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Thomas Edison’s to-do list, 1888 #NationalHandwritingDay

Among Edison’s “things doing and to be done,”:

Cotton picker, new standard phonograph, deaf apparatus, electrical piano, artificial silk, marine telegraphy. chalk battery, ink for blind.
Da Vinci's to-do list #NationalHandwritingDay

Calculate the measurement of Milan and Suburbs, discover the measurement of Corte Vecchio, get the master of arithmetic to show you how to square a triangle, draw Milan.
Henry VIII's love letter to Anne Boleyn, 1527 #NationalHandwritingDay

“written with the hand of him who wishes he were yours.”
His to-do list is brilliant.

- Ask Benedetto Potinari (A Florentine Merchant) by what means they go on ice in Flanders
- Ask Maestro Antonio how mortars are positioned on bastions by day or night.
- Ask about the measurement of the sun promised me by Maestro Giovanni Francese
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