Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"
I'll bet you several people have already done it. However, were they **working** models. Like the Babbage Engine built out of Tinker Toys or Turing's Enigma Machine built out of Meccano (Erector Sets to us colonial types), that's the quantum leap between "neat" and "wow".
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Ho hum. When he builds one with Legos, give me a call.
I'll bet you several people have already done it. However, were they **working** models. Like the Babbage Engine built out of Tinker Toys or Turing's Enigma Machine built out of Meccano (Erector Sets to us colonial types), that's the quantum leap between "neat" and "wow".
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