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- List of inventors (14020 bytes)
151: *[[Elijah McCoy]] — son of former slaves, patented many [[lubrication]] devices
164: *[[Isaac Newton]], [[England]],(1642-1727) — reflecting tel...
173: *[[Slavoljub Eduard Penkala]], (1871-1922), [[Croatia]]...
186: ...]], [[United States|USA]] — automatic bread-slicing machine
206: ...ication]], [[robot]]ics, [[logic gate]]s, the [[Tesla turbine|bladeless turbine]], radio and [[VTOL|V... - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: Born in [[Freshwater]] on the [[Isle of Wight]], Hooke received his early education a...
18: == Hooke and Newton ==
20: ...s split white [[light]] rather than modifying it. Newton expressed fury that Hooke seemed unable to grasp ...
22: ...e mathematical ability to formally prove it. When Newton published his ''[[Principia Mathematica]]'' in [[...
24: ...'', appeared originally in a letter to Hooke, and Newton presumably intended it as a sarcastic remark dire... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...observations, the first [[Newton's laws of motion#Newton's First Law: Law of Inertia|law of motion]], and ...
30: Galileo observed the [[Milky Way]], previously believed to be nebulous, and found it to be a mu...
35: ...mechanics]] developed by [[Isaac Newton|Sir Isaac Newton]]. He was a pioneer, at least in the European tra...
37: ...e thing: falling or rolling objects (rolling is a slower version of falling) are [[acceleration|accele...
39: ...upon them. This principle was incorporated into [[Newton's laws of motion]] (1st law). - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...hey both discovered calculus nearly contemporaneously, their work was not a collaboration.
4: ...ution]] and the advancement of [[heliocentrism]]. Newton is also credited with providing mathematical subs...
6: Newton also developed a [[Newton's law of cooling|law of cooling]], describing the...
10: {{IsaacNewtonSegments}}
12: ... life. For more in-depth information, see [[Isaac Newton's early life and achievements]].'' - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
124: ...own]] these discrepancies were an artifact of the slightly incorrect value then known for the mass of ...
126: ...ervatory and its director, [[Vesto Melvin Slipher|Slipher]], who, in the words of Tombaugh, was "urged...
128: ...as officially adopted and an announcement made by Slipher on [[May 1]], [[1930]].
136: ...anetary motion#Kepler's understanding of the laws|Newton's formulation of Kepler's third law]]. Meanwhile...
140: ... behind their gravity start to pull on each other slightly, resulting in an interaction between their ... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
15: ...The [[United States]] takes possession of [[Wake Island]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]].
18: ...$25 million for the [[U.S. Virgin Islands|Virgin Islands]].
19: ...nal character | character]] created by [[Elzie Crisler Segar]], first appeared in a [[newspaper]] [[co...
70: *1926 - [[Newton N. Minow]], journalist
142: * [[2004]] - [[Czeslaw Niemen]], Polish musician (b. [[1939]]) - Sundial (16148 bytes)
26: ...[equation of time]], because the Earth's orbit is slightly elliptical and its axis is tilted relative ...
95: ...g or evening. Usually, the hole was mounted in a sliding lockable piece of metal, which was adjusted ...
110: A bar, slot or stretched wire parallel to the earth's axis ...
116: ...pire|Mogul]] Caliph in Jaipur, India to keep the Islamic religious calendar.
130: ...he [[equation of time]]. This compensates for the slight eccentricity in the Earth's orbit that causes... - Mathematics (24164 bytes)
15: ...ge. Some notable examples of this happening are [[Newton]] inventing [[calculus]] and [[Feynman]] inventin...
142: * [[Napier's bones]], [[Slide Rule]]
159: ...way (that is, long papers not supported by previously published theory). The relationship to generally...
175: *[https://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/Math/Math_Worksheets/Addition/index.html Addi...
176: *[http://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/Math/Math_Worksheets/Algebra/index.html Algeb... - Pressure (9004 bytes)
41:
68: ...), grams-force, tonnes-force (metric tons-force), newtons and [[dyne]]s per square centimetre - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
18: ...llegiate Church of the Holy Cross in [[Wroclaw|Breslau (Wrocław)]], [[Silesia]], which he held fo...
44: ...ut 1000 years. The work of the [[14th century]] Muslim astronomer [[Ibn al-Shatir]] contains results s...
51: ...he precession of the [[equinox]]es correctly by a slow change in the position of the Earth's rotationa...
