Robert Boyle was born on January 27,1967 at Lismore Castle in Ireland. Boyle was the youngest son of the Great Earl of Cork and Catherine Fenton. He was born into a very large family and had 13 siblings. He was the youngest son and was considered the favorite. Boyle was born into an extremely wealthy family. They lived out the beliefs in their home of the Protestant lifestyle. When he was only 8 years old, his mother died which led to him being sent off to a very prestigious private school called Eton College. At the age of 11, he was taken out of this school and privately tutored by Isaac Marcombes in Geneva. It was quite common during this time period in wealthy families to send their children abroad to study. While Boyle was …show more content…
These areas also included medicine, hydrostatics, and earth science. In 1654, the vacuum pump was invented by Otto von Guericke. During this time, Boyle had met a highly intelligent student at Oxford named Robert Hooke. Together they took the concept of the vacuum pump and devised the famous piece of experimental equipment called the vacuum chamber. Their first great discovery while experimenting with air is now called Boyle’s Law. Boyle’s Law states that if the volume of a gas is decreased, the pressure will increase proportionally. They used a glass tube placing mercury inside to vary the pressure. The air was a fixed weight. He learned that when you increase the pressure on a gas, the volume would shrink. This gas law was the first to be discovered and it took over a hundred years before another one was discovered. With the vacuum chamber, Boyle also figured out that the sound cannot travel through a vacuum. He used a glass jar and a bell for this experiment. He would ring the bell inside the jar using a magnet outside the jar. When he pumped the air out of the jar, the ability to hear the sound of the bell was less and less. At this point, the full implication of the magnetic forces was not realized but it was a very important moment for science. He published his findings in 1660 in a book titled, New Experiments Physico-Mechancall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects. In the book the first controlled experiments were described as well as what happens to reducing the pressure of the air. This book was the result of over three years of experimenting with the air
During the 1780s, I spoke out against the idea of expanding the power of the national government, I was viewed as the leader of the anti-federalists. In 1787, I was elected, along with John Lansing, Jr. and Alexander Hamilton to represent New York at the Philadelphia convention, the goal of this convention being to revise the Articles of Confederation. Both I and Lansing soon left the convention as we felt the real purpose of the convention was to produce a new form of government, not to revise the articles of confederation. Soon after this I wrote a letter to Governor Clinton, the governor of New York. In this letter I gave explicit reasons for my departure from the convention and informed him of my strong opposition to the constitution. I am most famous for writing many essays, under the pseudonym of Brutus, in which I argued federalist ideologies; I began each of my essays opposing these views by addressing these essays to the citizens of New
Charles Joseph Coward, saved 400 jews from Auschwitz after being captured by the Germans as a British soldier. So was Coward really a Coward or not. Charles Joseph Coward was born in England in January 1905. He enrolled in the army and stated in the text “By the time WW2 started in 1939 he was QuarterMaster Battery Sergeant Major. When the Germans attacked the port of Calais in 1940, Coward was captured and made several attempts to escape. He was finally sent to Auschwitz III, the working camp, a couple miles away from Auschwitz the death camp. He saw what the Jews in the other section of the camp went through and couldn’t be a bystander any longer and smuggled 400 of them out of the camp saving the lives that he could. I firmly believe that
Bob Lee was a man of true valor. He has honored his family's heritage for many years. One day Bob was sitting on his porch when he saw the most unusual thing, a whole
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On the cold, snowy evening of March 5th at approximately 9:00 pm, a group of local colonists gather by the Boston Customs House. British Redcoat Private Hugh Montgomery is on duty guarding the Customs House. The group of colonists are angry, and the number of colonists casually start to increase. They begin harassing Private Hugh Montgomery. The local British Officer that night, Captain Thomas Preston order a few of his soldiers to the Customs House to put everything back in order. However, the colonists became more agitated once they saw the soldiers arrive with weapons in their hands. The redcoats advise the colonists to stop their violent actions and scatter immediately. Doing the complete opposite, the colonists grew more violent
When Bobby Adedge was 18 years old, he had already won two Olympic gold medals. By the time he was twenty-two, he had been a well-known goalie on a prestigious professional hockey team. He had married an even more famous supermodel, who had her own budding career as an actress. He was thought to be smart, having invented the first dissolvable hockey puck, which was great for planet Earth and recycling, but not-so-good when hockey games went into overtime, the puck often melting onto the ice before the game was over. His inventor-phase was short-lived.
