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GS = Glenn T. Seaborg, the nuclear chemist's best-known achievement was the synthesis and isolation of the radioactive element plutonium (1941) | GS = Glenn T. Seaborg, the nuclear chemist's best-known achievement was the synthesis and isolation of the radioactive element plutonium (1941) | ||
GM = Guglielmo Marconi, radio | GM = Guglielmo Marconi, radio (1897) | ||
AGB = Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone | AGB = Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone | ||
Revision as of 23:40, 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 (1862)
GS = Glenn T. Seaborg, the nuclear chemist's best-known achievement was the synthesis and isolation of the radioactive element plutonium (1941)
GM = Guglielmo Marconi, radio (1897)
AGB = Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone
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>
