Hamilton O. Smith

John Quincy Adams actually won.

1858, Hamilton Smith is awarded the patent for the rotary washing machine.

1861, the Pony Express from Missouri to California ends after only 19 months.

1869, the first steeplechase begins.

Um, cells that have, uh, the right restriction enzymes, uh, will cleave the phage bac- uh, DNA so that it can't infect, uh, the, um, the incoming, uh, the incoming phage can't infect the bacterium.

This discovery of bacteri- ph- of, um, of restriction enzymes was not done by Hamilton Smith at Johns Hopkins in, uh, the 1950s.

It was done by, uh, [laughs] some bacterium about 300 million years ago.

Okay.