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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: Watt adopted the [[centrifugal governor]] to regulate ...
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: ...rking rotative steam engine, built by Boulton and Watt in [[1785]] to grind malt in [[Samuel Whitbread (...
11: *[[Watt steam engine]] - 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: ... Potter, whose job it was to turn these valves, connected the valve handles by cords to the beam ED in...
10: ...ent of a test engine. This proved frustrating and Watt repeatedly almost gave up on the project, only to...
12: ...en engine. Since the changes were fairly limited, Watt and Boulton licensed the idea to existing Newcome...
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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
10: ...Image:Maquina vapor Watt ETSIIM.jpg|thumb|300px|A Watt steam engine in [[Madrid]]. The development of th...
26: ==Innovations==
27: ... technologies were introduced. Another important innovation was the organization of human labor in fac...
29: ===Transmission of innovation===
30: Knowledge of new innovation was spread by several means. Workers who w... - Actinium (7046 bytes)
82: | 12 [[watt per metre-kelvin|W/(m*K)]] - 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: Watt adopted the [[centrifugal governor]] to regulate ...
24: ...am energy in heating the [[piston]] and chamber. Watt developed a separate [[condenser]] chamber which ... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
17: ===[[9th millennium BC]]===
21: ===[[8th millennium BC]]===
24: ===[[7th millennium BC]]===
29: ===[[6th millennium BC]]===
33: ===[[4th millennium BC]]=== - Sun (20830 bytes)
68: | 3.827×10<sup>26</sup> [[watt|W]]
122: ...ns". Planet [[Earth]] [[orbit]]s the Sun, as do innumerable other bodies including other [[planet]]s,...
144: ...million tonnes per second or 383 [[SI prefix|yottawatts]] (9.15×10<sup>16</sup> tons of [[Trinitro...
173: ...mosphere is visible as a colored flash at the beginning and end of [[solar eclipse|total eclipses of t...
187: ...]s and [[solar prominence]]s. (See [[magnetic reconnection]]) The solar activity cycle includes old ma... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
41: ...England — [[lawnmower]] and [[adjustable spanner]]
66: *[[W.K. Dickson|William Kennedy Laurie Dickson]], motion picture camera
105: *[[Johann Gutenberg]], (circa 1390s-1468), [[Germany]] &mda...
130: ...z Klatte]] — invented vinyl chloride, forerunner to [[polyvinyl chloride]] - Pioneer 11 (5118 bytes)
5: ...ectric generator]]s (RTGs), which generated 144 [[Watt|W]] at Jupiter, but had decreased to 100 W by the...
24: * [[Unmanned space missions]] - Morse code (33777 bytes)
2: ...te for sending automated digital data in voice channels.
17: ... devise an alternate method of communication. Beginning in 1837, [[William Cooke]] and [[Charles Wheat...
19: ... tape into text messages. Initially, Morse had planned to only transmit numerals, and use a dictionary...
21: ...on learned to directly read the clicks as the beginning and end of dots and dashes, meaning that it wa...
31: ... it receives an SMS text message. These kinds of innovations could lead to a Morse code revival. There... - Lightning (33113 bytes)
6: ... The electricity passing through the discharge channels rapidly heats and expands the air, producing l...
24: ...forced to flow in opposite directions (stepped channels called [[Step leader|step leaders]]). The con...
26: ...led a [[positive streamer]], and can eventually connect to the descending discharge from the cloud.
33: ...en the discharge rapidly superheats the leader channel, causing a [[shock wave]] to be sent out.
35: ...path. Photographs have been taken on which non-connected streamers are visible [http://www.erh.noaa.g... - Baltimore Orioles (15758 bytes)
12: :'''American League pennants won''' (7): [[1944 in sports|1944]], 1966, [[...
20: ... won their only St. Louis based American League pennant in [[1944]], but they faced their local rivals...
24: ...baseball)|John McGraw]], and won three straight pennants. That team had started as a charter member of...
32: In 1966, the Orioles traded with the [[Cincinnati Reds]] and acquired slugging outfielder [[Fran...
34: ...(1966, [[1970]], and 1983), six American League pennants, and five of the first six American League Ea... - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
4: ...[[Scientist]], [[inventor]] of the telephone and innovations in aviation and hydrofoil technology |
27: ...nferred on him the decoration of the [[L駩on d'honneur]] (Legion of Honor), the [[Acad魩e fran硩se]...
