold it in chemical combination, Jonson's in mechanical aggregation.]

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 that, although a man may be able to do good deeds without grace, he loses the possibility of doing good deeds the moment he accepts the teaching of the church, and can only wish for it, by invoking the aid of the hierarchy. But even the desire for grace, as has just been said, is given only by the Holy Ghost, that is, again by grace. The Theology is evidently moving in a magic circle.

“189. If without divine grace man cannot become a believer, or believe in Christ, or do deeds that are worthy of a life according to Christ, it follows naturally that without the cooperation of divine grace man cannot abide in the Christian faith and godliness to the end of his life.”

Here it says that the cooperation of this external grace is not exhausted by baptism and faith, but that for the salvation the constant aid of the hierarchy is needed. All that would seem to be clear, but now follows Art. 190, which refutes the heretics. In this and the following articles the whole disconnection of the teaching becomes manifest.

The hierarchy needs a teaching which would reduce the whole teaching about life to a teaching about the sacraments, but that cannot be expressed outright: the immorality of such a teaching is too obvious. Besides, there have been many controversies in regard to this question. Some reflected consistently: if grace saves, the free efforts of man are useless; others said: if the free efforts of man are needed, the whole thing lies in them, and grace is imparted to them; but our Theology refutes both, and itself becomes entangled and persists in that tangle.

“Contrary to the errors of the Calvinists and Jansenists, which are that God gives his grace only to a few men, whom he has unconditionally preordained to righteousness and eternal bliss, and therefore gives an invincible grace, the Orthodox Church teaches: (a) that divine grace extends over all men, and not only on the preordained to


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Rh into the poor man's head by reading, in some singular mixture with what it found there. Some modifications of vibration gave heat, electricity, &c. I listened until my informant ceased to vibrate—which is always the shortest way—and then said, 'Our knowledge of elastic fluids is imperfect.' 'Sir!' said he, "I see you perceive the truth of what I have said, and I will reward your attention by telling you what I seldom disclose, never, except to those who can receive my theory—the little molecule whose vibrations have given rise to our solar system is the Logos of St. John's Gospel!' He went away to Dr. Lardner, who would not go into the solar system at all—the first molecule settled the question. So hard upon poor discoverers are men of science who are not antiquaries in their subject! On leaving, he said, 'Sir, Mr. De Morgan received me in a very different way! he heard me attentively, and I left him perfectly satisfied of the truth of my system.' I have had much reason to think that many discoverers, of all classes, believe they have convinced every one who is not peremptory to the verge of incivility.

My list is given in chronological order. My readers will understand that my general expressions, where slighting or contemptuous, refer to the ignorant, who teach before they have learned. In every instance, those of whom I am able to speak with respect, whether as right or wrong, have sought knowledge in the subject they were to handle before they completed their speculations. I shall further illustrate this at the conclusion of my list.

Before I begin the list, I give prominence to the following letter, addressed by me to the Correspondent of October 28, 1865. Some of my paradoxers attribute to me articles in this or that journal; and others may think—I know some do think—they know me as the writer of reviews of some of the very books noticed here. The following remarks will explain the way in which they may be right, and in which they may be wrong.

,—I have reason to think that many persons have a very inaccurate notion of the Editorial System. What I call by this name has grown up in the last centenary—a word I may use to signify the hundred years now ending, and to avoid the ambiguity of century. It cannot conveniently be explained by editors themselves, and edited journals generally do not like to say much about it. In your paper perhaps, in which editorial duties differ somewhat from those of ordinary journals, the common system may be freely spoken of.


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 righteousness and eternal bliss; (b) that the preordainment of some by God to eternal bliss and of others to eternal damnation is not unconditional, but is based on the foreknowledge whether they will take advantage of the grace, or not; (e) that divine grace does not embarrass man’s freedom, does not act invincibly upon it, and (d) that, on the contrary, man takes an active part in what divine grace works in him and through him (Epistle of the Eastern Patriarchs, Section 3).” (pp. 277 and 278.)

The preceding article defines man’s salvation in such a way that it obviously no longer results from his efforts, but completely depends on the communication of grace from without. Consequently there had naturally to appear the reflection: if salvation depends not on man, but on God, and God is omniscient, some people are predetermined to salvation, and others to perdition. But the Theology does not agree with the Calvinists.

