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Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet (21 December 1803 – 22 January 1887) was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. [2] In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads . [ 3 ]
Chinese-language Vietnamese encyclopedia, Lê Quý Đôn, 4 fascicles 1782: Qing dynasty: Complete Library of the Four Treasuries: Largest collection of Chinese history, philosophy, and literature, Ji Yun, 79,000 fascicles 1917: Republic of China: The Encyclopaedia Sinica: First English-language encyclopedia on China, 1 volume 1938: Republic of ...
1779 – Native Hawaiians killed the English explorer Captain James Cook after he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief of the island of Hawaii. 1990 – The NASA space probe Voyager 1 took Pale Blue Dot (detail pictured) , a photograph of Earth from a record distance of 40.5 astronomical units (6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi).
Lèishū 類書 (lit. "category book") "reference work arranged by category; encyclopedia" is commonly translated as "traditional Chinese encyclopedia", but they differ from modern encyclopedias in that they are compendia composed of selected and categorically arranged quotations from Chinese classics, "the name encyclopedia having been applied ...
A Whitworth Scholar is the accolade given to those who have successfully completed a Whitworth Scholarship. It is rare on the basis that only a small number of scholarships are issued each year which has quite specific application conditions and a tough review process. A Whitworth Scholar is permitted to use the post-nominal letters, WhSch.
Christie was an enthusiastic book collector, and bequeathed to Owens College his library of about 15,000 volumes, rich in a very complete set of the books printed by Étienne Dolet, a series of Aldine Press publications, and of volumes printed by Sebastian Gryphius and other European humanists.
China After Mao (book) China and Russia; China and Southeast Asia in the Xi Jinping Era; China and the West, 1858–1861; China at War; China Candid; China Economic Yearbook; China Fights Back; China Illustrata; China Road; China's Economy; China's Spiritual Need and Claims; China's Super Consumers; China's Wartime Finance and Inflation
China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-517665-0. Lewis, Mark Edward. 2012. China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (2012). excerpt; A standard scholarly survey. Schafer, Edward H. 1967. The Vermilion Bird: T'ang Images of the South. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.