bioscope
bioscope
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aslope, cope, dope, elope, grope, hope, interlope, lope, mope, nope, ope, pope, rope, scope, slope, soap, taupe, tope, trope
•myope • telescope • periscope
•stereoscope • bioscope • stroboscope
•kaleidoscope • CinemaScope
•gyroscope • microscope • horoscope
•stethoscope • antelope • envelope
•zoetrope • skipping-rope • tightrope
•towrope • heliotrope • lycanthrope
•philanthrope • thaumatrope
•misanthrope
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isotope, radioisotope
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Collecting the past
Magazine article from: ASEE Prism; 5/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...887-page tome written by civil engineer William A. Radford in 1913. While the book may have...Norwich University in 1820 4. Answer: John Ericsson 5. Answer: William John Macquorn Rankine, who also created the Rankine temperature...
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The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Physics in Victorian Britain. (general and international).
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...a web of intellectual biographies, tackling William Thomson, James Joule, Macquorn Rankine, James Clerk Maxwell, as well as a host of...metropolitan reformers like Thomas Huxley or John Tyndall. This increasingly subtle picture of...
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William John Macquorn Rankine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
William John Macquorn Rankine , 1820-72, Scottish engineer and physicist. Serving as a professor of engineering at the Univ. of Glasgow from 1855, he made...
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Rankine, William John Macquorn
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
RANKINE, WILLIAM JOHN MACQUORN ( b. Edinburgh, Scotland, 5 July...engineering education, physical science. Rankine was the son of David Rankine, an army...various other projects as an apprentice to John MacNeill, a prominent civil engineer...
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Rankine temperature scale
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Rankine temperature scale temperature scale...of -459.67°F. Because the Rankine degree is the same size as the Fahrenheit...the Scottish engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine , who proposed it in 1859. Another...
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Fahrenheit temperature scale
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Dutch physicist Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in 1724. William John Macquorn Rankine used it as the basis of his absolute temperature scale, now called the Rankine temperature scale , in 1859. Although the Fahrenheit...
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