Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Silvanus P. Thompson
Born: June 19, 1851
Died: June 12, 1916 (aged 64)
Bio: Silvanus Phillips Thompson was a professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891 and was known for his work as an electrical engineer and as an author.
Known for:
- Calculus Made Easy (1910)
- Dynamo-electric machinery (1884)
- Michael Faraday: His Life and Work (1898)