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jeopardy/2056_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  The full name for a group that a sheriff enlists to aid himself is this comitatus, "of the county" | Posse .... MEASURES OF PEOPLE | dB is the symbol for a measurement named for this Scottish-born inventor | Alexander Graham Bell. right:.
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List of scientists whose names are used as SI units - Wikipedia  List of scientists whose names are used as SI units is the list of those scientists whose names are assigned as the names of the international units by the International Committee for Weights and Measures. ... Napier and decibel are two dimensionless units used to define relative .... "Inventor Alessandro Volta Biography".
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Dreadlocks - Wikipedia  Dreadlocks, also locs, dreads, or in Sanskrit, Jata, are ropelike strands of hair formed by ... Another name for the style is locks (sometimes spelled "locs"). ... children are born with naturally locked hair and are given a special name: "Dada". ... Rastafari movement locks are symbolic of the Lion of Judah which is sometimes...
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Scottish inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia  "the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws ..... The Maxwell Ringlet and Maxwell Gap were named in his honor. ... The concept of latent heat by French-born Joseph Black (17281799) ..... Geology' D. B. McIntyre, Alan McKirdy 2001, National Museums of Scotland Pub.
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Alexander Graham Bell - Wikipedia  Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847  August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, ...... The bel (B) and the smaller decibel (dB) are units of measurement of sound intensity invented by Bell Labs and named after him. ... In 2006 Bell was also named as one of the 10 greatest Scottish scientists in history after...
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134565373-Inventor - Scribd  The Wright brothers were two Americans credited with inventing and building the ... Drew is the father of "Scotch" brand pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes. ... One crusty auto painter got a defective roll ... until it was attached to Drew's second invention. ... John A. Borden, another 3M employee. ...... These are the main ones:
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List of scientific units named after people - Wikipedia  This is a list of scientific units named after people. For other lists of eponyms (names derived ... becquerel (Bq), radioactivity  Henri Becquerel  degree Celsius (C), ... ratio  Alexander Graham Bell  farad (F), capacitance  Michael Faraday...
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Tesla (unit) - Wikipedia  Unit of, Magnetic field strength. Symbol, T. Named after, Nikola Tesla. In SI base units: kgs2A1. The tesla (symbol T) is a unit of measurement of the strength of a magnetic field. It is a derived .... magnet; 0.3 T  the strength of solar sunspots; 1.25 T  magnetic flux density at the ... History of Science 1700 to Present.
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Inventions & Discoveries (A to Z) - CSS Forums  Airship : Henri Giffard, France, 1852; Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Germany, 1900. Antibiotics : Louis Pasteur, Jules-Francois Joubert, France, 1887; (discovery of penicillin) Alexander Fleming, Scotland, 1928. .... 1873; (spark coil, generator of electromagnetic waves) Heinrich Hertz, Germany, 1886; .... to sit in the driver's seat;
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James Watt - Wikipedia  James Watt FRS FRSE (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS)  25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on ... Subsequently three professors offered him the opportunity to set up a small ... In trying to understand the thermodynamics of heat and steam James Watt carried...
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Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt | British physician and inventor ...  English physician, the inventor of the short clinical thermometer. ... July 20, 1836 ... Learn More in these related articles: ... and inventor Charles Babbage, who in 1847 developed an instrument. ... It was initially 25.4 cm (10 inches) long and took five minutes to register a temperature ... 1 Reference found in Britannica Articles.
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Sir David Brewster - Molecular Expressions - Florida State University  Sir David Brewster was a Scottish physicist who invented the kaleidoscope, made ... and discovered the polarization phenomenon of light reflected at specific angles. ... a craze in the early nineteenth century and quickly became a household toy for ... for transmitted light, rendering the usual Snell's law formula inapplicable.
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I. Read the texts - .  Although his parents had not been formally educated, Ohm's father was a respected man ... After 1820 the study of electricity and magnetism moved at a very rapid rate. .... The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him. ... Luckily, the physics lab was well-equipped, so Ohm devoted himself to...
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Lord Kelvin biography - Science Hall of Fame - National Library of ...  Did you know? ... Devising the absolute temperature scale, now called the 'Kelvin scale' ... Best remembered for his talent for theoretical mathematics, he also had a ... William Thomson was born at 21-25 College Square East in Belfast in 1824. ... Kelvin boldly stated that Kelland was wrong  and later scientists agreed with...
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On this day in Scotland: Charles Macintosh  Jul 25, 2011 ... Charles Macintosh, inventor of the 'Mackintosh' raincoat, died on the 25th ... in cloth dyeing processes and helped develop a method for making ... as a dye-maker, to use the liquid rubber for waterproofing fabrics. ... initially in Glasgow and later in Manchester, in 1824, after he went ... Labels: Famous Scots...
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Basic Electronic Concepts Flashcards | Quizlet  the unit of measurement of electrical current flow, named after Andre Amepere, a 19th century French Physicist. One ampere is the value of current that will be...
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Ian Donald - Wikipedia  Ian Donald (December 1910  19 June 1987) was a Scottish physician who pioneered the use of diagnostic ultrasound in medicine. Whilst Professor of Midwifery at Glasgow University, he first explored the use of ultrasound in the 1950s after seeing it used in the Glasgow shipyards to look for flaws in ... "Localisation using physical devices, radioisotopes and radiographic...
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Free Flashcards about SCIENTISTS - StudyStack  THE "MOTION" OF PARTICLES IN A STILL LIQUID WAS NAMED FOR THIS SCOTTISH .... THIS AMERICAN BOTANIST DEVELOPED OVER 400 PRODUCTS FROM THE .... THE IDEA OF HORSEPOWER ORIGINATED WITH THIS SCOTTISH...
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Free Flashcards about SCIENTISTS - StudyStack  A METHOD OF STAINING BACTERIA IS NAMED FOR HIM, BUT THE METRIC UNIT OF WEIGHT ISN'T, HANS CHRISTIAN GRAM. IN THE 16TH-C. KONRAD...
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This Month in Physics History - American Physical Society  August 1827: Robert Brown and Molecular Motion in a Pollen-filled Puddle. ... was a paper on the motion of small particles suspended in a stationary liquid. ... rooted in the observations of a 19th century Scottish botanist named Robert Brown. ... Much of this collection was lost en route back to England, but there were still...
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History of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Part 1  It was around similar times that ultrasound was used experimentally as a .... Ludwig was able to detect distinct ultrasonic signals corresponding to the gallstones. .... work in 1950 on uni-directional A-mode ultrasound investigations into the thickness ..... Because of his interest in machines, Ian was known as 'Mad Donald' by...