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 scie...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York
2012.
Cham : Springer Nature |
| Accés en línia: | Accès sur la plateforme de l'éditeur Accès sur la plateforme Istex Accès Université d'Orléans Accès INSA CVL |
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Archives Springer e-books (Licence nationale) Archives Springer e-books (Licence nationale) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • How James Watt invented the copier, forgotten inventions of our great scientists, René Schils, New York, Springer, 2012, 1 vol. (VII-170 p.), 978-1-4614-0859-8 • How James Watt Invented the Copier, Texte imprimé, 9781461408611 |
Taula de continguts:
- 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.