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Quote, it was destined to be the mother of machines, end quote.

The it, Daniel Borson, talks about in his 1983 book, The Discoverers, is the clock.

Borson, who served as the director of the National Museum of History and Technology of the

Smithsonian Institution, went on to write, quote,

The clock broke down the walls between kinds of knowledge, ingenuity, and skill,

and clockmakers were the first consciously to apply the theories of mechanics and physics

to the making of machines.

Clockmakers became the pioneer scientific instrument makers, end quote.

It's therefore particularly ironic that 14-year-old Ahmed Muhammad got yanked out of his Texas ninth grade classroom

September 14th, handcuffed, interrogated, and eventually suspended for having brought to school a

clock he'd built himself, because the adults present thought it could be a bomb. Hey, it was ticking,

wasn't it, this recapitulation of the work that helped make the

modern science-driven world? Of course, things have worked out okay. Muhammad is going to transfer

to a less easily startled school. The president invited him to the White House, and he's been

asked to attend the Google Science Fair taking place during the next few days in California.

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