[Ads-l] Murphy's Law

[Bill Mullins]

Has this early version been cited yet?  I tried searching the archives for "Engineering News" and didn't come across it.

1878 Engineering News 23 May 162/2

It is found that anything that can go wrong at sea generally does go wrong sooner or later, so it is not to be wondered that owners prefer the safe to the scientific.

https://archive.org/details/sim_enr_january-december-1878_5/page/n223/mode/1up?q=%22anything+that+can+go+wrong%22

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