A fascinating story! Please don’t let US patent examiners find out about this one, or that’s the end of our “impractical to perform in the human mind or with pen and paper” responses to mental process rejections.
@bartgonnissen.bsky.social1/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory
