This Month.. That Year….
December 1571:
German astronomer Johann Kepler discovered elliptical orbits.
December 1621:
Galileo perfected his invention of the telescope.
December 1743:
German chemist Martin H. Klaproth discovered uranium.
December 1773:
George Cayley founded the science of aerodynamics and invented gliders.
December 1792:
English inventor Charles Babbage invented the calculating machine.
December 1813:
Irish chemist and physicist Thomas Andrews discovered the ozone.
December 1818:
Physicist James Prescott Joule discovered the principle of conservation of energy.
December 1852:
Scientist Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity and won the Nobel Prize in 1903.
December 1856:
English physicist Joseph John Thomson discovered the electron and won the Nobel Prize in 1906.
December 1879:
Thomas Edison patented a magnetoelectric machine.
December 1906:
Peter Carl Goldmark developed colour TV and LP records.
December 1924:
John Backus invented FORTRAN, a computer language.
December 1952:
Larry Bartlett invented a photographic printer
-Team ScienceNow