After Sebastian Hastings has spent a couple weeks in Illyria playing soccer with his new chum, Duke Orsino, we have finally put the puzzle pieces together.
Frederick Fennell was an internationally known composer who, in his career of conducting, conducted the United States Navy Band. He was born on July 2, 1914, in Cleveland, Ohio, and died on December 7, 2004, in Siesta Key, Florida, at the age of ninety.
Sullivan was Auburns quarterback from 1969-1971 and won Auburn's first Heisman in 1971 after setting several school and SEC records while guiding the Tigers to a 9-1 regular season record. (Heisman n.d.), Sullivan was born in Birmingham, Ala., where he attended John Carroll Catholic High School and was a star in three sports. He excelled in football and won an athletic scholarship to Auburn in 1968, where he took over the starting quarterback spot as a sophomore (freshmen were not eligible prior to 1972). He burst onto the college football scene in 1969, throwing for nearly 1,700 yards and 16 touchdowns. As a junior, Sullivan's statistics soared, as he led the nation with 2,856 yards of total offense, including 2,586 passing yards. Along the way, Auburn went 9-2 and ended the season in the Top Ten in the nation. For his
A man named George Montgomery wrote this post. He wrote it in 2003, George was a civil rights advocist
Location of Service: Jacksonville, Texas; Del Monte Pre-Flight School, California; Fort Ord, California; Norman, Oklahoma; Corpus Christi, Texas; El Toro Marine Corps Air Base, California; Shaw Field, Sumter, South Carolina; Daytona Beach, Florida; Okinawa Island (Ryukyu Islands); China: USS Grant; Pacific Theater; China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater
Padraig Harrington was born on August 31, 1971, in Dublin, Ireland. Padraig was raised in a pretty wealthy family with his parents and his four siblings, his brothers Tadhg, Feargal, Fintan, and Columb. Padraig’s father was involved in building a golf course in South Country Dublin called Stackstown. Padraig loved to practice on the golf course with his two brothers, his uncle, and his father all playing off 5 handicaps, and the Stackstown soon became a second home to Padraig. Padraig went to school in Ballyroan Boy’s National School and then to Colaiste Eanna Secondary School. He played his first amateur tournament in 1987, the Connaught Boy’s Championship. He got to the finals, but was beaten on the 22nd after losing a golf ball.
"Day-o! Day-ay-ay-o! Daylight come and we wan' go home," - sung the King of Calypso. Someone may have heard these lyrics and may not know who the singer is. Harold George Bellanfanti Jr, also known as Harry Belafonte is the vocalist behind this song. He’s also a civil rights activist and actor. He was born on March 1st, 1927 in New York City. He was the only child to Mr and Mrs Harold George and Melvine Belafonte. His father came from the caribbean island of Martinique and worked as a chef for the British Royal Navy. His Jamaican mother worked as a dressmaker and house cleaner. At age nine, Harry’s mom sent him to live with her relatives in Jamaica. He later returned to New York and attended George Washington High School. His difficult childhood led him to drop out of high school and joined the U.S. Navy for two years. After leaving the military in 1945, Harry worked at many different places.
Ed Hardy is a retailer that sells street wear for both men and women, inspired by the work of iconic tattoo artist Don Ed Hardy. (Edhardyclothinges, 2016)
Robert Boyle was born at Lismore Castle, Munster on 25 January 1627, the fourteenth child and seventh son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork. Robert Boyle was educated mainly by tutors and himself. He had no formal university education but read widely and made contact with many of the most important natural philosophers of his day, both at home and abroad. He had independent means which enabled him to have his own laboratory and to support religious charities. He was active in the ‘Invisible College’, an informal body devoted to the ‘new philosophy’ which in 1663 became the Royal Society, of which he was a Council member. He moved to Oxford in 1654, where he set up a laboratory with Robert Hooke as his assistant