191. Divine grace extends over all men, and not only over those who are preordained to righteousness and eternal bliss. Proofs are adduced to refute the Calvinists. And here it turns out involuntarily that in refuting the Calvinists the Theology refutes all the decrees of the councils, which determined that man cannot save himself by his own efforts.

“St. John Chrysostom: ‘If Christ lighteth every man that cometh into the world (John i. 9), how then do men remain without illumination? He actually illuminates everybody. But if some, voluntarily closing the eyes of their intellect, do not wish to receive the beams of this light, their abiding in darkness does not depend on the nature of the light, but on the ungodliness of those who by their will deprive themselves of that gift. For the grace has poured forth on all, and those who do not wish to make use of such a gift must, in justice, blame themselves for their blindness.’ St. Ambrose: ‘He rose, like a mysterious sun, for everybody; if some one does not


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 advertisement, by a brief of Pope Gregory Sixteenth, on the 17th of January, 1832: according to a coloured bas relief, it seems to have been founded, sometime or other, by the Virgin giving one rosary to Saint Dominic, and the Infant Saviour giving another to Saint Catherine of Sienna. Pope Gregory is not so imposing, but he is nearer hand. I could not distinctly make out whether the association was entirely devotional, or had an eye to good works; at least it is highly organized: the names of fourteen matrons and misses were filled in for each week of the month as associates, with one other, generally a married woman, at the top for Zélatrice: the choragus of the band. Indulgences, plenary and partial, follow on the performance of the duties of the association. "The partial indulgences are attached to the recitation of the rosary." On "the recitation of the required dizaine," a partial indulgence promptly follows.


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 When people serve the kingdom of Heaven with a pass-book in their hands, I should always be afraid lest they should carry the same commercial spirit into their dealings with their fellow-men, which would make a sad and sordid business of this life.

There is one more article, however, of happier import. "All these indulgences," it appeared, "are applicable to souls in purgatory." For God's sake, ye ladies of Creil, apply them all to the souls in purgatory without delay! Burns would take no hire for his last songs, preferring to serve his country out of unmixed love. Suppose you were to imitate the exciseman, mesdames, and even if the souls in purgatory were not greatly bettered, some souls in Creil upon the Oise would find themselves none the worse either here or hereafter.

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 a fit state to understand these signs, and do them what justice they deserve; and I cannot help answering that he is not. They cannot look so merely ugly and mean to the faithful as they do to me. I see that as clearly as a proposition in Euclid. For these believers are neither weak nor wicked. They can put up their tablet commending Saint Joseph for his despatch, as if he were still a village carpenter; they can "recite the required dizaine," and metaphorically pocket the indulgence, as if they had done a job for heaven; and then they can go out and look down unabashed upon this wonderful river flowing by, and up without confusion at the pin-point stars, which are themselves great worlds full of flowing rivers greater than the Oise. I see it as plainly, I say, as a proposition in Euclid, that my Protestant mind has missed the point, and that there goes with these de-


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 formities some higher and more religious spirit than I dream.

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 I was already going to relate the strange events which I had witnessed at the Haunted Castle, when I suddenly was checked by the apprehension of drawing upon me the laugh of the company, or that some one or other would offer to encounter with me the nightly sportsmen, without being equal to that hazardous undertaking.

The Austrian spoke with uncommon warmth, his eyes sparkled, and the wrinkles on his brow were contracting closer and closer, and when the company persisted in contradicting his opinion, he offered to enforce his arguments by undeniable facts, which he himself had experienced, requesting to be heard in profound silence, which could not but be granted to a man like him. We expected to hear something very uncommon, and for some time gazed at him in dumb expectation, 'till he at length began as follows:

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 jected, then I must tell you, gentlemen, that I do not only mean that it is merely possible that departed souls, or supernatural beings of another class, can appear when and wherever they please; but I also promise to convince you by my own experience, that there are people who can affect apparitions of that kind, at certain times and under certain conditions."

