What Have You Accomplished? (Part 1)
At Age 21:
- English chemist Humphry Davy discovered nitrous oxide (“laughing gas”), and suggested that it may have use as an anesthetic.
- College dropout Steven Jobs co-founded Apple Computer.
- French mathematician Evariste Galois developed group theory (and many other theorems) before his death at the age of 21.
- John Singleton directed his first film, “Boyz ‘N the Hood.”
- Orson Welles produced and performed his “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast, terrifying millions of people. He also got his face on the cover of Time Magazine.
- Francois-Louis Cailler manufactured the world’s first eating chocolate to be commercially produced.
- By this age, Charles Chaplin had appeared in 35 films.
- P. T. Barnum bought a “160-year-old” slave woman and began a career in show business.
- Bavarian painter Aloys Senefelder invented the lithograph.
- Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space.
- Ernest Hemingway published his first novel, The Sun Also Rises.
- Memphis millionaire Frederic W. Smith, whose father built the Greyhound bus system, founded Federal Express.
- The Buddha decided to renounce the world and abandon family and possessions. Seven years later, he realized this b