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The initials on the mural corespond to the names of the inventors: | The initials on the mural corespond to the names of the inventors: | ||
EW =Eli Whitney, cotton gin | EW =Eli Whitney, cotton gin (1793) | ||
HD = Humphrey Davy, an Englishman, demonstrated a powerful electric lamp to the Royal Society in 1806 | HD = Humphrey Davy, an Englishman, demonstrated a powerful electric lamp to the Royal Society in 1806 | ||
Revision as of 21:01, 20 January 2007
<spoiler> Hint: "People and dates with lasting effect."
The initials on the mural corespond to the names of the inventors:
EW =Eli Whitney, cotton gin (1793)
HD = Humphrey Davy, an Englishman, demonstrated a powerful electric lamp to the Royal Society in 1806
JW =James Watt, improved steam engine 1763
BF = Benjamin Franklin, pointed light rod conductor
GLL = George Louis Lesage, used a single wire system to telegraph a message (1774)
LP = Louis Pasteur, french scientist who discovered the process of sterilizing milk
GS = Glenn T. Seaborg, the nuclear chemist's best-known achievement was the synthesis and isolation of the radioactive element plutonium
GM = Guglielmo Marconi, radio
AGB = Alexander Graham Bell
CM = Cyrus Hall McCormick,, inventor of the reaper
TE = Thomas Edison, Phonograph
Think JW could also be hydraulic ram invented by John Whitehurst (thanks to confusio) </spoiler>