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28 Personnel from the Langley Research Center visited the Army Ballistic Missile Agency to open negotiations for procuring Redstone and Jupiter launch vehicles for the manned satellite projects.

Personnel from the Space Task Group involved in the study of reentry methods visited the Air Force Wright Air Development Center, Dayton, Ohio, for the purpose of preparing test specimens. Along with individuals from the center and the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division, the group then met at the Chicago Midway Laboratories, Chicago, Illinois, to investigate various ablation methods of reentry. Concurrently, these same methods were being investigated at high-temperature test facilities at Langley.

In behalf of the manned satellite project, an air drop program for full-scale parachute and landing system development was started at Langley.

The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Supply and Logistics invited the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to submit nominations for material procurement urgency (commonly known as the DX priority rating).

Langley Research Center personnel visited the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division, Inglewood, California, to open negotiations for procuring Atlas launch vehicles for the manned satellite project.

A bidders’ briefing for the Little Joe launch vehicle was held. As earlier mentioned, this launch vehicle was to be used in the development phase of the manned satellite project. The Little Joe launch vehicle was 48 feet in height, weighed (at maximum) 41,830 pounds, was 6.666 feet in diameter, consisted of four Pollux and four Recruit clustered, solid-fuel rockets, could develop a thrust of 250,000 pounds, and could lift a maximum payload of 3,942 pounds. (See January 16, 1958, entry.)

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For decades, infrastructure in Iowa has suffered from a systemic lack of investment. The need for action is clear:

Iowa's infrastructure received a grade on its Infrastructure Report Card. The American Jobs Plan will make a historic investment in our nation's infrastructure.

 * ROADS AND BRIDGES: In Iowa there are 4,571 bridges and over 403 miles of highway in poor condition. Since 2011, commute times have increased by 6.6% in Iowa and on average, each driver pays $336 per year in costs due to driving on roads in need of repair. The American Jobs Plan will devote more than $600 billion to transform our nations' transportation infrastructure and make it more resilient, including $115 billion repairing roads and bridges.
 * PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: Iowans who take public transportation spend an extra 30.4% of their time commuting and non-White households are 3.9 times more likely to commute via public transportation. 38% of trains and other transit vehicles in the state are past useful life. The American Jobs Plan will modernize public transit with an $85 billion investment.
 * RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE: From 2010 to 2020, Iowa has experienced 32 extreme weather events, costing the state up to $50 billion in damages. The President is calling for $50 billion to improve the resiliency of our infrastructure and support communities' recovery from disaster.
 * DRINKING WATER: Over the next 20 years, Iowa's drinking water infrastructure will require $7.9 billion in additional funding. The American Jobs Plan includes a $111 billion investment to ensure clean, safe drinking water is a right in all communities.
 * HOUSING: In part due to a lack of available and affordable housing, 146,000 renters in Iowa are rent burdened, meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on rent. The President proposes investing over $200 billion to increase housing supply and address the affordable housing crisis.
 * BROADBAND: 13.4% of Iowans live in areas where, by one definition, there is no broadband infrastructure that provides minimally acceptable speeds. And 61% of Iowans live in areas where there is only one such provider. Even where infrastructure is available, broadband may be too expensive to be within reach. 16% of Iowa households do not have an internet subscription. The American Jobs Plan would invest $100 billion to bring universal, reliable, high-speed, and affordable coverage to every family in America.
 * CAREGIVING: Across the country, hundreds of thousands of older adults and people with disabilities are in need of home and community-based services. The President's plan will invest $400 billion to help more people access care and improve the quality of caregiving jobs.
 * CHILD CARE: In Iowa, there is an estimated $499 million gap in what schools need to do maintenance and make improvements and 23% of residents live in a childcare desert. The American Jobs Plan will modernize our nation's schools and early learning facilities and build new ones in neighborhoods across Iowa and the country.


