12 March Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

Use in U.S. of steam engine
1755 -  A steam engine was first reported used in America, at a copper mine in New Barbados Neck (now North Arlington), NJ. It was imported from England by Josiah Hornblower and was used to pumpwater from the mine.

Coca-Cola
In 1894, the first bottles of Coca-Cola were sold. Coca-Cola was invented by Dr. John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist who created the formula in a three legged brass kettle  on 8 May 1886.

Camera rocket patent
In 1907, a U.S. patent for a camera-carrying rocket parachute landing device was issued to Alfred Maul, an engineer of Dresden, Germany, with the title “Rocket Apparatus” (No. 847,198).

WorldWideWeb (WWW)
1989
Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal titled “Information Management: A Proposal,”  on this day in 1989.  Initially, Berners-Lee envisioned "a large hypertext database with typed links,"named  “Mesh,” to help his colleagues at CERN (a large nuclear physics laboratory in Switzerland) share information amongst multiple computers.

Berners-Lee’s boss allowed him time to develop the  working model, writing the HTML language, the HTTP application, and WorldWideWeb.app— the first Web browser and page editor. By 1991, the external Web servers were up and running.

The Web revolutionized life as we know it, ushering in the information age. Today, there are nearly 2 billion websites online.

Internet,  had been evolving since the 1960s.  The World Wide Web is an online application built upon innovations like HTML language, URL “addresses,” and hypertext transfer protocol, or HTTP. The Web has  become a decentralized community, founded on principles of universality, consensus, and bottom-up design.
https://www.google.com/doodles/30th-anniversary-of-the-world-wide-web

Birthdays


 Leo Esaki
1925.
Japanese physicist. He shared (with Ivar Giaever and Brian Josephson) the Nobel Prize in Physics (1973) in recognition of his pioneering work on electron tunneling in solids.

Robert E. Gottschalk
1918
American inventor and business executive who was president of Panavision Inc., a company he helped found in 1953, to create a wide-screen film movie process.

Charles Friedel
1832
French organic chemist  who, with the American chemist James Mason Crafts, discovered in 1877 the chemical process known as the Friedel-Crafts reaction.
http://iit-jee-chemistry.blogspot.com/2007/10/study-guide-tmh-jee-ch24-benzene.html

 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
1824
German physicist who, with Robert Bunsen, established the theory of spectrum analysis (a technique for chemical analysis by analyzing the light emitted by a heated material).

Kirchhoff's laws (1845): He extended  Ohm's law to the calculation of the currents, voltages, and resistances of electrical networks. He demonstrated that current flows in a zero-resistance conductor at the speed of light.
Concept Review Ch.32 Electric Current in Conductors
http://iit-jee-physics.blogspot.com/2008/03/concept-review-ch32-electric-current-in.html



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