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How James Watt Invented the Copier Forgotten Inventions of Our Great Scientists /
Features 25 different scientists and the ideas which may not have made them famous, but made history... Typically, we remember our greatest scientists from one single invention, one new formula or one incredible breakthrough. This narrow perspective does not give justice to the versatility of many s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2012. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Johannes Kepler: Keplers laws - Snow crystals
- Robert Hooke: Hooke's law - Surveyor and architect
- Edmond Halley: Comet - Mortality tables
- Daniel Bernoulli: Bernoulli's principle - Utility function
- Benjamin Franklin: Electricity - Gulfstream
- Joseph Priestley: Oxygen - Carbonated water
- James Watt: Steam engine - Copier
- Edward Jenner: Pox vaccine - Cuckoo's nest
- John Dalton: Atomic theory - Colour blindness
- Thomas Young: Light - Rosetta Stone
- Justus von Liebig: Fertilizer - Stock
- Charles Darwin: Evolution - Earthworms
- William Thomson: Absolute temperature - Transatlantic cable
- James Clerk Maxwell : Maxwell equations - Colour photo
- Alexander Graham Bell: Telephone - Artificial resuscitation
- Hendrik Antoon Lorentz: Electron theory - Enclosing dyke
- Svante Arrhenius: Ionic theory - Global warming
- Pierre Curie: Radioactivity - Piezo-electricity
- Walther Nernst : Thermodynamics - Neo-Bechstein piano
- Albert Einstein: Relativity - Refrigerator
- Harlow Shapley: Center of the Milky Way - Ants
- Erwin Schrödinger: Wave equation - What is life?
- Enrico Fermi: Nuclear reaction - Fermi's paradox
- Rosalind Franklin: DNA - Carbon
- George Gamow: Big Bang - Genetic code.