Marlow-on-Thames - The Weir Prior to 1905

pepandtim posted a photo:

The Postcard

A postcard bearing no publisher's name. The card has an undivided back. It was posted using a 1d. stamp in Streatham, London on Saturday the 18th. March 1905.

The recipient's name and address, which stretched across the undivided back of the card, was as follows:

Mademoiselle Jeanne de Gauvain,
Villa Mon Souhait,
Saint-Honoré-les-Bains,
France.

A Paper by Albert Einstein

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

Well, on the 18th. March 1905, Albert Einstein submitted for publication his paper "On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light."

In the paper Albert explained the photoelectric effect using the notion of light quanta. The paper was published on the 9th. June 1905.

Final thought from Ian Dury and the Blockheads:

"There ain’t half been
some clever bastards ..."

Thomas Townsend Brown

The day also marked the birth, in Zanesville, Ohio of the American inventor Thomas Townsend Brown.

Thomas is known for his observation of what he called the Biefeld–Brown effect, and for his attempt to build an anti-gravity device. Thomas died in 1985.

Robert Donat

Also born on the 18th. March 1905, in Withington, Lancashire, was the English film actor and Academy Award Winner Robert Donat.

Robert is especially known for Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and The 39 Steps He died in 1958 from a cerebral thrombosis.