ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I wish to thank Dr. Robert P. Multhauf, chairman of the Department of

Science and Technology in the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of

History and Technology, for encouragement in the writing of this paper

and for the provision of opportunity to consult the appropriate sources.

To Dr. W. James King of the American Institute of Physics, I am grateful

for many provocative discussions on this and related topics.

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