Quote of the day
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
John Hopkinson

Born: July 27, 1849
Died: August 27, 1898 (aged 49)
Bio: John Hopkinson, FRS, was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE twice in 1890 and 1896. He invented the three-wire system for the distribution of electrical power, for which he was granted a patent in 1882.