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- James Watt (5070 bytes)
2: <div style="float:right">[[image:James Watt small.jpg]]</div>
3: '''James Watt''' ([[January 19]], [[1736]]–[[August 19]],...
14: ...[[Matthew Boulton]] to manufacture his improved [[Watt steam engine]].
22: ...ghout the working cycle of the engine, so showing its efficiency.
24: ...am energy in heating the [[piston]] and chamber. Watt developed a separate [[condenser]] chamber which ... - Boulton and Watt (684 bytes)
1: ... between '''[[Matthew Boulton]]''' and '''[[James Watt]]''', made [[steam engine]]s at their [[Soho Foun...
3: The oldest working Boulton and Watt engine is the [[Smethwick Engine]].
5: Another working Boulton and Watt beam engine - dating from 1812 - can be found at ...
7: ...]] to grind malt in [[Samuel Whitbread (brewer)|Whitbread]]'s [[London]] brewery.
11: *[[Watt steam engine]] - Watt steam engine (4120 bytes)
1: ...g|frame|right|Diagram of the Watt Steam Engine in its most basic form showing the improvement of the s...
2: ... wind and water. Watt's design became synonymous with steam engines, due in no small part to his partn...
6: ...when the next charge of the stream was introduced it spent some time simply warming the cylinder back ...
8: ... later, it is said, a boy named Potter, whose job it was to turn these valves, connected the valve han...
10: ...ent of a test engine. This proved frustrating and Watt repeatedly almost gave up on the project, only to...
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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...and machine manufacture. It began in [[England]] with the introduction of [[steam engine|steam power]]...
3: ...hnological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of steam-powered [[ship]]s, and ...
5: ...hen mankind developed [[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|nomadic lifestyle]].
10: ...tion of [[Capital (economics)|capital]] are also cited as factors, as is the [[scientific revolution]]...
12: ...ther nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, which often imposed tolls an... - Actinium (7046 bytes)
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25: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
56: ...Kelvin|K]] (1050 ?[[Celsius|C]] / 1922 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
69: | [[Velocity of sound]]
74: | [[Electronegativity]] || 1.1 ([[Pauling scale]]) - James Watt (5070 bytes)
2: <div style="float:right">[[image:James Watt small.jpg]]</div>
3: '''James Watt''' ([[January 19]], [[1736]]–[[August 19]],...
14: ...[[Matthew Boulton]] to manufacture his improved [[Watt steam engine]].
22: ...ghout the working cycle of the engine, so showing its efficiency.
24: ...am energy in heating the [[piston]] and chamber. Watt developed a separate [[condenser]] chamber which ... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...ntion into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded versio...
5: ===[[Paleolithic|Paleolithic Era]]===
36: * 3500 BC: [[Cuneiform script|Writing]] in [[Sumer]]
62: ...century BC|400s BC]]: [[Catapult]] in [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]
99: ...eglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Italy]] - Sun (20830 bytes)
13: ! align="left" | [[Apparent magnitude|Visual brightness]] (''V'')
16: ! align="left" | [[Absolute magnitude]]
19: ...or="#ffffc0" colspan="2" align="center" | '''[[Orbit]]al characteristics'''
27: ! align="left" | Velocity
48: ! align="left" | Density - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
22: ... - (1938-) U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer.
28: ...Emile Berliner]], (1851-1929) [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[gramophone]]
31: *[[Bi Sheng]] — primitive movable [[printing]] types
40: ...her von Braun]], (1912-1977), [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[rocket]] technology - Pioneer 11 (5118 bytes)
3: ...toward Saturn. It passed close to Saturn and then it followed an escape trajectory from the [[solar sy...
5: ...acecraft's [[velocity]]. The thrusters could be either fired steadily or pulsed, by command.
7: ...]]s, sealed pressurized cells of [[argon]] and [[nitrogen]] gas for measuring penetration of meteoroid...
9: ...s closest encounter. The [[moon]] [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] is visible to the upper left.]]
11: ...] and was heading outward at 2.5 [[Astronomical Unit|AU]] /year. - Morse code (33777 bytes)
1: [[Image:Morse_sam.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse.Image provided by [http://c...
2: ...r, making it appropriate for sending automated digital data in voice channels.
4: ...s — on and off — it was an early form of a digital code. International Morse code is composed of s...
5: # short mark, dot or 'dit' (·)
7: ...intra-character gap (between the dots and dashes within a character) - Lightning (33113 bytes)
6: ...mpanied by the emission of [[light]]. The electricity passing through the discharge channels rapidly h...
10: ...t the idea of using a flying object, such as a [[kite]] instead.
12: ...len during the storm had soaked the line and made it conductive.
