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499: Aryabhata creates a particularly accurate eclipse chart. As an example of its accuracy, 18th century scientist Guillaume Le Gentil , during a visit to Pondicherry, India, found the Indian computations (based on Aryabhata's computational paradigm) of the duration of the lunar eclipse of 30 August 1765 to be short by 41 seconds, whereas his ...
Heron (c. 10–70), Roman Egypt – usually credited with invention of the aeolipile, although it may have been described a century earlier; John Herschel (1792–1871), UK – photographic fixer (hypo), actinometer; Harry Houdini (1874–1926) U.S. – flight time illusion; Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), Germany – radio telegraphy ...
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. [ a ] The dates in this article make frequent use of the units mya and kya , which refer to millions and thousands of years ago, respectively.
Science and invention in Birmingham; Scientific achievements, inventions, and discoveries of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; List of Scottish inventions and discoveries; List of Serbian inventions and discoveries; List of Serbian inventors and discoverers; List of Singaporean inventions and discoveries
English scientist Stephen Gray made the distinction between insulators and conductors. 1745: German physicist Ewald Georg von Kleist and Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek invented Leyden jars. 1752: American scientist Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning was electrical by flying a kite and explained how Leyden jars work. 1780
The team of scientists have designed a hybrid material to simulate capturing carbon dioxide in-situ (onsite) and converting it into clean hydrogen from non-fuel grade bioethanol. [ 311 ] Spray-drying buffalo milk – The collective consensus of dairy experts worldwide was that buffalo milk could not be spray-dried due to its high fat content.
A timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) encompasses the innovative advancements of the United States within a historical context, dating from the Progressive Era to the end of World War II, which have been achieved by inventors who are either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States.
1933 – Ernst Ruska: Invention of the electron microscope; 1935 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: Chandrasekhar limit for black hole collapse; 1937 - Majorana particle, hypothesized as a fermion that is its own antiparticle. 1937 – Muon discovered by Carl David Anderson and Seth Neddermeyer; 1938 – Pyotr Kapitsa: Superfluidity discovered