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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
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Subject: Re: JT?
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Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 14:48:00 EST
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>/* darrell@sdcsvax.UUCP (Darrell Long) /  2:46 pm  Apr 20, 1985 */

>Does  anyone know the origin of the name "Jethro Tull"?   I'm told by a
>friend that it comes from literature,  as does "Uriah Heap" (you all do
>remember Uriah Heap don't you?).  Uriah Heap, I believe, had its origin
>in a story by Charles Dickens.
>-- 
>Darrell Long


Jethro Tull invented the seed drill in England, during (I believe)
the seventeenth century.

In my opinion, "Thick as a Brick" is a more important invention.

						Michael Sykora