clergyman, businessmanBorn: 7/2/1853Birthplace: Maine, N.Y. After seven years in his own church as a Baptist minister, he helped to reorganize the University of Chicago, which brought him to the…
Born: 1913Birthplace: Detroit, Mich. Numerical control of machine tools—Parsons built a milling machine which was fed data to automatically activate servo-mechanisms to perform automatic contour…
Born: 1912 Atomic Technology. The nuclear chemist's best-known achievement was the synthesis and isolation of the radioactive element plutonium. He pioneered the creation of new exotic isotopes and…
chemistBorn: 11/29/1936Birthplace: Hsinchu, Taiwan Yuan T. Lee was one of three who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Although Lee's childhood in Taiwan was interrupted by World War II,…
A group of investors from South Dakota paid more than $90,000 for the fossilized remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex at an auction in May 2004 in California. The price tag was considerably less…
(Encyclopedia) Lawrence, James, 1781–1813, American naval hero, b. Burlington, N.J. He entered the navy in 1798 and saw his first important service in the Tripolitan War. In the War of 1812, as…
(Encyclopedia) Cook, James, 1728–79, English explorer and navigator. The son of a Yorkshire agricultural laborer, he had little formal education. After an apprenticeship to a firm of shipowners at…
DENVER, James William, (father of Matthew Rombach Denver), a Representative from California; born in Winchester, Va., October 23, 1817; attended the public schools; moved to Ohio in 1830 with…
(Encyclopedia) Wilkinson, James, 1757–1825, American general and one of the most corrupt and devious officers in the nation's early army, b. Calvert co., Md. Abandoning his medical studies in 1776 to…
Spinosaurus vs. T. rex The ultimate grudge match? by Holly Hartman RELATED LINKS Dinosaur CentralDinosaur Hall of FameDid Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?Cretaceous…
