▶ 1847, March 1847, March 3rd 1847, the United Kingdom, Europe, …the EU,
Scotland,
Great Britain,
Edinburgh,
the world,
Western Europe,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the British Isles,
the Northern Hemisphere,
Northern Europe,
Midlothian, UK postcode area EH, Lothian and Borders, Africa-Eurasia,
Eurasia,
the G8, the Edinburgh telephone code area, City of Edinburgh, the true knowledge good local retailer coverage area,
US postal Group 5, the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands, the British time region
▶ 1922; August 1922; August 2nd 1922; Canada; North America; …
▶ person; entrepreneur; engineer; physicist; Pisces person; …
▶ "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."; "What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."; "The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world."; "The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion."; "Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."; …"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."; "Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself."; "Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."; "America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men."; "A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."