Everything's Wrong at the Same Time It's Wright



The New York Times' famous retraction of a 1920 article
It might be assumed that the flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years. - Editorial in The New York Times, October 9, 1903, two months and eight days before ... you know.

 And don't miss the paper's Apollo-Age apology, almost fifty years on, for its vaccuum-tubed twitting in 1920 of one Professor Goddard

     His Plan Is Not Original

over the ... impossibility of a rocket's transit ... From the Earth to the Moon.

 nowiknow.com via "Did You Know?" filler in Reader's Digest, April 2013, p. 109

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