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  1. James Watt (5070 bytes)
    2: <div style="float:right">[[image:James Watt small.jpg]]</div>
    3: '''James Watt''' ([[January 19]], [[1736]]&ndash;[[August 19]],...
    14: ...[[Matthew Boulton]] to manufacture his improved [[Watt steam engine]].
    22: Watt adopted the [[centrifugal governor]] to regulate ...
    24: ...am energy in heating the [[piston]] and chamber. Watt developed a separate [[condenser]] chamber which ...
  2. 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: ...rking rotative steam engine, built by Boulton and Watt in [[1785]] to grind malt in [[Samuel Whitbread (...
    11: *[[Watt steam engine]]
  3. Watt steam engine (4120 bytes)
    1: [[image:watt7783.png|frame|right|Diagram of the Watt Steam Engine in its most basic form showing the i...
    2: ...ost natural power sources such as wind and water. Watt's design became synonymous with steam engines, du...
    8: Watt's idea was to separate the [[condenser|condensati...
    10: ...d Watt repeatedly almost gave up on the project, only to be convinced to continue by the ever-cheery B...
    12: ...en engine. Since the changes were fairly limited, Watt and Boulton licensed the idea to existing Newcome...

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  1. Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
    1: ...y [[coal]]) and powered [[machine|machinery]] (mainly in [[textile]] [[manufacturing]]). The developme...
    10: ...Image:Maquina vapor Watt ETSIIM.jpg|thumb|300px|A Watt steam engine in [[Madrid]]. The development of th...
    34: ...f Arts, Manufactures and Commerce]] or, more commonly, [[Society of Arts]] published an illustrated vo...
    65: ...g needed, and thus goods in these materials made only a small proportion of the output.
    83: ... the scientific reasons for the improvement were only discovered later. His family followed in his foo...
  2. Actinium (7046 bytes)
    82: | 12 [[watt per metre-kelvin|W/(m*K)]]
    133: ...n the dark with an eerie blue light. It is found only in traces in uranium ores as 227-Ac, an [[alpha ...
    146: ...nd in trace amounts in uranium ore, but more commonly is made in milligram amounts by the neutron irra...
    161: *[http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/89.html Los Alamos National Laborato...
  3. James Watt (5070 bytes)
    2: <div style="float:right">[[image:James Watt small.jpg]]</div>
    3: '''James Watt''' ([[January 19]], [[1736]]&ndash;[[August 19]],...
    14: ...[[Matthew Boulton]] to manufacture his improved [[Watt steam engine]].
    22: Watt adopted the [[centrifugal governor]] to regulate ...
    24: ...am energy in heating the [[piston]] and chamber. Watt developed a separate [[condenser]] chamber which ...
  4. Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
    110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
    143: * [[1769]]: [[Steam engine]]: [[James Watt]]
    311: ...ormer]]: [[William Stanley (physicist)|William Stanley]]
    321: ... [[1888]]: [[Pneumatic tube tire]]: [[John Boyd Dunlop]]
    394: * [[1914]]: [[Tank]], military: [[Ernest Dunlop Swinton]]
  5. Sun (20830 bytes)
    68: | 3.827&times;10<sup>26</sup> [[watt|W]]
    135: [[Image:SunLayers.png|thumb|left|220px|Structure of the Sun]]
    144: ...million tonnes per second or 383 [[SI prefix|yottawatts]] (9.15&times;10<sup>16</sup> tons of [[Trinitro...
    147: The core is the only part of the Sun where an appreciable amount of h...
    162: ...space and its energy escapes the Sun entirely. Sunlight has a [[black-body]] spectrum that is charact...
  6. List of inventors (14020 bytes)
    113: *[[Robert Heinlein]], (1907-1988), waterbed
    225: *[[Robert Watson-Watt]], (1892-1973) &mdash; microwave [[radar]]
    226: *[[James Watt]], (1736-1819), [[Scotland]] &mdash; practical [[...
  7. Pioneer 11 (5118 bytes)
    5: ...ectric generator]]s (RTGs), which generated 144 [[Watt|W]] at Jupiter, but had decreased to 100 W by the...
    7: ...]]s with overlapping fields of view to detect [[sunlight]] reflected from passing [[meteoroid]]s, seal...
  8. Morse code (33777 bytes)
    2: ...) [[amateur radio]] operators. Morse code is the only digital [[modulation]] mode designed to be easil...
    19: ...nes &quot;dashes&quot;, and the letters most commonly used in the English language were assigned the s...
    38: ... reserved for transmission of Morse code signals only.
    40: Since Morse relies on only an ([[On-off keying|on-off keyed]]) radio signal...
    42: ...d by trained operators even though the signal is only faintly readable. This level of "penetration" is...
  9. Lightning (33113 bytes)
    35: ...m several different objects simultaneously, with only one connecting with the leader and forming the d...
