Showing posts with label history of science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history of science. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since The Wheel

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The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since The Wheel -- The Atlantic Why did it take so long to invent the wheelbarrow? Have we hit peak inno...
Monday, April 9, 2012

An App On The History Of Math

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1,000 Years Of Maths... Via An App: IBM Creates A (Very Long) iPad Timeline History Of Geeks' Favourite Subject -- Daily Mail To celebra...
Monday, January 18, 2010

The Core Of Truth Behind Sir Isaac Newton's Apple

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Sir Isaac Newton was said to have discovered gravity while sitting in his mother's garden in Lincolnshire. PA. From The Independent: Th...
Wednesday, December 2, 2009

The Royal Society Puts Historic Papers Online

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From BBC News: One of the world's oldest scientific institutions is marking the start of its 350th year by putting 60 of its most memora...
Monday, August 24, 2009

The Origin Of Computing

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Holly Lindem (photoillustration); Gene Burkhardt (styling) From Scientific American: The information age began with the realization that mac...
Monday, August 17, 2009

In Galileo’s Footsteps

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Galileo From Newsweek: For the first time in hundreds of years, the most powerful telescopes may soon come from Europe. Galileo has been get...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Idea Of Infinity Stretched Back To Third Century B.C.

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From Live Science: CHICAGO - The first mathematical use of the concept of actual infinity has been pushed back some 2,000 years via a new an...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Researchers Unlock Secrets Of 1918 Flu Pandemic

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Policemen in Seattle wearing masks made by the Red Cross, during the influenza epidemic in a National Archives photo dated December 1918. (N...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Darwin's Beagle To Sail Again

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Vessel of knowledge: The original HMS Beagle on which Charles Darwin sailed. A replica is being built to research the effects of plankton on...
Monday, October 27, 2008

Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison

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The audio historian David Giovannoni with a recently discovered phonautogram that is among the earliest sound recordings. (Image from The Ne...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Space Expectations

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THE MIND OF WERNHER VON BRAUN: In the October 18, 1952, issue of Collier's, von Braun sketched out the 190-foot- (58-meter-) tall "...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Earliest Known Human TB Found In 9,000 Year-old Skeletons

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The Skeletons submerged at the Alit-Yam site. (Credit: Image courtesy of University College London) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Oct. 1...
Monday, September 29, 2008

Tesla's Impact On Everyday Life

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Host Bre Pettis and his Tesla coil on the set of his show "History Hacker." History Reveals: Tesla Totally Awesome! -- MSNBC Circ...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Skeleton May Be Early TB Victim By LiveScience Staff

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A close-up of a skeleton dating to A.D. 302 that archaeologists say bears evidence of TB. Credit: Sarah Mitchell/University of York From Liv...
Friday, September 12, 2008

The Microchip's 50th Birthday Party

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The first integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby. Kilby won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2000 for his work. Happy 50th Birthday: Microc...