Dr. Betty Wright Harris
born on 29 July 1940
Dr. Betty Wright Harris is an American chemist. She is known for her work on the chemistry of explosives completed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She patented a spot test for detecting 1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene (TATB) in the field, which is used by the Federal Department of Homeland Security to screen for nitroaromatic explosives.[1][2]
James Edward Maceo West
born February 10, 1931 –
The work of James Edward Maceo West transformed the way people around the world hear and transmit sound. In 1962, West, then a research scientist at Bell Laboratories, developed the foil electret microphone in partnership with his colleague Dr. Gerhard M. Sessler.
Until that time, most microphones, which transform sound into an electrical signal, needed a cumbersome and expensive battery in order to operate.
By contrast, West and Sessler used an electret, in their case Teflon, to drive the sound conversion. Electrets are materials that can be permanently charged or polarized following exposure to an electric field.
African American inventor Marie Van Brittan Brown, along with her husband Albert L. Brown contributed to a safer society with her invention of the first home security system. Their invention was the first closed-circuit television security system and paved the way for modern home security systems used today.
Mrs. Brown was born in 1922 in Jamaica, Queens, New York. She started off her career working as a nurse. Her husband, Albert L. Brown, was an electronic technician.
As a nurse, Mrs. Brown worked long hours and would return home late at night. Her husband, too, had irregular hours so she was often alone at night.
Fearful of being vulnerable in a high crime neighborhood, the Browns decided to figure out a way to see who was at their door if they heard knocking.
Lonnie George Johnson
(born October 6, 1949)
Out of both interest and economic necessity, Johnson’s father was a skilled handyman who taught his six children to build their own toys.
When Johnson was still a small boy, he and his dad built a pressurized china berry shooter out of bamboo shoots.
At the age of 13, Johnson attached a lawnmower engine to a go-kart he built from junkyard scraps and raced it along the highway until the police pulled him over.
X-Ray Spectrometer US Patent No. 4,472,728 Inducted in 2015
In 2010, Dr. Alcorn received the highest award of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the Robert H. Goddard Award of Merit, “for outstanding innovation and significant contributions to space science, technology, and NASA programs as an engineer, a physicist, a professor and an inventor.”
I’m always a bit dubious when I see the sort of Christian advertising that guarantees a blessing. I would love to claim a free spiritual blessing if you read my blog but I cannot. Occasionally someone will say that God has blessed them through something I have said or written, but that is very rare indeed, and no one is more surprised than me. The evangelist who promises that all your problems will fade away if you come to Jesus is doing Jesus a great disservice. I sometimes feel like the message should be, ‘Come to Jesus and find out what problems really are.’
Jesus never promised his followers a problem-free life, what he did promise was to be with us forever, even until the end of the age. Jesus is present with us through the Holy Spirit, the Spirit…
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And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, Ephesians 5:18–19
And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language. And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language? … But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.” Acts 2:6-8, 13
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins. Mark 2:22
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Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink’, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” John 4:10 ESVUK
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. – John 7:37–39
Life can sometimes be like a desert, but the Holy Spirit is always like a river. – Anon.
A story.
Living water was a common idea. Everybody…
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There’s a little game I used to play with friends online. Take a song lyric and use Google Translate to translate it through different languages, say from English to French to German to Spanish and back to English. Here’s one I did from English to Greek to Portuguese to Arabic and back to English:
Breathe, breath of God: Fill yourself with life again.
Do you recognise the first line of the hymn, Breathe on me breath of God, Fill me with life anew? It has changed in meaning, hasn’t it. That is because words in one language do not have a direct equivalent in another language.
Now try another, simpler this time. Take the word Spirit, translate into Hebrew and back into English. The word we get at the end is Breath. Hebrew is a concise language…
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