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- James Watt (5070 bytes)
2: <div style="float:right">[[image:James Watt small.jpg]]</div>
3: ...nd [[engineer]] whose improvements to the [[steam engine]] were a key stage in the [[Industrial Revolu...
5: ...ociety]]. Many of his papers are in [[Birmingham Central Library]].
8: * [[1736]]: Born in Greenock, Scotland
9: ...[1754]]: Learned the trade of mathematical-instrument making in [[London]] before returning to [[Glasg... - Boulton and Watt (684 bytes)
1: ...oundry]] in [[Smethwick]], near [[Birmingham]], [[England]].
3: ...orking Boulton and Watt engine is the [[Smethwick Engine]].
5: Another working Boulton and Watt beam engine - dating from 1812 - can be found at [[Crofto...
7: ...rking rotative steam engine, built by Boulton and Watt in [[1785]] to grind malt in [[Samuel Whitbread (...
10: *[[Steam engine]] - Watt steam engine (4120 bytes)
1: ...denser, which was not found on the Newcomen steam engine.]]
2: ...water. Watt's design became synonymous with steam engines, due in no small part to his partner, [[Matt...
4: ...ive of which could now be found at mines all over England.
6: ...the cylinder back up to boiling temperatures, condensing while this occured.
8: ...n the steam rushed from the cylinder into the condenser, which was kept cold and under less than atmos...
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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...n the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the manufacture of more production machines ...
3: ...development of [[Electric power|electrical power generation]].
5: ...often compared to the [[Neolithic revolution]], when mankind developed [[agriculture]] and gave up its...
7: ...guste Blanqui]] in the second half of the [[19th century]].
10: ...of the main causes was the invention of the steam engine. - Actinium (7046 bytes)
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15: ! colspan="2" bgcolor="#ff99cc" | General - James Watt (5070 bytes)
2: <div style="float:right">[[image:James Watt small.jpg]]</div>
3: ...nd [[engineer]] whose improvements to the [[steam engine]] were a key stage in the [[Industrial Revolu...
5: ...ociety]]. Many of his papers are in [[Birmingham Central Library]].
8: * [[1736]]: Born in Greenock, Scotland
9: ...[1754]]: Learned the trade of mathematical-instrument making in [[London]] before returning to [[Glasg... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
9: * 400 KYA: [[Pigment]]s in [[Zambia]]
14: * 26 KYA: [[Venus of Dolni Vestonice|Ceramics]] in [[Moravia]]
17: ===[[9th millennium BC]]=== - Sun (20830 bytes)
6: | colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:The Sun w920607.jpg |270px|The Sun]...
8: ! bgcolor="#ffffc0" colspan="2" align="center" | '''Observation data'''
13: ! align="left" | [[Apparent magnitude|Visual brightness]] (''V'')
19: ! bgcolor="#ffffc0" colspan="2" align="center" | '''[[Orbit]]al characteristics'''
30: ! bgcolor="#ffffc0" colspan="2" align="center" | '''Physical characteristics''' - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
1: This is a '''list of inventors'''.
3: ...d after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[inventor]].
10: *[[Thomas Ahearn]], inventor of the electric stove in [[1892]]
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
14: ...27 - June, 1996)of the [[Canada|Canadian]] Department of Agriculture — instant mashed potato fl... - Pioneer 11 (5118 bytes)
3: ...]] toward Saturn. It passed close to Saturn and then it followed an escape trajectory from the [[solar...
5: ... threshold settings were modified, based on experience gained from the settings used on Pioneer 10. Th...
7: ...m [[celestial mechanics]] and [[occultation phenomena]].
9: ...mber 1]], [[1979]], three days before its closest encounter. The [[moon]] [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] is vi...
11: ...ents. As of the end of [[1995]], when its mission ended, the spacecraft was located at 44.7 AU from th... - Morse code (33777 bytes)
2: ...ns without a computer, making it appropriate for sending automated digital data in voice channels.
4: .... International Morse code is composed of six elements:
7: # intra-character gap (between the dots and dashes within a character)
8: # short gap (between letters)
9: # medium gap (between words) - Lightning (33113 bytes)
10: ... similarity with lightning. [[Benjamin Franklin]] endeavored to test this theory by using a spire whic...
12: ...nd a spark jumped the gap. The rain which had fallen during the storm had soaked the line and made it ...
14: ...d]] and [[De Lors]]) had conducted similar experiments in [[France]], Franklin had suggested the origi...
16: ...were blown open, parts of his clothes singed, the engraver knocked out, the doorframe of the room spli...
18: ...od]], likely because of the results of his experiment. - Baltimore Orioles (15758 bytes)
7: ...:''' [[Oriole Park at Camden Yards]] [[1992]]-present
12: :'''American League pennants won''' (7): [[1944 in sports|1944]], 1966, [...