14: ...p idea that they used, so he usually gets the credit.
16: ...e of the room split, and the door itself torn off its hinges. - Baltimore Orioles (15758 bytes)
13: :'''Division titles won''' (8): 1969, 1970, 1971, [[1973 in sports...
14: :'''Wild Card titles won''' (1): [[1996 in sports|1996]]
18: ...inals|Cardinals]] - eventually forced Browns majority owner [[Bill Veeck]] to consider moving his fran...
22: ...", a name with a long and storied history in the city:
24: ...ociation]] in 1882. Despite its on-field success, it was one of the four teams contracted by the Natio... - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
5: ...eneral rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself. |
12: ...er of something|father of the telephone]]. In addition to his work in [[telecommunications]] technolo...
17: His family was associated with the teaching of [[elocution]]: his grandfather i...
19: ...urned his attention to the science of acoustics, with a view to ameliorate the deafness of his mother.
21: ...Vocal Physiology and Elocution at [[Boston University]]'s School of Oratory. - Windmill (7108 bytes)
2: ...modern [[wind turbine]]s for generating [[electricity]].
8: ...gy gained by [[crusader]]s who came into contact with windmills in the Middle East. [[Persian Empire|P...
10: ===In the United States===
14: ...ber of blades so that they would turn slowly but with considerable torque in low winds and be self reg...
16: ... allowing water to flow away in a trough by [[gravity]]. - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
15: | party=[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
19: ...f the [[Screen Actor's Guild]] before entering politics.
23: ...s four great-grandfathers had immigrated to the United States from [[Ballyporeen]], [[Ireland]] in th...
27: ...mb|left|200px|Ronald and his older brother Neil, with parents Jack and Nelle Reagan. (c. 1916-17)]] - History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
2: ... has a long '''[[history]]''', including systems with man or horse power and [[rail tracks|rails]] of ...
9: ...- arguably, the world's first public railway, albeit a horse-drawn one.
11: ...not used for locomotive power until [[Richard Trevithick]] developed the high pressure steam engine in...
14: ...ive talents, Richard Trevithick died in poverty, with his achievement being largely unrecognized.
16: ...vision of what steam railways could become, with cities and towns linked by a network of long distance... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
1: ...40px|Paddle steamers - [[Lake Lucerne|Lucerne]]-Switzerland]]
15: ...ception to the threat to their trade, and smashed it up.
17: ...e his own engine and in [[1763]] attempted to put it in a boat. The boat sank, and while he made an im...
21: ...ware River]], but then patent disputes dissuaded Fitch from continuing.
23: ...velopment was taken up both in [[United Kingdom|Britain]] and abroad. - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...am]]. [[Muslim]]s believe that the Qur'an is the literal word of God and the culmination of God's reve...
6: ... Qur'an proceeds to the longest sura, and closes with some of the shortest ones.
8: == The Qur'an as divided for reading and recitation ==
10: ...ture is provided by the [[ruku'at]], semantical units resembling paragraphs and comprising roughly ten...
14: ...one of the first written works in Arabic. It is written in an early form of classical [[Arabic languag... - Ice age (15810 bytes)
2: [[Image:Vostok-ice-core-petit.png|thumb|right|Variations in CO2, temperature an...
4: ..., ''ice age'' is used to refer to colder periods with extensive ice sheets over the [[North America]]n...
10: ...is Agassiz]] of the theory, and Agassiz published it in his book ''ɴude sur les glaciers'' of [[1840]...
12: ...what were being studied were the glacial periods within the past few hundred thousand years, during th...
16: ...nt sea ice extended to or very near the equator. It has been suggested that the end of this ice age w... - Literature (25676 bytes)
1: ...us, but it does not interfere with the above definition.
5: ...]], all fall within this definition of a kind of literature.
7: ...e [[Western canon|Western Canon]] forms one such literature.
9: ...orm, to the exclusion of [[inscription]]s or [[digital media]].
11: ... may also become excluded from consideration as "literature". - Americium (6956 bytes)
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40: ...adon|Rn]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>5f<sup>7</sup> 7[[s-orbital|s]]<sup>2</sup>
49: | [[Density]]
54: ...ting point]] || 1449 [[Kelvin|K]] (2149 [[Fahrenheit|?F]]) - Antimony (9093 bytes)
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26: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
34: | [[Atomic weight]] || 121.760 [[Atomic mass unit|amu]]
43: ...i>]</nowiki>4[[d-orbital|d]]<sup>10</sup> 5[[s-orbital|s]]<sup>2</sup> 5p<sup>3</sup>
57: | 903.78 [[Kelvin|K]] (1167.13 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
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