Submitted by Hrtzy t3_zl75dj in todayilearned
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Landlubber77 t1_j03sce1 wrote
Pascal wagered that people would take the bus, and he was right.
DiabeticPissingSyrup t1_j04e755 wrote
The first bus line was started by Mrs Dorris Higgins, who stood for twenty minutes tutting loudly about how bad the service had got.
canopenerboy t1_j0461b3 wrote
A couple fun facts about busses, to this day:
A change in attitude in any passenger riding an enclosed bus is transmitted undiminished to all passengers on that bus.
Pressure exerted by a passenger trying to get a driver to stop at a non-designated place is transmitted equally and undiminished to all other passengers on that bus who then act at right angles to the enclosing walls, to tell the driver to keep going.
halfpipesaur t1_j068eb6 wrote
The bus induction theorem:
If a city bus can fit n number of people, then n+1 people would fit as well
pickleer t1_j04pzbf wrote
Was this person not in any other way noteworthy?
Hrtzy OP t1_j03ppll wrote
> In a corporation founded in November 1661 on the initiative of Blaise Pascal, with the participation of the Duke of Roannez (governor and lieutenant-general of the province of Poitou), the Marquis de Sourches (knight of the king's orders and Grand Provost of the Hotel), and the Marquis de Crenan, the entrepreneurs presented a request to establish an operator for "carriages which would always make the same journeys...and would always leave at scheduled times".
Pascal's name is immortalized in the SI unit for pressure.