#Zephry #museumscienceindustry @msichicago The Illinois Zephyr is a descendant of the Kansas City Zephyr and American Royal Zephyr passenger train routes operated by the Chic

#museumscienceindustry @msichicago oday the word “#stagecoach” is applied almost exclusively to the classic, oval-shaped overland coach produced in Concord, New Hampshire. These have starred in coun

#museumscienceindustry @msichicago oday the word “#stagecoach” is applied almost exclusively to the classic, oval-shaped overland coach produced in Concord, New Hampshire. These have starred in coun

1912 #Robertgoddard #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Robert Goddard, bundled against the cold weather of March 16, 1926, holds the launching frame of his most notable invention — the first liquid-fueled rocket.

1912 #Robertgoddard #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Robert Goddard, bundled against the cold weather of March 16, 1926, holds the launching frame of his most notable invention — the first liquid-fueled rocket.

#Nickelodeon #museumscienceindustry @msichicago The Nickelodeon was the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures in the United

#Chemicalfeast @msichicago #museumscienceindustry The Chemical Feast: Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on the Food and Drug Administration is a 1970 book usually associated with the

#Stagecoach #museumscienceindustry @msichicago That day's stage ride will always live in my memory – but not for its beauty spots. Jammed like sardines on the hard seats of an old time leather spring coach – a Concord – leaving Pantano, creeping much of the way, letting the horses walk, through miles of alkali dust that the wheels rolled up in thick clouds of which we received the full benefit ... It is always a mystery to the

#Stagecoach #museumscienceindustry @msichicago That day's stage ride will always live in my memory – but not for its beauty spots. Jammed like sardines on the hard seats of an old time le

#u505submarine #museumscienceindustry @msichicago U-505 is a German Type IXC submarine built for Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was captured by the U.S. Navy on 4 June 1944.

#u505submarine #museumscienceindustry @msichicago U-505 is a German Type IXC submarine built for Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was captured by the U.S. Navy on 4 June 1944.

#Napoleon #museumscienceindustry @msichicago About 1779, #SamuelCrompton succeeded in producing a mule-jenny, a machine which spun yarn suitable for use in the manufacture of muslin.[6] It was known as the muslin wheel or the Hall i'

1884 #reaction #museumscienceindustry @msichicago The Sandmeyer reaction is a chemical reaction used to synthesize aryl halides from aryl diazonium salts using copper salts as reagents or catalysts.[1][2][3] It is an example of a radical-nucleophili

1784 #AlexandriaWolfgang #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[a] (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic.[3] His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism,

1692 steam #Giovannibranca #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Giovanni Branca (22 April 1571 – 24 January 1645) was an Italian engineer and architect, chiefly remembered today for what some commentators have taken to be an early steam turbine.

130 bc #heroofAlexandria #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Hero of Alexandria (/ˈhɪəroʊ/; Greek: Ἥρων[1] ὁ Ἀλεξα

#Reaction @msichicago #museumscienceindustry A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the chemical transformation of one set of chemical substances to another.[1]

1783 #Jacquescharles #museumscienceindustry @msichicagoJacques Charles, in full Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles, (born November 12, 1746, Beaugency, France—died April 7, 1823, Paris), French mathematician, physicist, and inventor who, with Nicolas Robert, was the first to ascend in a hydrogen balloon (1783). About 1787 he developed Charles’s law concerning the thermal expansion of gases.

1783 #Jacquescharles #museumscienceindustry @msichicagoJacques Charles, in full Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles, (born November 12, 1746, Beaugency, France—died April

#Vacuumpump 1876 #museumscienceindustry @msichicago #HeinrichGeissler invented the mercury displacement pump in 1855

#Vacuumpump 1876 #museumscienceindustry @msichicago #HeinrichGeissler invented the mercury displacement pump in 1855

Fuel #museumscienceindustry @msichicago A #thermal column (or thermal) is a rising mass of buoyant air, a convective current in the atmosphere, that transfers heat energy verticall

245 bc# #kinghiero2 of #Syracuse asked #Archimedes determine crown gold Archimedes pure gold should spill gold #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Hiero II (Greek: Ἱέρων Β΄; c. 308 BC – 215 BC) was the Greek tyrant of Syracuse, Magna

245 bc# #kinghiero2 of #Syracuse asked #Archimedes determine crown gold Archimedes pure gold should spill gold #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Hiero II (Greek: Ἱέρων Β΄; c. 308 BC – 215 BC) was the Greek tyrant of Syracuse, Magna

#PierreCurrie Nobel prize 1895 #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Pierre Curie (/ˈkjʊəri/ KURE-ee,[1] French: [pjɛʁ kyʁi]; 15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and

#PierreCurrie Nobel prize 1895 #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Pierre Curie (/ˈkjʊəri/ KURE-ee,[1] French: [pjɛʁ kyʁi]; 15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and

#Tangent #galvanometer #museumscienceindustry @msichicago r I = K tan θ, where K is called the Reduction Factor of the tangent galvanometer.

#Tangent #galvanometer #museumscienceindustry @msichicago r I = K tan θ, where K is called the Reduction Factor of the tangent galvanometer.

#Galileo calculation motion experiment #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. Commonly referred to as Galileo, his name is pronounced /ˌɡælɪˈleɪ.oʊ ˌɡælɪˈleɪ.iˌ/ (GAL-ih-LAY-oh GAL-ih-

#Galileo calculation motion experiment #museumscienceindustry @msichicago Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described

#JeanBernard #Leonfoucault #museumscienceindustry @msichicago In 1850, he did an experiment using a rotating mirror to measure the speed of light; it was viewed as "driving the last nail in the coffin" of Newton's corpuscular theory of light when it showed that light travels more slowly through water than through air.[4] In 1851, he provided an experimental demonstration of the rotation of the Earth on its axis (diu

#JeanBernard #Leonfoucault #museumscienceindustry @msichicago In 1850, he did an experiment using a rotating mirror to measure the speed of light; it was viewed as "driving the last nail in the coffin" of Newton's corpuscular theory of light when it vrth on its axis (diu

#Sideshow #museumscienceindustry @msichicago The MSI closed its circus exhibit on Tuesday of last week after nearly 50 years. Several items from the circus featured at the museum are going up for auction. They include motorized dioramas