18: ..., nearly two decades before big league baseball eventually arrived in [[California]].
20: ...s won their only St. Louis based American League pennant in [[1944]], but they faced their local rival...
22: ...eason, Veeck sold his controlling interest to Clarence Miles, and the American League owners approved ... - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
4: image_caption=[[Scientist]], [[inventor]] of the telephone and innovations in aviation...
5: quotation=A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born wit...
12: ...;[[August 2]] [[1922]]) was a [[scientist]], [[inventor]], and founder of the Bell Telephone Company, ...
15: ...t of admiration for Alexander Graham, a family friend.
19: ...he is said to have turned his attention to the science of acoustics, with a view to ameliorate the dea... - Windmill (7108 bytes)
2: ...ater]] on farms and modern [[wind turbine]]s for generating [[electricity]].
8: ...cient]] wind-powered water pumps and [[power]] [[generator]]s.
12: The development of the water-pumping windmill in the [[USA]] was...
16: ...ovided a means for manual operation of the pump when the wind was not blowing. Some pump jacks provid...
18: ...ly continued a short distance more. This arrangement allowed wells as deep as 1200 [[feet]] (370 m) t... - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Ronald W. Reagan
4: | order=40th President
16: | vicepresident=George H.W. Bush
19: ..., and head of the [[Screen Actor's Guild]] before entering politics.
23: ...s grandfather's emigration, the family name had been spelled ''Regan''. - History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
6: ...chanized transport, railways had their start in [[England]] in the [[1820s]]. They remained the only p...
9: ...estershire]] (in [[1789]]). In [[1802]], Jessop opened the [[Surrey Iron Railway]] in south [[London]]...
11: ...rd Trevithick]] developed the high pressure steam engine in the 1800s.
14: ...hard Trevithick died in poverty, with his achievement being largely unrecognized.
16: ...sets of parallel tracks for trains going in different directions. - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
6: ...y [[riverboat]]s in the [[USA]]; '''steamship''' generally refers to steam powered [[ship]]s capable o...
8: ... used, out of nostalgia, for [[diesel]] motor driven vessels, prefix "'''MV'''".
13: ==Early development==
15: ...e and steam-powered or not is unclear. River boatmen took exception to the threat to their trade, and ...
17: ...Watt's engine on a visit to England, made his own engine and in [[1763]] attempted to put it in a boat... - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...its literal meaning is "the recitation" and is often called "Al Qur'ān Al Karīm": "The Noble...
6: ... Muslims to be divinely inspired. After a short opening, the Qur'an proceeds to the longest sura, and ...
10: ...its resembling paragraphs and comprising roughly ten ayat each.
14: ...from that time. (The ''[[Mu'allaqat]]'', or ''Suspended Odes'', are believed by some to be examples of...
16: ...ed in Qur'anic times, rather than the current spoken dialects. - Ice age (15810 bytes)
4: ...e term ''ice age'' in the former, glaciological, sense; and use the term 'glacial periods' for colder ...
6: ...uencies. These are the best studied. There have been four major ice ages in the further past.
10: ...ed evidence in support of this idea. In 1836 Charpentier convinced [[Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz|Louis...
12: ...e past few hundred thousand years, during the current ice age. The far earlier ice ages were unsuspect...
16: ...om 460 to 430 million years ago. There was an extensive ice age from 350 to 260 million years ago. - Literature (25676 bytes)
1: ... intellectual and meaningful is subjective and often controversial or dubious, but it does not interfe...
7: More generally, one can equate a literature with a collect...
9: ...ritten language ([[hieroglyph]]s, for example). Even more conservative interpreters of the concept wou...
11: ...nre fiction]] (for example: romance, crime, or science fiction) may also become excluded from consider...
13: ...rtext]]s, [[cave painting]]s and inscribed [[monument]]s have all at one time or another pushed the bo... - Americium (6956 bytes)
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7: | colspan="2" align="center" | [[plutonium]] – '''americium''' &ndas...
9: | rowspan="3" valign="center" | [[Europium|Eu]]<br>'''Am'''<br /> &nbs...
11: | align="center" | [[Image:-TableImage.png]]
15: ...span="2" bgcolor="#ff99cc" | <font color="black">General</font> - Antimony (9093 bytes)
5: {| align="center" border="0"
7: | colspan="2" align="center" | [[tin]] – '''antimony''' – [[te...
9: | rowspan="3" valign="center" | [[Arsenic|As]]<br />'''Sb'''<br />[[Bismuth|Bi]] &nb...
11: | align="center" | [[Image:Sb-TableImage.png]]
15: ! colspan="2" bgcolor="#cccc99" | General
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