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| NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 26 |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on August 26. 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 |
| "We will build a machine that will fly." - pioneer inventor in quiz below (born 26 Aug 1740) "This pure species of air (oxygen) has the property of combining with the blood ... this combination produces its red colour." - French scientist in the quiz below (born 26 Aug 1743) "I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ'd, taking some Blood out of my own hand, that it consists of small round globuls driven through a Crystalline humidity or water." - Dutch scientist in quiz below (died 26 Aug 1723) |
| QUIZ |
| Births |
| Albert Bruce Sabin, born 26 Aug 1906 was a Polish-American physician and microbiologist best known for developing an oral vaccine (1955), which was administered to millions of children in Europe, Africa, and the Americas beginning in the late 1950s. For what disease was his vaccine developed? |
| Joseph-Michel, one of two brothers who were pioneers in ballooning, was born 26 Aug 1740. In the span of one year after releasing their test balloon, the brothers had enabled the first manned balloon flight in the world. What is the brothers' family name? |
| A French scientist, born 26 Aug 1743, is known as the "father of modern chemistry." In 1778, he found that air consists of a mixture of two gases which he called oxygen and nitrogen. During the French Revolution, for his involvement with a private tax-collecting company, he was guillotined. Can you name this scientist? |
| Deaths |
| An aviator who was a WWI pilot (1902-1974) was the first to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Paris, on 20-21 May 1927. Can you name this man? |
| A Dutch scientist, microscopist and zoologist (1632-1723) was the first to observe bacteria and protozoa. His researches on lower animals refuted the doctrine of spontaneous generation, and his observations helped lay the foundations for the sciences of bacteriology and protozoology. Can you name this man? |
| Events |
| On 26 Aug 1895, electricity was first transmitted commercially from the first large-scale utilization of hydroelectricity in the U.S. What was the source of this water power? |
| On 26 Aug until 28 Aug of a certain year, the eruption of island volcano in the Dutch Indies produced violent explosions that destroyed two thirds of island and produced tidal waves as far away as Cape Horn, and possibly England. An estimated 36,000 died. What is the name of this volcano? |
| 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 26 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 25: Frederick Chapman Robbins = virologist; Sir Hans Adolf Krebs = Krebs cycle of the oxidation process within the cell; Theodor Kocher = thyroid gland. Antoine-Henri Becquerel. Uranus. Michael Faraday. Thousands. Decade of 1973. |
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