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| NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 5 | |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on August 5. 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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| Births | |
| Born on 5 Aug 1930, this astronaut was the first man to walk on the moon. (20 Jul 1969, Apollo 11). Can you name him? | |
| Joseph Carey Merrick (erroneously referred to as John Merrick) was a disfigured person, born in Leicester, England, on 5 Aug 1862. Merrick began to develop tumors on his face before his second birthday. His condition quickly worsened as bulbous, cauliflower-like growths grew from his head and body, and his right hand and forearm became a useless club. After a brief career as a professional "freak," dubbed the "Elephant Man," he became the best-known resident patient of London Hospital from 1886 until his death. What feature evoked the name "Elephant Man"? | |
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| Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729), inventor of the atmospheric steam engine, died in London. His invention of c.1711 came into use to pump water. It had a piston connected to one end of a large crossbeam; the other end was connected to a very heavy pump piston. On each stroke, water chilled and condensed the steam in the cylinder, dropping the piston thus moving the crossbeam and operating the pump. This was wasteful of fuel needed to reheat the cylinder for the next stroke. Although it was slow and inefficient, Newcomen's engine was relied on for the first 60 years of the new steam age it began. Where in industry was this invention used? | |
| Events | |
| On 5 Aug 1962, a lunar occultation enabled Australian radio astronomers to more precisely fix the location of the previously known radio source 3C 273, in Virgo. In 1963 this became the first member of a new class of object eventually to be called quasars What does the name quasar mean ? | |
| 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 5 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 4: pencil; behaviour of chromosomes; illuminating gas; the decade including the year 1958; in memory of Alexander Graham Bell, who had died two days earlier; champagne. | |
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