Ideas of Alfred Nobel
Gelignite
~explosive material consisting of collodion-cotton (a type of nitrocellulose or gun cotton) dissolved in nitroglycerine and mixed with wood pulp and sodium nitrate or potassium nitrate
"The first synthesis of nitroglycerine was achieved ... by treating glycerine with a mixture of sulphuric and nitric acid. It [was]... a powerful explosive...Alfred Nobel solved the problem of the high sensitivity to shock by absorbing the liquid in kieselguhr - the dynamite was invented."
{Sigrist M, 1998. Industrial synthesis and handling of a highly explosive material - Nitroglycerine as example Context Sensitive Links, Volume: 52 Issue: 12; Pg: 728-730 }
Ideas of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
~co-inventor of the aqualung: consists of a high pressure diving cylinder and a diving regulator that supplies the diver with breathing gas at ambient pressure, via a demand valve.
"Cousteau brought together his best divers, engineers and designers to provide Calypso with sophisticated equipment they called streamlined scuba. This new equipment reduced fatigue and consequently air consumption, allowing the divers to move about more quickly and for a longer time. The membrane of the regulator was positioned on the chest, closest to the center of the volume of air in the lungs."
{cousteau : custodian of the sea since 1943, 2009 . Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus[Online] (Updated 6 april 2009)
Available at: http://www.cousteau.org/technology/aqua-lung [Accessed 06 April 2009].}
Ideas of Kieth Campbell
"Kieth Campbell and I with our colleagues ...cloned Dolly from a cell that had been taken from the memory gland on an old ewe to reconstruct an embroy that we transfered into the womb of a surrogate mother,where it developed to become a lamb."
pg: 3
{Wilmut, I; Campbell,K and Tudge,C.2001. The second creation: Dolly and the age of biological control,Boston, Harvard University Press. 2001}
N.b: i used the Harvard System of Referencing
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