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| NEWSLETTER - SEPTEMBER 15 | |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on this day. 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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| Quotations for Today | |
| "I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today." - Isambard K. Brunel (died 15 Sep 1859) "The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay." - inventor in the quiz below, whose railway was ceremonially opened on 15 Sep 1830, the world's first intercity passenger railway operated solely by steam locomotives. | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Murray Gell-Mann, born 15 Sep 1929 is an American theoretical physicist who predicted the existance of new subatomic particles, for which he won the 1969 Nobel Prize. What did he call these particles? | |
| Jan Ernst Matzeliger, born 15 Sep 1852, was a Dutch Guianian-American inventor known for a machine that replaced hand methods of manufacture of a certain product. He received a patent for his invention on 20 Mar 1883. What was his invention? | |
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| A German aircraft engineer and designer (1898-1978) during World War 2 supplied the Luftwaffe with its foremost types of combat aircraft. In 1944 he produced the Me262 fighter, the first jet plane flown in combat. Can you name this man? | |
| William Seward Burroughs (1855-1898) was an American inventor of the first recording adding machine and pioneer of its manufacture. His company later became Burroughs Corporation (1905) and eventually Unisys. In what decade did he improve his calculating machine and add a printer? | |
| Events | |
| On 15 Sep 1998, the rings around the planet Jupiter were explained by studies of the rings made by scientists at several institutions. What origin did they suggest for the rings? | |
| On 15 Sep 1830, the Liverpool to Manchester line opened in England, built by the inventor of the famous Rocket locomotive with which he had won the Rainhill trials of 1829, a competition as to who could build the fastest locomotive. Can you name this inventor? | |
| 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 September 15 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. | |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for September 14: nitric oxide; several centimetres; Ivan Pavlov; Georges Leclanché; Boston. | |
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