85: ...es Darwin]]'s [[Evolutionism]], or [[Isaac Newton|Newton]]'s [[physics]] could have a similar influence on...
95: ...stulating that human rationality was the real legislator of observed phenomena. More recent philosophe... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
2: ...Blake.jpg|thumb|right|225px|[[William Blake]]'s ''Newton'' as a divine geometer (1795)]]
14: ...his idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton through to Jefferson.
16: ...hilosophy]] of [[Sir Isaac Newton]]. The ideas of Newton, which combined the mathematics of [[axiom]]atic ...
18: But Newton was not alone in the systematic revolution in thi...
20: ... the "Enlightenment," the precipitating figure of Newton offers a specific example of the importance of th... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
82: *[[Jaroslav Heyrovsk?1890-1967), Czech chemist
130: *[[Isaac Newton]], (1642-1727), scientist
182: *[[Miha Tisler]], (born 1926), chemist. - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
16: ...s development of the theory of relativity to this slowness, saying that by pondering space and time la...
24: ...ileva Marić]] (an acquaintance of [[Nikola Tesla]]) started initially as a medical student at the...
59: ...server. This was impossible under [[Isaac Newton|Newtonian]] [[classical mechanics]].
95: ...tivity, gravity is no longer a force (as it is in Newton's law of gravity) but is a consequence of the cur...
149: He died in his sleep at a hospital in [[Princeton, New Jersey]], on... - Archimedes (13735 bytes)
1: ...athematicians, along with possibly [[Isaac Newton|Newton]], [[Carl Friedrich Gauss|Gauss]], and [[Leonhard...
24: ...] of fluids and the law of [[buoyancy]]. (He famously discovered the latter when he was asked to deter...
28: ...ctually) and survived only in Latin or Arabic translations. As a result, his ''[[how Archimedes used i... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
50: ... the motion of celestial bodies. His work was translated into Latin in the [[12th century]].
66: ...ical basis, [[celestial mechanics]] was invented. Newton also found out that the white light from the sun ... - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
31: ... to run his successful campaign for the state legislature. Polk's oratory became popular, earning him ...
39: ...bernatorial election, defeating fellow Democrat [[Newton Cannon]] by about 2,500 votes. Though he revitali...
42: ...ecisive, but on the ninth, the convention unanimously nominated Polk, who had by then obtained Van Bur...
50: ...as the [[latitude|parallel]] 54?40'. His campaign slogan became "[[Fifty-Four Forty or Fight]]."
65: ... whole territory. Though he had campaigned on the slogan "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight," Polk was not pre... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
44: ...y, many pirates ate poorly, did not become fabulously wealthy, and died young.
50: ... spirits, and they were known to free slaves from slave ships and welcome them into the pirate fold.
56: ...sels. Modern pirates prey on cargo ships who must slow their speed to navigate narrow straits, making...
86: ...ked and destroyed the pirate stronghold nests on islands throughout the Mediterranean Sea.
92: * [[Saint Patrick]] was captured and enslaved by Irish pirates. - March 20 (10075 bytes)
32: ...st woman to win the 1,135-mile [[Iditarod]] [[dog sled]] race.
52: *[[1856]] - [[Frederick Winslow Taylor]], inventor and efficiency expert (d. [[...
58: ...- [[Ruby Muhammad]], American matriarch of Black Islam
65: *[[1915]] - [[Sviatoslav Richter]], Ukrainian pianist (d. [[1997]])
107: *[[1727]] - Sir [[Isaac Newton]], English physicist, (b. [[1642]]) - Sacramento, California (21190 bytes)
46: ...n [[1849]], which was recognized by the state legislature in [[1850]]. Sacramento is the oldest incorp...
50: ...ent home of the state capital in [[1854]]. Previously, the capital was located in [[San Jos鬠Californ...
58: ...es many boaters, who can make day trips to nearby sloughs or go all along the Delta to the [[San Franc...
78: ... Sacramento Knights of the [[CISL]] and later [[WISL]]. The [[Sacramento Solons]], a [[Pacific Coast L...
113: ..., 0.95% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 10.96% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other ra... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
49: ...topped to rest his horse at the foot of the north slopes of the White Tank Mountains. He looked down a...
59: On [[February 12]], [[1871]], the territorial legislature created [[Maricopa County, Arizona|Maricopa ...
65: ...oner form of government. The 11th Territorial Legislature passed the Phoenix Charter Bill, incorporati...
217: ..., 0.13% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 16.40% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other ra...
283: *100.7 - KSLX - Classic Rock
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