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| NEWSLETTER - JULY 16 |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on July 16. Some of the names are very familiar. Others will likely stump you. Tickle your curiosity with these questions, then check your answers on today's web page. |
| Quotations for Today |
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| QUIZ |
| Births |
| Giuseppe Piazzi, born 16 Jul 1746, was an Italian astronomer and author who discovered the first of a new type of heavenly body (1801). Years later, when the thousandth of this type was discovered, it was named Piazzia in his honor. What was this type of heavenly body - and what is its name? |
| John Kay, born 16 Jul 1704, was an English machinist and engineer, inventor of the flying shuttle power loom, patented 1733, which was an important step toward automatic weaving. A weaver using Kay's flying shuttle could produce much wider cloth at faster speeds than before. What is a flying shuttle? |
| Deaths |
| Josiah Spode (1755-1827) was an English potter who is generally recognised as the inventor of a new form of china. Before his invention, the English potters manufactured fine soft-paste porcelain. Spode mixed kaolin, feldspar, and bone ash to make a new paste that became standard from 1800. What is the name for this new form of china? |
| Events |
| On 16 Jul of a certain year, the first atomic bomb was exploded at Los Alamos, New Mexico. What was the year of this test? |
| On 16 Jul 1969, the crew of Apollo XI blasted off from Cape Kennedy on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.. Can you name all three members of the crew? |
| On 16 Jul 1994, the first of 21 asteroids, major fragments of a comet that had broken-up 2 years earlier, hit Jupiter, creating a 1200-mile wide fireball 600 miles high to the joy of astronomers awaiting the celestial fireworks. Can you name the comet? |
| Answers |
| When you have your answers ready to all the questions above, you'll find all the information to check them, and more, on the July 16 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for July 15: They live in oxygen-deficient environments and derive their energy by reducing C and oxidizing hydrogen, and releasing methane; schizophrenica; pearl; the decade including the year 1954. |
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