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| NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 8 | |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on August 8. 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 | |
| Sir Roger Penrose , born 8 Aug 1931, is a British mathematician and relativist who in the 1960s calculated many of the basic features of one of the objects in the universe. What are the objects he studied? | |
| Ernest Lawrence, born 8 Aug 1901, was an American physicist, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of the first particle accelerator to achieve high energies. What is the name of this kind of accelerator? | |
| Deaths | |
| Sir Frank Whittle (1907-1996) was an English aviation engineer and pilot who developed aircraft that could fly at faster speeds and higher altitudes than piston-engine propeller airplanes of the 1920s. What did he pioneer, as early as 1930? | |
| Events | |
| On 8 Aug 1876, Thomas A. Edison received a patent for another invention for reproduction, but for putting words on paper What was this invention? | |
| On 8 Aug of a certain year, the first steam locomotive in America, the Stourbridge Lion, was tested in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. In what decade did this first U.S. locomotive trial 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 8 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 7: Tsar Nicholas II and other members of the Romanov family; he found fossil remains of, he believed, the earliest member of the genus of human beings and named the species Homo habilis; Jons Jakob Berzelius; power loom for brocaded fabric, controlled by perforated control cards; the decade including the year 1994. | |
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