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At the age of seven, Santos Dumont drove the locomotives, steam engines that transported the crop to the main railway. At the age of 12, he convinced a steam engine driver to let him drive one of the main locomotives in the country at the time, a Baldwin, pulling a car full of coffee to a processing mill. that cant be true

October 1901, Dumont won the Deutsch award for flying around the Eiffel Tower in his Nº 6 dirigible, which was shaped like a cigar. When he left his balloon, Alberto Santos Dumont received from one of the spectators a steaming cup of coffee to celebrate the feat that proved that men could control flying machines.

Ms Rebecca S. - be not so lonely. If family wealth, influence and exposure to less common experiences while young had such great consequences, there's no reason to believe that lacking the first two does more than delay the potenial flowering of the last.

What think you of assisting in performing a grand experiment? The idea in general is to take a half dozen or so families and their young offspring in a place on the fringe of the megolopolis to a new level of experience while changing little of how their life is and was in the days of thier parents and thier parents parents before them. All that is infused into the situation is construction of a new place right next door to them where no one has built anything much in the past 20 years. The place offers a hospitable opportunity for the mothers to do work that they know. They work when it can fit in around thier family obligations. The work brings in a little bit of extra household cash flow. There's training for the work and access to equipments for them to use that some may or may not have of thier own for their own families household use. It offers a space for the children to play, entertain and be entertained from time to time when they are not at school (and the space is not being used in the course of thier mother's work). By the time the youngest of the children go to serve thier mandatory military subscription they hopefully will know at least one other language even if it's not offered in thier school and if they are diligent and attentive in what's offered in after school hours, they may be nearly as knowlegeable in science, math and engineering as their instructors at the FAB or where ever they enter service. From a group of six to eight families in the poor but decent fringes empowered by but a little help and dedicated spirits will there come one famous engineer, one professor, one brigadier, one leader of the world? Be not alone - reach out and help.