How James Watt invented the copier : forgotten inventions of our great scientists / Rene Schils ; translated by Andy Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schils, René.

Contributor:

Brown, Andy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inventions.

Inventors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2012.

Other Title:

Forgotten inventions of our great scientists

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Features 25 different scientists and the ideas which may not have made them famous, but made history… Typically, we remember our greatest scientists from one single invention, one new formula or one incredible breakthrough. This narrow perspective does not give justice to the versatility of many scientists who also earned a reputation in other areas of science. James Watt, for instance, is known for inventing the steam engine, yet most people do not know that he also invented the copier. Alexander Graham Bell of course invented the telephone, but only few know that he invented artificial breathing equipment, a prototype of the ‘iron lung’. Edmond Halley, whose name is associated with the comet that visits Earth every 75 years, produced the first mortality tables, used for life insurances. This entertaining book is aimed at anyone who enjoys reading about inventions and discoveries by the most creative minds. Detailed illustrations of the forgotten designs and ideas enrich the work throughout.

Contents:

Johannes Kepler: Keplers laws – Snow crystals

Robert Hooke: Hooke’s law – Surveyor and architect

Edmond Halley: Comet – Mortality tables

Daniel Bernoulli: Bernoulli’s principle – Utility function

Benjamin Franklin: Electricity – Gulfstream

Joseph Priestley: Oxygen – Carbonated water

James Watt: Steam engine – Copier

Edward Jenner: Pox vaccine – Cuckoo’s nest

John Dalton: Atomic theory – Colour blindness

Thomas Young: Light – Rosetta Stone

Justus von Liebig: Fertilizer – Stock

Charles Darwin: Evolution – Earthworms

William Thomson: Absolute temperature – Transatlantic cable

James Clerk Maxwell : Maxwell equations – Colour photo

Alexander Graham Bell: Telephone – Artificial resuscitation

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz: Electron theory – Enclosing dyke

Svante Arrhenius: Ionic theory – Global warming

Pierre Curie: Radioactivity – Piezo-electricity

Walther Nernst : Thermodynamics – Neo-Bechstein piano

Albert Einstein: Relativity – Refrigerator

Harlow Shapley: Center of the Milky Way – Ants

Erwin Schrödinger: Wave equation – What is life?

Enrico Fermi: Nuclear reaction – Fermi’s paradox

Rosalind Franklin: DNA – Carbon

George Gamow: Big Bang – Genetic code.

Notes:

"Translation from Dutch language edition: Einsteins koelkast : en andere vergeten ontdekkingen van grote wetenschappers ... 2008."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-44517-4

9786613445179

1-4614-0860-1

OCLC:

768998491