Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site cca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!cca!g-rh From: g-rh@cca.UUCP (Richard Harter) Newsgroups: net.games,net.books,net.nlang,net.lang.c,net.flame,net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Murphy's Laws??? Message-ID: <817@cca.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 01:38:21 EST Article-I.D.: cca.817 Posted: Tue Nov 6 01:38:21 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Nov-84 00:51:43 EST References: <1215@eosp1.UUCP> Organization: Computer Corp America, Cambridge Lines: 12 Xref: genrad net.games:1166 net.books:1173 net.nlang:2271 net.lang.c:3268 net.flame:7149 net.jokes.d:867 [] Murphy of Murphy's Law is Edwin Murphy (still living) who was on the Rocket Sled program in the early 50's. In one of their tests a technician who had to connect the instrumentation was not informed of which polarity to use and connected all of the instrumentation backwards. The test was eminently successful but no data was gathered. In the press conference afterwards Murphy made his now famous observation. Murphy's Law was picked up by a number of the Aerospace companies and took off from there. Richard Harter