1,000 inventions and discoveries

... Laszlo Bíró invented the 1st ballpoint pen Alexander Bell invented the 1st practical telephone in 1876 The Wright brothers built the 1st powered and piloted plane Henry Ford designed the 1st ... automobile G Daimler invented the high speed petrol engine Levi Strauss made the 1st blue jeans K Brandenburg created the 1st MP3 technology Charles Babbage is called the father of computer He inve...

Ngày tải lên: 30/08/2016, 11:27

... world for many years, until a catastrophe occurred on Martinique, an FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 67 2/8/10 10:57:41 AM  earth ScienceS island in the Caribbean Sea On May 8, 1902, Mount Pelée erupted, destroying the island’s city of Saint-Pierre and killing 30,000 people ... Such an event might cause an “avalanche” of rocky material and lighter elements that compose the bound- FOS _E...

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Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 11:29

... Science_DC.indd 16 4 16 5 16 8 17 1 17 3 17 5 17 7 17 8 18 1 18 2 18 4 2/8 /10 10 :56 :15 AM Chronology Further Resources Final thoughts Glossary Further Resources Index FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 18 6 18 8 19 2 19 6 200 ... Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 97 8-0 - 816 0-7 44 2-6 (hardcover) ISBN 97 8 -1 -4 38 1- 2 96 8-6 (e-book) Geology Ea...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... of sound, flew at an altitude of about 45,000 feet (13.7 km), where the FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 2/ 8/10 10:56 :28 AM  earth ScienceS Seismic recording equipment, part of the Earthquake Arrival Recording Seismic System (EARSS) in New Zealand (New Zealand © GNS ... reached a depth of 40 ,22 0 feet ( 12, 2 62 m)—7.6 miles ( 12. 26 km)! Drilling to such depths is an extremely demandi...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... Geology and to Collecting and Identifying Rocks New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992 This book introduces the subject of geology FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 31 2/8/10 10:56: 53 AM  earth ScienceS and focuses on practical applications, such as collecting minerals and ... directly on Earth s axis, but instead is a small distance away A compass FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 37 2/...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... This region contains several hot spots—Samoa, Cook Islands, FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 87 2/8/10 10 :58 :36 AM  earth ScienceS Austral Islands, Tahiti, Marquesas Islands, and Pitcairn (the island to which Fletcher Christian and the other mutineers of the HMS Bounty fled) ... Schmidt and Wendy W Zhang, researchers at the University of Chicago in Illinois, analyzed and extended D...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... companies—Hitaveita Sudurnesja, Landsvirkjun, and Orkuveita Reykjavíkur and the National Energy Authority of Iceland, plans to drill holes up to 16, 400 feet (5,000 m) to reach the hot fluid on the margins of the mid-ocean ridge ... 24/7 and be captured nearly anywhere on the planet And it would be a perfect complement to intermittent sources like solar and wind.” FOS _Earth Scienc...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... darker and darker And the old house is just a-vibrating like it was going to blow away And I started trying to see my hand And I kept bringing my hand up closer and closer and closer and closer And ... 10 earth ScienceS As geologists gain a more complete understanding of Earth and its water distribution, locating and exploiting water resources such as underground so...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... forecasts and climate research FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 157 2 /8/ 10 10:59:19 AM PREDICTING EARTHQUAKES At 2: 28 in the afternoon of Monday, May 12, 20 08, millions of Chinese in Sichuan Province and the surrounding area felt the ground start to shake ... weather systems can have enormous consequences FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 153 2 /8/ 10 10:59: 18 AM 1 earth ScienceS 1...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... and Forecasting.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 1 89 2/8/10 10: 59: 52 AM 10 earth ScienceS (February 19, 2002): 2,514–2,521 The researchers describe general approaches to modeling complicated systems occurring in geology and ... San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth project 00 1 USGS announces an earthquake forecast that wa...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... 68–69, 71, 81, 91–92, 101 hot springs and geysers 72, 72, 101 , 103 , 109 humidity 135 hydrology 132, 133 I Iceland 72, 103 , 103 , 107 , 107 , 109 , 110 111, 124 Idaho 111, 121, 124 Ide, Satoshi 176, 180 Illinois earthquake ... (power stations) 102 107 , 107 geysers and hot springs 72, 72, 101 , 103 , 109 heat pumps 112 limitations of 114–119, 123 MIT interdisciplinary pan...

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