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Each Incubator at Couney's Infantorium measured around 1.5m high, with steel walls, framework and a glass front. [8] In order to fill the incubators with warm air, water boilers fed warm water into pipes that ran underneath where the babies rested and thermostats were placed inside the incubators to maintain and regulate temperatures. [8]
From the early 15th century to the early 17th century the Age of Discovery had, through Portuguese seafarers, and later, Spanish, Dutch, French and English, opened up southern Africa, the Americas (New World), Asia and Oceania to European eyes: Bartholomew Dias had sailed around the Cape of southern Africa in search of a trade route to India; Christopher Columbus, on four journeys across the ...
1800 – James Grant discovers the Australian coastline from Cape Banks to Cape Otway. [62] c. 1801–04 – A fur trading post is built on Great Bear Lake. [90] 1802 – John Murray discovers Port Phillip Bay. [62] 1802 – Matthew Flinders explores the coast from Fowlers Bay to Encounter Bay, discovering Spencer Gulf, Kangaroo Island, and ...
Cabral was the first captain to touch four continents, leading the first expedition that connected and united Europe, Africa, the New World, and Asia. [ 120 ] [ 121 ] At the invitation of King Manuel I of Portugal, Amerigo Vespucci [ 122 ] participated as an observer in these exploratory voyages to the east coast of South America.
This is a timeline of the history of international trade which chronicles notable events that have affected the trade between various countries.. In the era before the rise of the nation state, the term 'international' trade cannot be literally applied, but simply means trade over long distances; the sort of movement in goods which would represent international trade in the modern world.
An incubator is a device simulating avian incubation by keeping eggs warm at a particular temperature range and in the correct humidity with a turning mechanism to hatch them. The common names of the incubator in other terms include breeding / hatching machines or hatchers , setters , and egg breeding / equipment .
The 1800s (pronounced "eighteen-hundreds") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on 1 January 1800, and ended on 31 December 1809. The term "eighteen-hundreds" could also mean the entire century from 1 January 1800 to 31 December 1899 (the years beginning with "18"), [ citation needed ] and is almost synonymous with the 19th century ...
1800 BC: The Middle Kingdom of Egypt develops Egyptian fraction notation. 1800 BC - 1600 BC: A numerical approximation for the square root of two, accurate to 6 decimal places, is recorded on YBC 7289 , a Babylonian clay tablet believed to belong to a student.