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| NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 24 |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on August 24. 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 |
| "In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely, by the expenditure of a like amount of work, the same amount of heat may be produced." - see quiz question below (died 24 Aug 1888) "The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium of caloric is restored, or (to express this differently) when caloric passes from the body at one temeperature to another body at a lower temperature." - Sadi Carnot (died 24 Aug 1832) "The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys orders, remembers duties that it has been taught, is pleased by affection and by marks of honour, nay more it possesses virtues rare even in man, honesty, wisdom, justice, also respect for the stars and reverence for the sun and the moon." - Pliny the Elder (died 24 Aug 79 AD) |
| QUIZ |
| Births |
| Albert Claude, Rudolf Geiger and Sir Daniel Gooch were each born on 24 Aug, though in different years. Not in the same order, they were notable for: a founder of microclimatology; laid the first successful transatlantic cables; developing the principal methods of separating and analyzing components of the living cell. Can you match each scientist to his claim to fame? |
| Deaths |
| Carl William Blegen (1887-1971) was an archaeologist who found striking evidence to substantiate and date the sack of the city described in Homer's Iliad. Can you name the city? |
| A German mathematical physicist (1822-1888) is credited with making thermodynamics a science. Can you name this man? |
| Sadi Carnot (1796-1832) was a physicist who originated a theorem which says that a maximum efficiency of heat engine can be obtained by a reversible engine, and that efficiency depends only on the temperatures of the hot and the cool sources of the engine. This theorem played an essential role for the subsequent development of thermodynamics. What was this man's nationality? |
| Events |
| On 24 Aug in 79, A.D., the long-dormant volcano erupted in Italy, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash. What is the name of this volcano? |
| On 24 Aug of a certain year, France exploded a hydrogen bomb at a South Pacific testing ground on Mururoa and became the world's fifth thermonuclear power. In what decade was this bomb test made? |
| On 24 Aug 1932, the first woman to fly non-stop across the United States, travelled from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just over 19 hours. Can you name this woman? |
| 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 August 24 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for August 23: William Henry Eccles = radio; Osborne Reynolds = hydraulics and hydrodynamics; Georges Cuvier = established the sciences of comparative anatomy and paleontology. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. Gossamer Condor. The decade of 1966. |
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