Urban Tapestries Recent PocketsMost recently added pocketsmichael faraday- 1791-1867 (Barry Gibb)- June 23, 2004 Thread: science greats!a great pioneer in the fields of electricity and magnatism, michael started life as an apprentice bookbinder before going on to revolutionise the world of science map image inlinedhttp://trial.urbantapestries.net/content/1380/utimage.jpg hans sloane 1660-1773 (Barry Gibb)- June 23, 2004 Thread: science greats!a fantastic obsever of nature, hans started observing the world as a child in ireland and never looked back - during his long, successful life he amassed a huge collection of plants and animals BUT you might be more inclined to remember hans for another reason - he brought cocoa back from jamaica, mixed it with milk and invented milk chocolate! map image inlinedhttp://trial.urbantapestries.net/content/1379/utimage.jpg george cayley 1773-1857 (Barry Gibb)- June 22, 2004 Thread: science greats!an engineer and inventor, george was a polymath - able to excel at many subjects - 50 years before the wright brothers got off the ground george entertained himself by designing and building a piloted but unpowered aeroplane! map image inlinedhttp://trial.urbantapestries.net/content/1367/utimage.jpg henry cavendish 1731-1810 (Barry Gibb)- June 22, 2004 Thread: science greats!henry was a chemist and physicist notable for his rigerous nature- his calculations to determine the density of the planet earth were not bettered for over a century! map image inlinedhttp://trial.urbantapestries.net/content/1366/utimage.jpg robert brown 1773-1858 (Barry Gibb)- June 22, 2004 Thread: science greats!robert was a botanist who pioneered the plant classification system. Famous for his attention to detail you may know him more from the term used to describe the small movements of things seen under the microscope-brownian motion map image inlinedhttp://trial.urbantapestries.net/content/1365/utimage.jpg leo bonn 1850-1929 (Barry Gibb)- June 16, 2004 Thread: science greats!leo was a deaf merchant banker who set up what we now call the royal national institute for deaf people map image inlinedhttp://trial.urbantapestries.net/content/1275/utimage.jpg not happy (Barry Gibb)- June 15, 2004 Thread: barryg's threadgot a grant that would have changed my life rejected today map image inlinedhttp://trial.urbantapestries.net/content/1272/utimage.jpg charles babbage 1791-1871 (Barry Gibb)- June 15, 2004 Thread: science greats!often credited with invention of the computer, due to the construction of his Analytical Machine. What most people dont know about though is that charles also invented the cowcatcher and hated street musicians... map image inlinedhttp://trial.urbantapestries.net/content/1271/utimage.jpg lsaac newton 1642-1727 (Barry Gibb)- June 14, 2004 Thread: science greats!visit www.newton.cam.ac.uknewtlife.html to find out more about the man who tamed the planets, calculus, optics, etc - a real character, newton had an unbounded curiosity -from alchemy to maths map image inlinedhttp://trial.urbantapestries.net/content/1268/utimage.jpg |
