tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092630105483348281.post963190472334748286..comments2013-06-17T09:47:14.554-07:00Comments on The Secret of Newton: Project BOTLOS!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092630105483348281.post-72078377816625422702009-01-26T00:55:00.000-08:002009-01-26T00:55:00.000-08:00Industrial revolution... I vaguely remember (i.e. ...Industrial revolution... I vaguely remember (i.e. "just skimmed the wikipedia article") two of them, the first one starting in the middle-to-late 18th century with weaving machines (or spinning, not too sure, maybe both) which led to the first uprisings of workers jobless due to new technology, the original luddites (rather ruthlessly quelled by the Empire, I am afraid), which more or less seamlessly went over to the second one in the late 19th century, when steam power and steel manufacture really took off.<BR/>But I don't think there is a definite point (or even several) in history where you count point to and say: This is where it all started.Boris Legradichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06306946018677419450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092630105483348281.post-54674714330649565542009-01-24T19:33:00.000-08:002009-01-24T19:33:00.000-08:00The people have spoken! Comments are open here or...The people have spoken! Comments are open here or in the BOTLOS Boxing Ring. Thanks a truckload for the suggestions above. I'll get them in the time line. Lady Blog Fodder pulls through and goes big!Brian Steelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03440717772959591023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092630105483348281.post-23367096323997202702009-01-24T18:10:00.000-08:002009-01-24T18:10:00.000-08:00The problem with making my comments on the other l...The problem with making my comments on the other list is that I went back and forth from your list and what I was recommending adding to make sure I didn't duplicate your stuff. It will be more difficult to do so on a separate article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092630105483348281.post-3224855924370018262009-01-24T17:06:00.000-08:002009-01-24T17:06:00.000-08:00The answer to all of the "Why did/didn't you inclu...The answer to all of the "Why did/didn't you include..." questions is the same. When I went to the grocery store of history, I was looking for a few snacks and didn't walk down every isle.<BR/><BR/>The answer to all of the "Did you mean..." questions is also probably the same. Much of this has been kluged over the last 6 years and frankly I don't know/remember what I meant by much of this.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for filling in some blanks. I'll be adding these to the BOTLOS. Also, I moved the discussion items over to the BOTLOS Boxing Ring, which in no way should imply that battles must occur there. It just as easily could've been called the BOTLOS cafe or gathering, but I was looking for an alliterative name.<BR/><BR/>The list is certainly heavy in physics because the novel centers on the Cavendish Lab at Cambridge, which was primarily concerned with physics. I'd like to add other disciplines though.Brian Steelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03440717772959591023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092630105483348281.post-55673730156283550092009-01-24T15:16:00.000-08:002009-01-24T15:16:00.000-08:00People I would have included but you didn't:Hippoc...People I would have included but you didn't:<BR/><BR/>Hippocrates (ca. 460 BC – ca. 370 BC)<BR/>Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi (936 - 1013)<BR/>Theodoric Borgognoni (1205-1296)<BR/>Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)<BR/>Isaac Beeckman (1588-1637)<BR/>Descartes (1596-1650)<BR/>Robert Boyle (1627-1691)<BR/>Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782)(and father and sibs)<BR/>Leonhard Paul Euler (1707-1783)<BR/>Luigi Galvani (1737-1798)<BR/>Count Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)<BR/>Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749-1827)<BR/>André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836)<BR/>Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851)<BR/>Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854)<BR/>Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)<BR/>Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884)<BR/>William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907)<BR/>Max Planck (1858-1947)<BR/>Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934)<BR/>Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945)<BR/>Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962)<BR/>Wernher von Braun (1912-1977)<BR/>Jonas Salk (1914-1995)<BR/>Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988)<BR/><BR/>There's more, of course, but this should help.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092630105483348281.post-8719564935671754382009-01-24T14:18:00.000-08:002009-01-24T14:18:00.000-08:00Alfred the Great, first "King of the English". ht...Alfred the Great, first "King of the English". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_the_Great<BR/><BR/>(I can't believe you dabble in English history and don't know this. For shame!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092630105483348281.post-14805254074584172782009-01-24T09:39:00.000-08:002009-01-24T09:39:00.000-08:00Did you mean Edwards II and Edwards III or Edward ...Did you mean Edwards II and Edwards III or Edward II and Edward III.<BR/><BR/>This entry: King Henry VIII, Tudor - was that when he was born? Ditto kings/queens that followed? Or is it when they took the throne?<BR/><BR/>Why mention the Mayflower but not the earlier efforts like the ill-fated Roanoke and the establishment of Jamestown in 1607?<BR/><BR/>You might include when Charles I was beheaded (or that he was).<BR/><BR/>Which climax of the French Revolution did you mean? The King and Queen were put to death in 1793. Reign of Terror 1793-1794. Napoleon took the throne in 1804. <BR/><BR/>Why is the birth of Edward, son of Victoria, noted, but nothing on Victoria's ascension (or the three Georges before her). Also, no mention of End of American Revolutionary War or its beginnings as a nation in 1783.<BR/><BR/>Overall, your scientists are heavy into the physics side of things. I'll suggest a list of inportant people that you missed like Descartes, Pasteur, Fleming, Salk, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092630105483348281.post-73704088793941288252009-01-24T09:36:00.000-08:002009-01-24T09:36:00.000-08:00No offense to anybody named "Alfred", but that jus...No offense to anybody named "Alfred", but that just doesn't sound like a "great" historical figure. Kinda like "Filmore the Fantastic" or "Timmy the Terrific". No offense either to the Filmore's or Timmy's of the world.<BR/><BR/>Anybody have thoughts on when the industrial revolution began? I realize that it's not as if there is a discrete moment in time when some Governor said, "Hey! I got a swell idea. Today I'm starting an industrial revolution." But since it is a bit fuzzy, there seems to be some good discussion lurking.<BR/><BR/>OtherBrian Steelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03440717772959591023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092630105483348281.post-79885159562483211612009-01-23T21:07:00.000-08:002009-01-23T21:07:00.000-08:00Completely unrelated, did you know I was descended...Completely unrelated, did you know I was descended from William the Conqueror and, since his descendant married a descendant of the Anglo-Saxon Kings, I'm descended from Alfred the Great, too.<BR/><BR/>I'm going to need a chunk of time to go through this so, um, not tonight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com