Br'er Rabbit aunt from the State of Georgia, that "She knew all the 'Br'er Rabbit' stories, and I was brought up on them. One of my uncles, Robert Roosevelt, was much struck with them, and took them down from her dictation, publishing them in "Harper's", where they fell flat. This was a good many years before a genius arose who, in 'Uncle Remus', made the stories immortal." These stories were popularized for the mainstream audience in the late 19th century by Joel Chandler Harris (1845–1908), who wrote down and published many such stories that had been passed down by oral tradition. Harris
Remus Răduleț Remus Răduleț Remus Răduleţ (1904–1984) was a Romanian electrical engineer, who contributed to the development of the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary and theoretical electrotechnology. He served as president of International Electrotechnical Commission 1964 and 1967. He was born in 1904 in Brădeni, then ROMANIA, now in Sibiu County of Romania. He studied electromechanical engineering at the Polytechnical University of Timişoara, then at ETH Zurich. He coordinated the writing of the Romanian Technical Lexicon, a vast multilingual technical encyclopedia. This activity enabled him to contribute to the international standardized vocabulary of electrotechnology. C. de Sabata, I. Muntean Remember Profesori ai Şcoalei Politehnice