QuoteBut I keep asking myself, why would anyone go to the trouble of mirror writing a message in the first place.

Fwiw! Reflections.
Turn on a fan and place it near glass and look at the reflection.
Thought Id throw that in there.

Quote from: protonmom on February 14, 2010, 03:42:54 PM

"Author Of This Expression:
Now if you can't read backwards, hold this before a mirror and read the reflection.
Nathan B. Stubblefield"

You  are right

This means that someone  has  reversed  the image already

I opened it in MS paint and hit flip horizontal
It  was easy to read then

I do not  think that  this  is  all that important
Anyone  remember  how much  education  Stubblfield had?
I am guessing not much.

I would  say that   Stubblfield  probably wrote that out to show  people he was not as dumb as they thought he was.

I  am guessing he  had dislexia and  that limited his  education
People with dislexia  sometimes transpose numbers  or write letters backwards ......for many dislexics  reading  backwards  is as easy as reading the normal way.

Gary

Edit

The  way I imagine  this  writing  came about
Someone  was bothering  Stubblfield  with claims like  " you can't even write correctly."

Stubblfield then writes out the top part of the page..........backwards and asks the person to read it........of course they can't

So  then  Stubblefield   scrawls the  part at the bottom so they can figure it  out...........and walks  away.

Gary:

I find your explanation of this note very plausible.  It very well might have happened just like that.

Of course, we will probably never know for sure but, that is as good an explanation as any.  I agree about the dyslexia part as well.

Bill

of course he was southern and we do like to joke around..
even i like to play with peoples mind abit..
its just the way we r rised..
wouldn't you say
bill
haha

robbie

oh edit .. i got my own thinking as to how this secondary works just like john does.. it may be a trigger coil with a magnetic contact to the non used battery start of the input on the battery itself..
that would indeed increase the output.. if the magnetic flux could pull the contacts too..
but then it would be ac .. maybe

robbie

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