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- ..., '''1''', 128</ref> It wasn't until [[Johann Rudolf Glauber]] in the 17th century that fulminating gold started to have uses. He used the purple fumes after In the 18th and 19th centuries, work continued on finding the chemical formula for fulminating g ...7 KB (1,107 words) - 07:20, 23 June 2024
- ...was one of the most important naval gunners in U.S. history. He was a 19th-century American scientist who helped build the framework of U.S. naval gunnery edu George Marshall was born in Rhodes, Ottoman Empire in 1781. By the early 19th century he fled Rhodes and came to the United States. His name was Americanised and ...26 KB (3,825 words) - 18:31, 18 September 2024
- In mid-19th century England, the use of letter "X" and other ones had evolved into a standardiz The [[American Society of Brewing Chemists]], in the introduction to its methods on measuring bitterness, points out s ...26 KB (3,871 words) - 06:00, 28 November 2024
- In the 19th and 20th centuries, [[Russia]] produced many notable [[List of Russian scie At the start of the 18th century the [[Reforms of Peter I of Russia|reforms of Peter the Great]] (founder of ...35 KB (4,793 words) - 01:13, 7 November 2024
- ...l industry. The first large-scale demand for hydrogen emerged in late 19th century for [[Lifting gas#Hydrogen|lighter-than-air aircraft]], and before the adve ...after the military scientist Ritter developed the first electrolyser, the chemists Schoenbein and Sir Grove independently identified and showcased the fuel ce ...19 KB (2,555 words) - 09:36, 21 February 2025
- *'''[[Andrey Bolotov]]''', major 18th-century [[agriculturist]], discovered [[dichogamy]], pioneered [[cross-pollination] *'''[[Sergei Chetverikov]]''', pioneer of [[modern synthesis (20th century)|modern evolutionary synthesis]] ...94 KB (12,502 words) - 21:09, 24 November 2024
- ...th-century English—an overview |url=https://public.oed.com/blog/nineteenth-century-english-an-overview/ |access-date=7 November 2020 |website=Oxford English D ...st=Badash |first=Lawrence |date=1972 |title=The completeness of nineteenth-century science |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/350840 | ...63 KB (9,305 words) - 21:16, 1 October 2024
- ...|Columba]] is a small, faint [[constellation]] named in the late sixteenth century. Its name is [[Latin]] for [[dove]]. It is located just south of [[Canis Ma ...aint constellation in the [[southern sky]], first defined in the late 16th century. Its name means "no feet" in Greek, and it represents a [[bird-of-paradise] ...82 KB (11,502 words) - 16:54, 15 May 2024
- ...actions. The system became the standard of France and Europe within half a century. Other measures with unity ratios<ref group="Note">ratios of 1 between mag ...ts for length, mass and time. Advances in [[electromagnetism]] in the 19th century necessitated additional units to be defined, and multiple incompatible syst ...106 KB (15,275 words) - 05:20, 9 February 2025
- [[Nuclear fission]] was discovered in December 1938 by chemists [[Otto Hahn]] and [[Fritz Strassmann]] and physicists [[Lise Meitner]] and In the last years of the 19th century, scientists frequently experimented with the [[cathode-ray tube]], which by ...100 KB (14,393 words) - 05:05, 9 February 2025
- ...ermodynamic work, the caloric theory was, around the end of the eighteenth century, replaced by the "mechanical" theory of heat, which is accepted today. === 17th century–early 18th century === ...92 KB (14,124 words) - 10:47, 10 February 2025
- ...ysics)|period]] of [[Cepheid]] [[variable stars]] at the beginning of 20th century. ...chemistry: their changing roles from alchemical times to the mid-twentieth century|last=F.|first=Rayner-Canham, Marelene|date=1998|publisher=American Chemical ...65 KB (8,935 words) - 15:53, 8 February 2025
- ...or [[panemone windmill]] first appeared in [[Greater Iran]] during the 9th century.<ref>Glick, Thomas F., Steven Livesey, and Faith Wallis. Medieval science, The 9th century mathematician [[Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi]] founded algebra and expand ...180 KB (24,048 words) - 09:26, 28 February 2025
- ...ved to Boreham Road, Warminster, where houses were built in the early 19th century.{{R|"Warminster and Westbury Journal 11 July 1903"|"Wiltshire Times 9 Augus ...rst1=Sally |date=February 2019 |title=In Defence of Britain: Women in 20th-century Military Engineering |magazine=Viewpoint |publisher=[[British Society for t ...187 KB (24,671 words) - 19:27, 23 February 2025
- ..., who made extensive use of this special case of Taylor series in the 18th century.}} ...ciences. Scientists of all disciplines use the ideas of physics, including chemists who study the structure of molecules, paleontologists who try to reconstruc ...251 KB (37,240 words) - 05:11, 19 January 2025