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NOTE: The icons that go with the initials are all the same except for GS and AGB which have an identical icon. | NOTE: The icons that go with the initials are all the same except for GS and AGB which have an identical icon. | ||
shouldn't GS be George Stephenson - 1814 or 1825 - since the image is of the steam locomotive? - Rainaer | |||
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Revision as of 04:18, 21 January 2007
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<spoiler> Hint: "People and dates with lasting effect."
The initials on the mural corespond to the names of the inventors:
EW = Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin 1794
HD = Humphrey Davy - Demonstrated electric lamp to the Royal Society - 1806
JW = John Whitehurst - Pulsation Engine (hydraulic pump) - 1722 other possible answer James Watt - Improved steam engine - 1763
BF = Benjamin Franklin - Pointed light rod conductor - 1752
GLL = George Louis Lesage - Used a single wire system to telegraph a message - 1774
LP = Louis pasteur - Process of sterilizing milk - 1862
GS = Glenn T. Seaborg - Synthesis and isolation of the radioactive element plutonium - 1941
GM = Guglielmo Marconi - Radio - 1901
AGB = Alexander Graham Bell - Phonophone - 1880
CM = Cyrus McCormick - Inventor the Reaper - 1809
TE = Thomas Edison - Invented phonograph - 1877
NOTE: The icons that go with the initials are all the same except for GS and AGB which have an identical icon.
shouldn't GS be George Stephenson - 1814 or 1825 - since the image is of the steam locomotive? - Rainaer </spoiler>
