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| NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 2 | |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on August 2. 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 | |
| A U.S. scientist and innovator was born on 2 Aug 1835 who would have been known to us as the inventor of the telephone if Alexander Graham bell hadn't got to the patent office before him earlier that day, resulting in a famous legal battle. Can you name this inventor? | |
| John Tyndall, born on 2 Aug 1820, was an Irish physicist who became known to the scientific world in 1848 as the author of a substantial work on Crystals. He studied the acoustic properties of the atmosphere and the blue colour of the sky. What did he suggest the blue sky colour was due to? | |
| Deaths | |
| Louis Blériot (1872-1936) was a French aviator who was the was the first person to fly across a certain body of water on 25 Jul 1909, winning a £1,000 prize offered by the owner of the Daily Mail newspaper. What flight over water did he make? | |
| A Scottish inventor (1847-1922) had a career which was influenced by his grandfather (who published The Practical Elocutionist and Stammering and Other Impediments of Speech), his father (whose interest was the mechanics and methods of vocal communication) and his mother (who was deaf). This background set his course in developing the transmission of voice over wires. Can you name this man? | |
| Events | |
| On 2 Aug 1870, Tower Subway, the first tube railway in the world, was opened under the River Thames in London, England. Engineer James Henry Greathead used a tunnelling shield he modified from Barlow's design to bore the 6-ft diameter tunnel near the Tower of London. A 12-seat carriage shuttled from end to end. It was not successful due to low use and frequent breakdowns, and the railway closed within three months. How was the carriage powered? | |
| 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 2 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 1: isotopic tracer techniques; Maria Mitchell; Hitler, offended by a Nobel Peace Prize to a person in a Nazi concentration camp, required all Germans to decline any Nobel award; Oscar Hammerstein; metre; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Jeep. | |
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