    40: light a 100 [[watt]] lightbulb for 2 months), and lasts a few [[mill...
    51: dissipates enough energy to light a 100 [[watt]] lightbulb for up to 95 years,
    65: ... One special type of intracloud lightning is commonly called an anvil crawler. Discharges of electric...
    71: ... which is nothing more than a leader stroke with only one return stroke.
  10. Baltimore Orioles (15758 bytes)
    18: ...league teams in St. Louis - the AL Browns and the NL [[St. Louis Cardinals|Cardinals]] - eventually fo...
    20: During the war, the Browns won their only St. Louis based American League pennant in [[194...
    150: *[[Steve Finley]]
    210: *[[Eddie Watt]]
  11. Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
    23: ...deavoured to produce a telephone which would not only send musical notes, but articulate speech. With ...
    25: ... range of Bell's inventive genius is represented only in part by the eighteen patents granted in his n...
    39: ...otice of a patent application) of a similar kind only 2 hours after Bell had filed for his patent.
    55: ...[decibel]] (dB), equal to 0.1 B, became more commonly used.
    62: ...art. The sender consisted of a mirror directing sunlight onto the mouthpiece, where the light beam was...
  12. Windmill (7108 bytes)
    42: *[http://www.molendatabase.nl/index_en.php Mill database with over 15000 mills ...
    62: ... [http://homepages.enterprise.net/hugh0piggott/download/ Small wind systems for battery charging]
    65: ...ed by The Centre for Alternative Technology. Machynlleth, Powys. Wales SY20 9AZ. Telephone: (01654) 70...
  13. Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
    31: ... of [[Chicago Cubs]] [[baseball]] games, getting only the bare outlines of the game from a ticker and ...
    40: ...rn four months prematurely in [[1947]] and lived only one day. They divorced in [[1948]]. Reagan remar...
    79: ... greedy and unconcerned with public safety. Not only did this set limits for public employee unions, ...
    85: ...riggs Initiative, In [[1984]] he had the first openly gay couple spend the night in the White House an...
    110: ...the administration supported both nations, but mainly sided with [[Iraq]], believing that Iraqi Presid...
  14. History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
    6: ... [[England]] in the [[1820s]]. They remained the only practical overland mechanized transport for well...
    11: [[James Watt]], a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer, w...
    29: ...e Counties, and the [[Inland Empire (California)|Inland Empire]]. There were similar systems in Europ...
  15. Steamboat (11603 bytes)
    17: ...of Lancaster, [[Pennsylvania]], having learned of Watt's engine on a visit to England, made his own engi...
    25: ...es]] he ordered a [[Watt steam engine|Boulton and Watt steam engine]], and on return built the ''North R...
    37: ... years a steamer service was in operation on the inland [[Loch Lomond]], a forerunner of the lake stea...
    60: ...ld.html Cruising The World TV Show (RTP-TV 2001) Online video showing trip down Mississippi on the Del...
  16. Quran (41479 bytes)
    2: ...ated]] as '''Quran''', '''Koran''', and less commonly '''Alcoran''') is the [[Sacred text|holy book]] ...
    14: ...hers say that they were created after Muhammad. Only five [[pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions]] survive...
    18: ...tion is apparent only to those who speak Arabic, only the original Arabic text is considered the ''rea...
    72: ...n and Jewish texts have been corrupted, and that only the Qur'an
    123: ... controversial at the time, as it challenged not only Muslim orthodoxy, but the prevailing attitudes a...
  17. Ice age (15810 bytes)
    4: ...ion we are still in an ice age (because the [[Greenland]] and [[Antarctic]] ice sheets still exist). M...
    22: ...utions through time. Due to the positions of Greenland, Antarctica, and the northern portions of Euro...
    41: ... calculated to vary by as much as 25% (from 400 [[watt|W]]/m<sup>2</sup> to 500 W/m<sup>2</sup>, see gra...
    48: ...rth has entered a mode of climate behavior where only the 2nd or 3rd cycle triggers an ice age. This ...
  18. Literature (25676 bytes)
    5: ...zation|historical periods]]. Popular belief commonly holds that the literature of a [[nation]], for e...
    9: ...as well as letters. To others, a literature must only include examples of text composed of letters, or...
    54: ...y the aesthetic richness typical of poetry using only prose
    62: ...]]s and the modern [[psychological novel]]. In mainland Europe, the [[Spain|Spaniard]] [[Miguel de Cer...
    66: See [[Ian Watt]]'s ''The Rise of the Novel''. [This definition n...
  19. Americium (6956 bytes)
    85: | 10 [[watt per metre-kelvin|W/(m*K)]]
    135: *[http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/95.html Los Alamos National Laborato...
  20. Antimony (9093 bytes)
    82: | 24.3 [[watt per metre-kelvin|W/(m*K)]]
    165: *[http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/51.html Los Alamos National Laborato...

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