29: ...[[1922]] and is buried alongside his wife atop Beinn Bhreagh Mountain overlooking [[Bras d'Or Lake]]. ...
45: [[Johann Philipp Reis|Philipp Reis]], a German self-taught...
70: ... were four young men, American [[Glenn Curtiss|Glenn H. Curtiss]], a motorcycle manufacturer who would... - Windmill (7108 bytes)
12: ...same purpose in some areas of the world where a connection to electric power lines is not a realistic ...
16: ...not blowing. Some pump jacks provided a sealed connection, allowing water to be forced out under pres...
65: ...ut: 10 mi/h: 1 Watt; 20 mi/h: 6 Watt; 30 mi/h: 21 Watt. Propeller design: ''Scrapyard Windmill Realities... - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
31: ...out the game. Once in [[1934]], during the ninth inning of a Cubs-[[St. Louis Cardinals]] game, the wi...
64: ...gan won't tell you this, I just did."[http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/chicago/facts/fa...
75: ...y, I forgot to duck" to his wife.[http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/05/reagan.obit/] Reagan ...
81: ... against individual liberty (as [[Nobel prize]] winning economist [[Milton Friedman]] suggests) then R...
85: ...ghter. (It should be noted that AIDS was just beginning to be understood at this time. The term ''AIDS... - History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
9: ... [[1700s]], the wooden tracks and wheels were beginning to be replaced by iron. In the mid century sys...
11: [[James Watt]], a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer, w...
14: ...His locomotive had no name, and was used at the Pennydarren ironworks in [[Wales]]. It was not financi...
22: ... was needed for [[industrialization]]. In the beginning, [[Canal|canals]] were in competition with the...
24: ...olitan Line|Metropolitan Railway]] was built to connect several of these separate railway terminals, a... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
17: ...of Lancaster, [[Pennsylvania]], having learned of Watt's engine on a visit to England, made his own engi...
21: ...d a patent from the State of [[Virginia]]. In [[Pennsylvania]] [[John Fitch]], an acquaintance of Will...
25: ...es]] he ordered a [[Watt steam engine|Boulton and Watt steam engine]], and on return built the ''North R...
30: ... is preserved as a [[museum ship]] at [[Winona, Minnesota]]. For modern craft operated on rivers, see ...
37: ... operation on the inland [[Loch Lomond]], a forerunner of the lake steamers that still grace the [[Swi... - Quran (41479 bytes)
30: ...tween successive verses; for instance, at the beginning of surat [[al-Fajr]]:
56: == The beginnings of the suras ==
66: ... that ye say, ..." (4:43), a prohibition of drunkenness but not alcohol. Later verses expanded prohibi...
101: ... pronounced. It is believed that this process of annotation began around 700 CE, soon after Uthman's c...
123: ...is extremely unreliable, as it projects current Sunni orthodoxy onto the past -- much as if [[New Test... - Ice age (15810 bytes)
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...
89: ...riculture]], and it is possible that there is a connection between the two events.
93: ... Other rivers were dammed and diverted to new channels, such as the [[Niagara Falls|Niagara]], which ... - Literature (25676 bytes)
21: ... and they may or may not utilise [[rhyme]]. One cannot readily characterise [[poetry]] precisely. Typi...
23: ...ic of Gilgamesh]]'' (dated from around [[4th millennium BC|3000 B.C.]]), parts of the [[Bible]], and t...
25: ...], the [[limerick (poetry)|limerick]], or the [[sonnet]], for example. A haiku must have seventeen syl...
53: ...not mark the distinction precisely, and perhaps cannot do so. Note the classifications:
62: ... Earlier collections of [[tale]]s, such as [[Giovanni Boccaccio|Boccaccio]]'s ''[[The Decameron|Decame... - Americium (6956 bytes)
85: | 10 [[watt per metre-kelvin|W/(m*K)]]
129: ...the [[University of Chicago]] (now known as [[Argonne National Laboratory]]). The team created the [[i... - Antimony (9093 bytes)
82: | 24.3 [[watt per metre-kelvin|W/(m*K)]]
148: ... [[1450]], and was known to be a metal by the beginning of the [[17th century]]. The origin of the na...
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