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Beginning of a FAMOUS Hero: The George Eastman Story.
Life Lesson #40 – Drive Yourself.
More than 300 years ago, very early on a Christmas morning, a baby boy was born on a farm in England. His mother, Mrs. Newton, named him Isaac after his father who had died shortly before the baby’s birth. Isaac was a small boy and not very much HELP to his mother on their farm. It wasn’t that Isaac didn’t want to HELP his mother. He would start out to do his chores, then completely forget about them because he had so many wonderful ideas and questions filling his mind.
Isaac loved making little models of things that worked just like the big things they represented with wheels that turned and sails that moved. Once, Isaac made a model windmill that turned around and around even inside where there was no wind. He called it “mouse power,” because inside the mill Isaac had made a little treadmill and had put a tiny mouse to run on the treadmill and turn the wheel.
Well, little Isaac grew up studying and studying about science and math until he was famous for all the wonderful things he learned and taught other people about the planets, about colors, about gravity, motion, and many other things. And Isaac Newton became Sir Isaac Newton. Even our space ships that have gone to the moon and our space shuttles that travel around the earth are able to function because of the studies and experiments of this HERO of science and mathematics. So next time your teacher asks you to follow the scientific method, think about that little boy born long ago.
– Jim Lord