http://www.inventioninfo.info/logfiles Invention timeline, news, and information. Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:00:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en b. ? 1765 and d. November 18, 1854 British officer. About 1808 he invented a mode of saving life by shooting from a mortar a rope to mariners shipwrecked near the coast.  Mournful wave! I deemed thy song  Was telling of a mournful prison,  Which, when tempests swept along,  And the mighty winds were risen,  Foundered ... http://www.inventioninfo.info/logfiles/1334/invention-timeline-george-w-manby-british-officer-invented-the-mortar-that-shoots-a-rope-to-shipwrecked-mariners b. November 18, 1810 and d. ? American inventor. From 1842-1873 he was Professor at Harvard. With Dr. John Torrey, he classified species on the natural basis of affinity. In 1874 he was Regent of the Smithsonian Institute. From 1863-'73 he was President of the Amer. Acad. of Arts and Sciences, ... http://www.inventioninfo.info/logfiles/1333/invention-timeline-asa-gray-american-inventor-classifed-species-on-the-natural-basis-of-affinity-with-dr-john-torrey b. April 4, 1823 and d. November 18, 1883 English inventor, metallurgist and electrician. With his brother, Werner, he made improvements in electric plating and in the solutions used for gilding and silvering. A chronometric governor for steam engines was devised by Werner and worked out by William and the process ... http://www.inventioninfo.info/logfiles/1332/invention-timeline-sir-william-siemens-english-inventor-metallurgist-and-electrician-invented-the-regenerative-furnace-which-was-applied-to-the-manufacture-of-steel b. ? 1710 and d. November 17, 1776 Scottish mechanician and astronomer. Without assistance he discovered the fundamental principles of the lever and the wheel and axle. While serving as a shepherd he made himself master of astronomy and constructed models of mills, spinning wheels and at length framed a pair ... http://www.inventioninfo.info/logfiles/1331/invention-timeline-james-ferguson-scottish-mechanician-and-astronomer-discovered-the-fundamental-principles-of-the-lever-wheel-and-axle b. November 17, 1788 and d. March 31, 1870 American inventor. Manufacture of nails and cut files with improved machines of his own construction. He improved the machine originally devised by his father for leather-splitting, which he adapted for the splitting of sheep-skins and thin leather for bookbinder's use. In 1819 ... http://www.inventioninfo.info/logfiles/1330/invention-timeline-seth-boyden-american-inventor-substituted-the-straight-axle-in-place-of-the-crank-in-locomotives Lived about 370 B. C. Greek astronomer. Pliny informed us that he determined the length of the year at 365 1/4 days. He is also said to have originated the doctrine of the concentric solid crystalline spheres, by which the apparent motions of the sun, the moon and the planets were ... http://www.inventioninfo.info/logfiles/1329/invention-timeline-exodus-greek-astronomer-determined-length-of-the-year b. November 16, 1717 and d. October 29, 1783 French geometer and philosopher. In 1743 he published a "Treatise on Dynamics," containing an important principle which is known by his name and which initiated a revolution in physico-mathematical sciences. He wrote "Researches on Various Important Points of the System of the ... http://www.inventioninfo.info/logfiles/1328/invention-timeline-jean-le-rond-dalembert-french-geometer-and-philosopher-published-treatise-on-dynamics-in-1743 b. November 15, 1814 and d. ? 1894 German inventor. Discoverer of the Mannesmann process for rolling seamless steel tubes. By this process a hot steel billet is passed between two conical rolls set with their axes at a small angle to each other. The billet comes out as a tube ... http://www.inventioninfo.info/logfiles/1327/invention-timeline-reinhard-mannesmann-german-inventor-discoverer-of-the-mannesmann-process-for-rolling-seamless-steel-tubes b. November 15, 1738 and d. August 25, 1822 German astronomer in England. In 1781 he discovered a new world which he names Georgian Star, but generally called Herscal or Uranus, March 13, 1781. Afterwards he discovered six moons, belonging to his new planet. His largest telescope was forty feet long, ... http://www.inventioninfo.info/logfiles/1326/invention-timeline-sir-william-herschel-german-astronomer-discovered-uranus b. November 14, 1797 and d. February 22, 1875 Exeter College, Oxford, B. A., 1819; M. A., 1821 English geologist. He divided the tertiary period into eocene, miocene and pliocene, which has met with world-wide acceptance. In 1838 he published "Elements of Geology" and in 1871 a virtually new work, "The Student's ... http://www.inventioninfo.info/logfiles/1325/invention-timeline-sir-charles-lyell-english-geologist-divided-the-tertiary-period-into-eocene-miocene-and-pliocene