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| NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 23 |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on August 23. 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 |
| "The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself." - Georges Cuvier (born 23 Aug 1813) " mechanical progress there is apparently no end: for as in the past so in the future, each step in any direction will remove limits and bring in past barriers which have till then blocked the way in other directions; and so what for the time may appear to be a visible or practical limit will turn out to be but a bend in the road." - Osbourne Reynolds (born 23 Aug 1842) "Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough." - R.D. Laing (died 23 Aug 1989) "Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms of living systems." - Stanford Moore (died 23 Aug 1982) |
| QUIZ |
| Births |
| William Henry Eccles, Osborne Reynolds and Georges Cuvier were each born on 23 Aug, though in different years. Not in the same order, they were notable for: established the sciences of comparative anatomy and paleontology; work in hydraulics and hydrodynamics; pioneered in the development of radio communication. Can you match each scientist to his claim to fame? |
| Deaths |
| A physicist (1736-1806) was best known for the formulation of his law, which states that the force between two electrical charges is proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. Can you name this man? |
| Events |
| On 23 Aug 1977, Bryan Allen won the Kremer Prize for the first human-powered flight as he pedalled a light aircraft for at least a mile at Schafter, California. What was the name of his aircraft? |
| On 23 Aug of a certain year, the Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of the Earth from the Moon. In what decade was this photograph taken? |
| 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 23 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 22: Dr. Denton Cooley = heart transplant; Paul Gottlieb Nipkow = TV scanning; Denis Papin = pressure cooker. Lodge's coherer = a radio-wave detector. Phrenology = the attempt to divine individual intellect and personality from an examination of skull shape. Neptune = its first complete ring. The Savannah = the world's first nuclear-powered ship. Fitch's steamboat = 3 mph. |
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