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 *MANUFACTURING: Manufacturers account for more than 18.7% of total output in Iowa, employing 228,000 workers, or 14.3% of the state's workforce. The American Job's Plan will invest $300 billion to retool and revitalize American manufacturers.
 * HOME ENERGY: In Iowa, an average low-income family spends 6-8% of their income on home energy costs forcing tough choices between paying energy bills and buying food, medicine or other essentials. The American Jobs Plan will upgrade low-income homes to make them more energy efficient through a historic investment in the Weatherization Assistance Program, a new Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator to finance building improvements, and expanded tax credits to support home energy upgrades.
 * CLEAN ENERGY JOBS: As of 2019, there were 32,057 Iowans working in clean energy, and the American Jobs Plan invests in creating more good paying union jobs advancing clean energy production by extending and expanding tax credits for clean energy generation, carbon capture and sequestration and clean energy manufacturing.
 * VETERANS HEALTH: Iowa is home to over 206,430 veterans, 7.3% of whom are women and 52.9% of whom are over the age of 65. The President is calling for $18 billion to improve the infrastructure of VA health care facilities to ensure the delivery of world-class, state of the art care to veterans enrolled in the VA health care system. This includes improvements to ensure appropriate care for women and older veterans.


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A special Committee on Life Sciences was established at Langley to determine qualifications and attributes required of personnel to be selected for America’s first manned space flight and to give advice on other human aspects of the manned satellite program.

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For decades, infrastructure in Kansas has suffered from a systemic lack of investment. The need for action is clear:

Kansas's infrastructure received a grade on its Infrastructure Report Card. The American Jobs Plan will make a historic investment in our nation's infrastructure.

 * ROADS AND BRIDGES: In Kansas there are 1,321 bridges and over 1,995 miles of highway in poor condition. Since 2011, commute times have increased by 6.6% in Kansas and on average, each driver pays $509 per year in costs due to driving on roads in need of repair. The American Jobs Plan will devote more than $600 billion to transform our nations' transportation infrastructure and make it more resilient, including $115 billion repairing roads and bridges.
 * PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: Kansans who take public transportation spend an extra 65.7% of their time commuting and non-White households are 3.0 times more likely to commute via public transportation. 12% of trains and other transit vehicles in the state are past useful life. The American Jobs Plan will modernize public transit with an $85 billion investment.
 * RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE: From 2010 to 2020, Kansas has experienced 42 extreme weather events, costing the state up to $20 billion in damages. The President is calling for $50 billion to improve the resiliency of our infrastructure and support communities' recovery from disaster.
 * DRINKING WATER: Over the next 20 years, Kansas's drinking water infrastructure will require $5.3 billion in additional funding. The American Jobs Plan includes a $111 billion investment to ensure clean, safe drinking water is a right in all communities.
 * HOUSING: In part due to a lack of available and affordable housing, 163,000 renters in Kansas are rent burdened, meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on rent. The President proposes investing over $200 billion to increase housing supply and address the affordable housing crisis.
 * BROADBAND: 14.3% of Kansans live in areas where, by one definition, there is no broadband infrastructure that provides minimally acceptable speeds. And 51% of Kansans live in areas where there is only one such provider. Even where infrastructure is available, broadband may be too expensive to be within reach. 15% of Kansas households do not have an internet subscription. The American Jobs Plan would invest $100 billion to bring universal, reliable, high-speed, and affordable coverage to every family in America.
 * CAREGIVING: Across the country, hundreds of thousands of older adults and people with disabilities are in need of home and community-based services. The President's plan will invest $400 billion to help more people access care and improve the quality of caregiving jobs.


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 *CHILD CARE: In Kansas, there is an estimated $257 million gap in what schools need to do maintenance and make improvements and 44% of residents live in a childcare desert. The American Jobs Plan will modernize our nation's schools and early learning facilities and build new ones in neighborhoods across Kansas and the country.
 * MANUFACTURING: Manufacturers account for more than 16.3% of total output in Kansas, employing 167,000 workers, or 11.7% of the state's workforce. The American Job's Plan will invest $300 billion to retool and revitalize American manufacturers.
 * HOME ENERGY: In Kansas, an average low-income family spends 6-8% of their income on home energy costs forcing tough choices between paying energy bills and buying food, medicine or other essentials. The American Jobs Plan will upgrade low-income homes to make them more energy efficient through a historic investment in the Weatherization Assistance Program, a new Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator to finance building improvements, and expanded tax credits to support home energy upgrades.
 * CLEAN ENERGY JOBS: As of 2019, there were 24,909 Kansans working in clean energy, and the American Jobs Plan invests in creating more good paying union jobs advancing clean energy production by extending and expanding tax credits for clean energy generation, carbon capture and sequestration and clean energy manufacturing.
 * VETERANS HEALTH: Kansas is home to over 191,186 veterans, 9.2% of whom are women and 45.6% of whom are over the age of 65. The President is calling for $18 billion to improve the infrastructure of VA health care facilities to ensure the delivery of world-class, state of the art care to veterans enrolled in the VA health care system. This includes improvements to ensure appropriate care for women and older veterans.


