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Calendar of Discovery and Invention - Nature
Nature· 20 hours agoTo George IV.he went equested that he would confirm the patent as royal predecessors had done, and pointed out to him several of their signatures. ‘Would you show inc Evelyn's,’ said the King ...
Calendar of Discovery and Invention - Nature
Nature· 20 hours agoOctober 16, 1759.—The building of Smeaton's Eddystone lighthouse, accupied the summers of 1756–1759, and the light was first exhibited on Oct. 16, 1759. The lighting apparatus consisted of 24 candles hold in bronze frame.
Calendar of Discovery and Invention - Nature
Nature· 20 hours agoOctober 2, 1901.—The first British submarine, launched at Barrow on Oct. 2, 1901, was 63 ft, long and 11 ft. 9 in, wide. From the sixteenth century onwards, numerous attempts were made to produce ...
Calendar of Customs and Festivals - Nature
Nature· 20 hours agoA rite practised on Christmas Eve as well as on New Year's Eve in many parts of Great Britain, but especially in the south and west, was that of wassailing the fruit trees. A bowl of eider and ...
Yamal: Messi pic was hidden to limit comparisons
ESPN.co.uk· 15 hours agoThe images were part of a series of photographs taken for a charity calendar organised by Catalan newspaper Diario Sport in conjunction with UNICEF....
Calendar of Scientific Pioneers - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoAugust 25, 1814. Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford, died.—The founder of the Royal Institution and of the Rumford medals of the Royal Society and the American Academy of Sciences, Rumford ...
Calendar of Patent Records - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoOctober 12, 1849.—The ordinary wire safety-pin was patented by Charles Rowley, button manufacturer, of Birmingham, on Oct. 12, 1849. Though pins of this kind were apparently not known at that ...
Calendar of Scientific Pioneers - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoAugust 19, 1662. Blaise Pascal died.—A religious philosopher, mathematician, and physicist, the author of the “Provincial Letters” and the “Pensees,” Pascal spent the earlier part of his life ...
Calendar of Patent Records - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoJanuary 21, 1630.—The first patent to contain a direct proposal to raise water by fire was granted in England to David Ramsey, one of the grooms of the Privy Chamber, on Jan. 21, 1630. The patent ...
Calendar of Industrial Pioneers - Nature
Nature· 20 hours agoJohn Loudon McAdam died.—The great improver of road-making, McAdam began his experiments in Ayrshire, continued them at Falmouth, where he was a contractor for the Navy, and in 1815 was made ...
