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    • Calendar of Patent Records - Nature

      Nature· 5 days ago

      April 14, 1720.—The ‘stoving’ process of seasoning timber for shipbuilding—in which the timber is heated in wet sand—was the invention of John Cumberland, whose patent is dated April 14, 1720 ...

    • Calendar of Scientific Pioneers - Nature

      Nature· 4 days ago

      Edward Forbes died.—Though only thirty-nine when he died, Forbes was regarded as the leading British naturalist of the first half of the nineteenth century. Naturalist to the Beacon Expedition ...