Re: Research funding and bloodwork

Chris Malcolm <cam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

: One of my favourite examples of that is Faraday. He had a bee in his
: bonnet about electricity which he wanted to chase up. He couldn't
: produce any good reasons why that research would be nationally useful,
: whereas the govt which funded him were convinced that what the British
: Navy and British optical industry really really wanted was a superior
: British optical glass. So for many years they paid Faraday to try to
: find the very important optical glass they wanted. He failed to find
: it. Finally he gave up and said he really insisted on looking into
: this electric stuff. He had a hunch. An angry govt cut all his
: funding, but his university took pity on him and let him have an old
: shed and some outdated lab equipment.

: He soon invented the electric motor...

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: Chris Malcolm cam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx DoD #205
: IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
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My late uncle, who was a physicist, told us that mush basic research in
the US was done with funding from the US Navy. They seemed willing in the
post war period, to fund stuff because they never know what might result.
This was a major source of funding for researchers.

Wendy
.

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