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#Sideshow #museumscienceindustry @msichicago The MSI closed its circus exhibit on Tuesday of last week after nearly 50 years. Several items from the circus featured at the museum are going up for auction. They include motorized dioramas
November 22, 2024 at 4:12 AM
#Napoleon #museumscienceindustry @msichicago About 1779, #SamuelCrompton succeeded in producing a mule-jenny, a machine which spun yarn suitable for use in the manufacture of muslin.[6] It was known as the muslin wheel or the Hall i'
November 26, 2024 at 5:22 AM
#Zephry #museumscienceindustry @msichicago The Illinois Zephyr is a descendant of the Kansas City Zephyr and American Royal Zephyr passenger train routes operated by the Chic
November 29, 2024 at 4:28 AM
museumscienceindustry @msichicago Pennsylvania Germans near the Conestoga River first made #Conestogawagons around 1750 to haul freight. By the 1810s, improved roads to Pittsb
November 29, 2024 at 4:02 AM
#museumscienceindustry @msichicago oday the word “#stagecoach” is applied almost exclusively to the classic, oval-shaped overland coach produced in Concord, New Hampshire. These have starred in coun
November 29, 2024 at 3:57 AM
1912 #Robertgoddard #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Robert Goddard, bundled against the cold weather of March 16, 1926, holds the launching frame of his most notable invention — the first liquid-fueled rocket.
November 29, 2024 at 3:26 AM
#Nickelodeon #museumscienceindustry @msichicago The Nickelodeon was the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures in the United
November 29, 2024 at 3:06 AM
#Chemicalfeast @msichicago #museumscienceindustry The Chemical Feast: Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on the Food and Drug Administration is a 1970 book usually associated with the
November 26, 2024 at 5:40 AM
#Stagecoach #museumscienceindustry @msichicago That day's stage ride will always live in my memory – but not for its beauty spots. Jammed like sardines on the hard seats of an old time le
November 26, 2024 at 5:31 AM
#u505submarine #museumscienceindustry @msichicago U-505 is a German Type IXC submarine built for Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was captured by the U.S. Navy on 4 June 1944.
November 26, 2024 at 5:25 AM
1884 #reaction #museumscienceindustry @msichicago The Sandmeyer reaction is a chemical reaction used to synthesize aryl halides from aryl diazonium salts using copper salts as reagents or catalysts.[1][2][3] It is an example of a radical-nucleophili
November 26, 2024 at 5:17 AM
1784 #AlexandriaWolfgang #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[a] (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic.[3] His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism,
November 26, 2024 at 5:11 AM
1692 steam #Giovannibranca #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Giovanni Branca (22 April 1571 – 24 January 1645) was an Italian engineer and architect, chiefly remembered today for what some commentators have taken to be an early steam turbine.
November 26, 2024 at 5:08 AM
130 bc #heroofAlexandria #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Hero of Alexandria (/ˈhɪəroʊ/; Greek: Ἥρων[1] ὁ Ἀλεξα
November 26, 2024 at 5:02 AM
#Reaction @msichicago #museumscienceindustry A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the chemical transformation of one set of chemical substances to another.[1]
November 26, 2024 at 4:57 AM
1783 #Jacquescharles #museumscienceindustry @msichicagoJacques Charles, in full Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles, (born November 12, 1746, Beaugency, France—died April
November 26, 2024 at 4:38 AM
#Vacuumpump 1876 #museumscienceindustry @msichicago #HeinrichGeissler invented the mercury displacement pump in 1855
November 26, 2024 at 4:32 AM
Fuel #museumscienceindustry @msichicago A #thermal column (or thermal) is a rising mass of buoyant air, a convective current in the atmosphere, that transfers heat energy verticall
November 26, 2024 at 4:23 AM
245 bc# #kinghiero2 of #Syracuse asked #Archimedes determine crown gold Archimedes pure gold should spill gold #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Hiero II (Greek: Ἱέρων Β΄; c. 308 BC – 215 BC) was the Greek tyrant of Syracuse, Magna
November 26, 2024 at 4:11 AM
#PierreCurrie Nobel prize 1895 #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Pierre Curie (/ˈkjʊəri/ KURE-ee,[1] French: [pjɛʁ kyʁi]; 15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and
November 26, 2024 at 4:05 AM
#Tangent #galvanometer #museumscienceindustry @msichicago r I = K tan θ, where K is called the Reduction Factor of the tangent galvanometer.
November 25, 2024 at 11:15 PM
#Galileo calculation motion experiment #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described
November 25, 2024 at 10:53 PM
#JeanBernard #Leonfoucault #museumscienceindustry @msichicago In 1850, he did an experiment using a rotating mirror to measure the speed of light; it was viewed as "driving the last nail in the coffin" of Newton's corpuscular theory of light when it vrth on its axis (diu
November 25, 2024 at 10:49 PM