Newsletter for Saturday 18 August

 

 

TODAY IN SCIENCE HISTORY

NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 18

Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on August 18. 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.

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QUIZ

Births

Bern Dibner, born 18 Aug 1897, was a Ukrainian-American engineer and historian of science. Dibner worked as an engineer during the electrification of a certain island country. Realizing the need for improved methods of connecting electrical conductors, in 1924, he founded the Burndy Engineering Company. Later, he began collecting books and everything he could find that was related to the history of science. This became a second career as a scholar. In what country was he working as an engineer for its electrification?

Pierre-Émile Martin, born 18 Aug 1824, was a French engineer who co-invented the open-hearth process, which produced most of the world's steel until the development of the basic oxygen process. With whom did he coinvent this process, which is known by both their names?

Deaths

Richard Synge (1914-1994) was a British biochemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with A.J.P. Martin for their development of partition chromatography What simplest form of chromatography was developed?

André-Jacques Garnerin (1769-1823) was a French aeronaut, the first person to use a parachute regularly and successfully. He perfected the parachute and made jumps from greater altitudes than had been possible before. On 22 Oct of a certain year, Garnerin made his first jump above the Parc Monceau in Paris. From what height did he make his first parachute jump?

Events

On 18 Aug of a certain year, rainmaking experiments were conducted near Midland, Texas by the U.S. government. In what decade did this take place?

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 18 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 17: non-smear ("stays on you not on him") kissproof lipstick that stayed on the lips longer than any other product then available; malignant disease of lymph tissue; first plane to break the sound barrier; the decade including 1896; Phobos.

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