Date: 1922
"When the two gases previously mentioned are mixed in the presence of a filament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected...
preview | full record— Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
Date: February 8, 1996
"These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron."
preview | full record— Barlow, John Perry (b. 1947)