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Virginia. These drops involved the use of a concrete-filled drum attached to an operating canister system. The purpose of this phase was to demonstrate the adequacy of the mechanical system of deploying the parachutes. Subsequently, the drops were made by the C-130’s at Pope Field, North Carolina, from low levels to perfect a means of extracting the spacecraft from the aircraft. Full-scale spacecraft and operating parachutes were used in these drops, and all operational features of the drop-test program were worked out. The next phase was the research and development drops offshore of Wallops Island, Virginia, and the objectives here were as follows: to study the stability of the spacecraft during free fall and with parachute support; to study the shock input to the spacecraft by parachute deployment; and to study and develop retrieving operations.

Design work was started on the Little Joe vehicles and test model spacecraft.

Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace II was appointed by NASA Headquarters as Chairman of a Special Committee on Life Sciences by T. Keith Glennan, the NASA Administrator. After prospective astronaut candidates were interviewed in Washington, D. C., those chosen for further consideration received medical examinations at the Lovelace Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico (see Feb. 1-14, 1959, entry).

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The Space Task Group, unofficially established on October 8, 1958, was officially formed at Langley Field, Virginia, to implement a manned satellite project. Robert R. Gilruth and Charles J. Donlan were appointed as Project Manager and Assistant Project Manager, respectively. The memorandum of establishment listed a total of 35 people from Langley assigned to the Space Task Group. The following personnel were transferred from the Langley Research Center to the newly established Space Task Group: Robert R. Gilruth, Charles J. Donlan, Paul E. Purser, Maxime A. Faget, Charles H. Zimmerman, William M. Bland, Aleck C. Bond, Alan B. Kehlet, Charles W. Mathews, Edison M. Fields, Robert G. Chilton, Jerome B. Hammack, Jack C. Heberlig, Claiborne R. Hicks, Ronald Kolenkiewicz, Christopher C. Kraft, Howard C. Kyle, William T. Lauten, John B. Lee, George F. MacDougall, John P. Mayer, William C. Muhley, Herbert G. Patterson, Harry H. Ricker, Frank C. Robert, Joseph J. Rollins, Ronelda F. Sartor, Paul D. Taylor, Shirley J. Hartley, Norma L. Livesay, Betsy F. Magin, Jacquelyn B. Stearn, Julia R. Watkins, Nancy C. Lowe, and Shirley P. Watkins. Personnel detailed from the Lewis Research Center to the Space Task Group and Project Mercury were as follows: E. H. Buller, A. M. Busch, W. R. Dennis, M. J. Krasnican, Glynn S. Lunney, Andre J. Meyer, W. R. Meyer, W. J. Nesbitt, Gerald J. Pesman, and Leonard Rabb. Individuals from Lewis remained on a detailed status until 1959 when they were permanently reassigned to the Space Task Group. The 45 people listed above were the embryo work force of Project Mercury.

As a note of interest, on the fourth anniversary of the activation document, 21 of the original Langley reassignees and 3 of the Lewis group were members of the Manned Spacecraft Center, the successor of the Space Task Group.

A contractor briefing, attended by some 40 prospective bidders on the manned spacecraft, was held at the Langley Research Center. More detailed specifications were then prepared and distributed to about 20 manufacturers who had stated an intention to bid on the project.

Specifications for the manned spacecraft (Specification Number S-6) were issued, and final copies were mailed on November 17, 1958, to 20 firms which had indicated a desire to be considered as bidders.

The highest national procurement priority rating (DX) was requested for the manned spacecraft project.

Twenty firms notified the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of their intention to prepare proposals for the development of the manned