ATDTDA (17): A pale individual in a black cape (463.25) - Part 2

[Tim Strzechowski]

"Oh, that's 'at there Zoltan, drives a Werner" [...]

On January 7, 1898, the brothers Michel and Eugene Werner, two émigré Russian journalists, patented their "Motocyclette" powered two-wheeler, which had its engine mounted above the steering head, driving the front wheel by belt. They had already built two prototype.

The First True Motorcycle

Far-sighted businessmen and prolific inventors, the Werner brothers applied for patent after patent - typewriters, phonographs, cinematographs and motorcycles were their main fields of endeavor. They experimented with various engine locations before unveiling their masterpiece at the 1901 Cycle & Motor Show in Paris. The "New Werner" was the first practical powered two-wheeler with the engine mounted in the classic bottom-bracket position. Though others had experimented with this location, the Werners were the first to consider it worth patenting and to issue licenses for its use. Despite that the Werner Company failed in 1908 after the death of Michel at the early age of 46. The brothers had invested their money in Russian Securities, which suddenly collapsed, and Eugene Werner was ruined. [...]

http://www.bikerenews.com/AntiqueBikes/1904WernerMotorcyle.html

http://patentpending.blogs.com/patent_pending_blog/2005/12/the_werner_moto.html


Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, and acknowledged to be one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. He was born in Würzburg, Germany and died in Munich. Heisenberg was the head of German nuclear energy project, though the nature of this project, and his work in this capacity, has been heavily debated. He is most well-known for discovering one of the central principles of modern physics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg


And of course:

"Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation.  Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death."   

                                    -- Wernher Von Braun (GR, p. 1)