They Forged Ahead: A Cautionary Tale by Nigel Roth
3 min readDec 27, 2020
In the middle months of 1824, a man called Lozier woke with an idea. Where it came from is uncertain, but it formed in his mind like jello in an ocean. In the middle months of 1950, Lothar Malskat woke with an idea too. Percolating for several days, it had finally made its way to the front of his mind, and presented itself as a brilliant thought.
