Word: inventors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Public Library of Philadelphia, which has undertaken the task of compiling a list of all the incunabula in the United States, and the places where they may be found. This list is to figure in the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Gutenberg of Maing, the inventor of printing
Professor Rogers graduated from Brown University in 1857. He was identified with Harvard from 1870, as assistant at the Observatory, then assistant professor of astronomy, to 1886. Since then he has held the chair of Astronomy and Physics at Colby University. As a devoted student of astronomy and the inventor and perfector of several instruments for work in Physics, Professor Rogers had attained a national reputation...
Davis, the oarsman and inventor of rowing apparatus, has received an order from Yale for an eight-oar shell, to be built at the Detroit Boat Works, and is to be fitted with all the latest patented Davis appliances. It is reported that the new shell is 68 feet long, beam 20 inches and depth 10 inches...
Professor Eli Whitney Blake, until the close of the last college year Hazard professor of physics at Brown University, died at Hampton, Conn., Tuesday, aged fifty-nine years. He was born in New Haven, his father being the well known inventor of the same name, was graduated at Yale in 1857, studied chemistry and physics in the universities of Heidelberg, Marburg and Berlin, and returning to this country was named professor of chemistry and physics in the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. He was afterwards professor of physics and mechanic arts at Cornell University; acting professor of physics...
...coxswain's pump for the practice shell of the University crew has been put into practical use and its efficiency exceeds the most sanguine hopes of its inventor, Captain Armstrong. It throws about eight gallons of water from the shell per minute and interferes in no way with the motion of the boat. All the crews are on Lake Whitney practicing for the interclass races which take place on Wednesday...