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  2. Arthur Wynne - Wikipedia

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    Inventor of crossword puzzle Arthur Wynne ( / w ɪ n / ; June 22, 1871 – January 14, 1945) was the British-born inventor of the modern crossword puzzle . Early life

  3. Torricelli's experiment - Wikipedia

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    The barometer is then placed inverted on the dish full of mercury. This causes the mercury in the tube to fall down until the difference between mercury on the surface and in the tube is about 760 mm. [ 2 ] Even when the tube is shaken or tilted, the difference between the surface and in the tube is not affected due to the influence of ...

  4. Evaporating dish - Wikipedia

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    An evaporating dish is a piece of laboratory glassware used for the evaporation of solutions and supernatant liquids, [a] and sometimes to their melting point.Evaporating dishes are used to evaporate excess solvents – most commonly water – to produce a concentrated solution or a solid precipitate of the dissolved substance.

  5. List of English inventors and designers - Wikipedia

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    Frank Whittle (1907–1996), co-inventor of the jet engine William Winlaw (d.1796), patented agricultural machinery Arthur Wynne (1862–1945), inventor of crossword puzzle

  6. Jacob Perkins - Wikipedia

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    Jacob Perkins (July 9, 1766 – July 30, 1849) was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist based in the United Kingdom.Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith.

  7. Henry Cavendish - Wikipedia

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    Henry Cavendish FRS (/ ˈ k æ v ən d ɪ ʃ / KAV-ən-dish; 10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was an English experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. He is noted for his discovery of hydrogen, which he termed "inflammable air". [1] He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper, On ...

  8. List of inventions named after people - Wikipedia

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    Barker code – Ronald Hugh Barker; Barlow lens – Barlow's wheel – Peter Barlow [9] Bath Oliver – William Oliver; Beaufort scale – Sir Francis Beaufort; Beecham's Pills – Thomas Beecham; Belisha beacon – Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha; Benedict's reagent – Stanley Rossiter Benedict [10] Benson raft – Simon Benson [11]

  9. Wolfgang Scheffler (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Scheffler cooker at JNV school in Leh, India.. Wolfgang Scheffler (born 1956) is the inventor/promoter of Scheffler Reflectors, large, flexible parabolic reflecting dishes that concentrate sunlight for solar cooking in community kitchens, bakeries, and in the world's first solar-powered crematorium. [1]