Science History
- Alfred Russel Wallace And The Inselaffen
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Article - Robert H Olley - May 16 2013 - 8:50am
- Wilhelm Sinsteden- Inventor Of The Lead-Acid Battery
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Most people, including many scientists and electrical engineers, have never heard of Wilhelm Josef Sinsteden. He invented the lead-acid battery and published his findings in 1854. In 1860 an improved construction by Gaston Raimond Planté was the first co ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 17 2013 - 6:29pm
- NSA Global Data Gathering (Old News)
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News (?), Top-Secret (?), Latest revelation (?) Strange, the EU was aware of the NSA (spying) global gathering of electronic data since 2001. Sorry folks, this is not news. I wrote about this several years ago in this forum under the title: Quantum Phys ...
Blog Post - Jim Myres - Jun 7 2013 - 10:22am
- Batteries électriques- By A. Volta
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Batteries électriques- by Alexander Volta In 1800 the Royal Society published Alexander Volta's description of how he built his batteries. It is not widely known that Volta invented both the 'wet' and the 'dry' battery. Most writ ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 23 2013 - 5:24pm
- Electric Batteries- By A. Volta
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Electric Batteries- by A. Volta In this article I present my translation of Alessandro (Alexander) Volta's original French paper, which I published as- Batteries électriques- By A. Volta ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 23 2013 - 5:31pm
- Bruno Was A Martyr For Magic, Not Science
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The contrarian in me forces me to argue against sides I would ordinarily agree with when the argument is made from a flawed premise; California's Proposition 37 got a thumbs down from me because there's no reason a terrifically unhealthy Whole Fo ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 27 2013 - 3:53pm
- When A New Technology Saved The French Wine Industry
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Amy Harmon's excellent, recent article in the New York Time s describes how the Florida orange juice industry may soon be wiped-out because of a new bacterial disease spread by an introduced insect. It looks like there could be a technology-fix for ...
Article - Steve Savage - Aug 23 2013 - 9:21am
- Galileo’s Own Wine Jug?
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A few days ago, I was watching an episode of the Antiques Roadshow. People were bringing their treasured objects for expert examination to the grounds of a stately house in St Ives, Cambridgeshire. The items included an early pocket calculator by Sinclai ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Aug 24 2013 - 10:04am
- Laura Bassi: The First Female Professional Scientist That Few People Know Of
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Technology may not seem like more of a woman's world than science, but in some ways it is- Ada Lovelace is revered by computer programmers and is well-known in popular culture, while Laura Bassi, the first women to forge a professional scientific car ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2013 - 9:50am
- That's Not The Brain Of Carl Friedrich Gauss
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In 1855, a specimen of the brain of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss was taken and preserved. But the over 150-year-old slice of his brain, which scientists had long been examining in the belief that it was Gauss's brain, turns out to not be his br ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2013 - 1:45pm