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Friday, July 26, 2024
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Longitudinal section of the River Thames, with an imagined completed tunnel, detail of half-title engraving, An Explanation of the Works of the Tunnel under the Thames from Rotherhithe to Wapping, by the Thames Tunnel Company, 1836 (Linda Hall Library)
Marc Isambard Brunel, a British civil and mechanical engineer, was the first man to successfully supervise the digging of a tunnel under a ...
James Thornhill, an English artist, was born July 25, 1675, or 1676. Thornhill is known as a historical painter, and an indefatigable one, since ...
Joris Hoefnagel, a Flemish painter, miniaturist, and topographical artist, was born in Antwerp in 1542 and died on July 24, 1600, in Vienna (or so ...
Marc-Auguste Pictet, a Swiss chemist, natural philosopher, and scientific translator, was born in Geneva on July 23, 1753. He was not much of an ...
Francesco Maurolico, a Sicilian mathematician and classical scholar, died on July 21 or 22, 1575, having been born in Messina on Sep 16, 1494 ...
Cesare Cremonini, an Italian natural philosopher, died July 19, 1631, at the age of 81. Cremonini spent the first part of his career at the ...
Eugene Shoemaker, an American geologist, died on July 18, 1997, age 69, in an accident in Australia. In the early 1960s, Shoemaker became ...
On July 17, 1981, at 7:05 in the evening, the walkways in the atrium of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, collapsed...
Theodor Galle, a Flemish engraver, was born or baptized on July 16, 1571, in Antwerp. His father, Philips, was a publisher and engraver, and he...
Jean-Baptiste Charcot, a French polar explorer and physician, was born July 15, 1867. His father, Jean Charcot, was a famous physician in his own ...
George Eastman, an American inventor and manufacturer, was born July 12, 1854, n a village just north of Utica, New York. In 1877, while employed ...
On July 11, 1772, Captain James Cook sailed from Plymouth on his second voyage around the world. He had been back in England only 14 months since ...
Samuel Wendell Williston, an American entomologist, paleontologist, and physician, was born July 10, 1852, in Boston. He moved with his parents to...
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